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Jim, here's Abby making a fashion statement pointing a woodcock while wearing her Hard Core Hog Dog Bay vest. Twice as expensive as the Cabelas/LCS, but it's brass buckled and Kevlar. It is in its 5th season without significant wear. It has survived briars and razorwire. The LCS wore out in a season and wouldn't protect her from a wild hog. This one will. Willa also wears one. Gil Wild hogs? How do your prepare for them, Gil? Carry a few slugs in your pocket?
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Wild hogs? How do your prepare for them, Gil? Carry a few slugs in your pocket? Treb, a slug would work of course, but an encounter with a hog is usually over before you can change loads. A combination gun is just right though. Mine is a .43 Mauser/12ga:
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Come on now Geo, you just can't have a hammer gun tucked away like that in a picture, give us the particulars. Now that's what I call a good days work, Fantastic shooting Geo!!!!!
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Not my picture Treb, but it is my gun. It is a Sauer with the rifle on the right side and the front trigger is a french siecher which when activated provides a hair trigger for the rifle. The .43 Mauser is an obsolete German military round and I have to scrounge old Canadian loads for the gun or have a custom reloader make them up for me. I don't reload anymore. The rifle barrel is damascus on this gun and the 12ga barrel is steel. My eyesight has got to the point I couldn't use the leaf rear sights and had to install a modern optic type sight in the rib...Geo
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Thanks Geo, beautiful Sauer. Stationed in Charleston SC for 2 weeks reserve their deer season started early and ended late. I asked what they used and it seemed everyone said they carried a shotgun mostly an Ithaca Model 37. I questioned why all the shotguns for deer and their response was, "The snakes, bud, all the snakes." I guess now its the boars and the snakes. Interesting how each State presents it own challenges and dangers and usually overcome by a big frickin shotgun.
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Treb, here's a little better picture of the Sauer combination gun with a not very well done wood refinish. Nothing fancy, but about right for carrying through a canebreak. Good for anything that happens, from a woodcock flush to a skunk-ape. The game&gun picture doesn't show the gun very well...Geo
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Treb, I don't carry slugs, etc. Since the first incident with hogs several years ago, I pull the dogs out of the area. Both dogs are good about coming when I whistle. Fortunately the strain of wild hog here is feral domestic and not the Eurasian Wild Boar which is highly aggressive and reputed for dog killing where it resides. The vests offer protection for briars, barbed wire and other hazards such as stick-ups. A buddy lost his lab to a cut off sapling which impaled him when he came down on it while running during a hunt. Abby was saved from a coil of razor wire she hit running full speed in the woods on a military base. She went from 60 to 0 in a split second when she hit the abandoned wire. Gil
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This season was a little rough and most of the good luck of decades past was paid for this year. As I neared the end of the season birdless due to a series of screw-ups and missed opportunities, Geo came to the rescue by providing the opportunity for this fine bird on the next to last day of the season Saturday. 25-30 steps with 13/16 oz. of #9 Tungsten Super Shot. Thanks, Geo. Gil Mark Larson “tattooed” the .410 Yildiz’s stock:
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Good job, Gil! Yes, I had an off season as well
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Nice Gobbler Gil! I'm glad your trip up to the middle GA hill country paid off for you and appreciate the fact that your friend tagged one of my aggravating coyotes even if he did not get a bird. You and your friend are excellent guests and we'll try to do it again next season...Geo
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