Re: Hog Hunt
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:11 pm
Me and a buddy hunted Chappy's last week. Successful and enjoyable hunt.
$250 each for the hunt. $100 ($50 each) for a night in the two-person bunk cabin.
Set up on stands before daylight. It was a full moon; we saw one nice hog riding out to the stands but neither of us saw anything once we were on the stands. The deal is, if you don't get a shot by about 0830 they come get you and load up the dogs on the buggy.
Rode over to an adjacent area and turned the dogs loose. First hog (young boar) was tackled by the dogs within 15 minutes. They got him by the ears and held him until we got there. Bret & Doug pulled him out of his bed and got the dogs off him while Doug wrestled him to the ground. Gave us the choice of shooting him there or letting him go as a shooting on the run. My friend dispatched it at point blank range with his 357. 30 minutes later the dogs dug up a young sow for me. My first point blank shot to the head missed - I forgot about the nearly 3" offset of the lower third cowitnessed red dot on my 6.5 Grendel SBR. Second shot did the trick.
Bret & Doug hung, skinned, and quartered the hogs for us. Put them on ice in the cooler and we were ready to head out before lunch. I had gotten ice the day before at the Dollar General up the road - the ice machine at the self-storage place up the road was only accepting cash.
We each tipped them $80 for the extra work they put into getting us on our hogs. Typically I'd go $50-$60 for a $250 hunt.
We had ribeyes the night before at the Speckled Perch in Okeechobee. Don't let the rundown roadhouse look of the place scare you off - the steaks were excellent and reasonably priced.
Meat is now at Al's Wild Meat Processing in Riverview. Sausage, snack sticks, and stew meat will be ready in a week or two.
I highly recommend Chappy's for an excellent guided hog hunting experience and will be back again.
$250 each for the hunt. $100 ($50 each) for a night in the two-person bunk cabin.
Set up on stands before daylight. It was a full moon; we saw one nice hog riding out to the stands but neither of us saw anything once we were on the stands. The deal is, if you don't get a shot by about 0830 they come get you and load up the dogs on the buggy.
Rode over to an adjacent area and turned the dogs loose. First hog (young boar) was tackled by the dogs within 15 minutes. They got him by the ears and held him until we got there. Bret & Doug pulled him out of his bed and got the dogs off him while Doug wrestled him to the ground. Gave us the choice of shooting him there or letting him go as a shooting on the run. My friend dispatched it at point blank range with his 357. 30 minutes later the dogs dug up a young sow for me. My first point blank shot to the head missed - I forgot about the nearly 3" offset of the lower third cowitnessed red dot on my 6.5 Grendel SBR. Second shot did the trick.
Bret & Doug hung, skinned, and quartered the hogs for us. Put them on ice in the cooler and we were ready to head out before lunch. I had gotten ice the day before at the Dollar General up the road - the ice machine at the self-storage place up the road was only accepting cash.
We each tipped them $80 for the extra work they put into getting us on our hogs. Typically I'd go $50-$60 for a $250 hunt.
We had ribeyes the night before at the Speckled Perch in Okeechobee. Don't let the rundown roadhouse look of the place scare you off - the steaks were excellent and reasonably priced.
Meat is now at Al's Wild Meat Processing in Riverview. Sausage, snack sticks, and stew meat will be ready in a week or two.
I highly recommend Chappy's for an excellent guided hog hunting experience and will be back again.