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  1. Matki15

    2024 Turkey Thread

    Thank you! This one is just some sewing thread from hobby lobby, if you want to get fancy with it rod wrapping thread from places like Mudhole.com has all kinds of options and tools to help
  2. Matki15

    2024 Turkey Thread

    Got around to turning my bird into another wingbone, came out decent. Need to invest in a turner and start using fishing rod finish epoxy but at least after some tuning it sounds great
  3. Matki15

    2024 Turkey Thread

    Probably gobbled 40 times between first light and the 30 minutes before the shot
  4. Matki15

    2024 Turkey Thread

    SE LA here too, so far you haven’t missed much on early morning scouting trips. Only one gobble heard in the last few days over here. I’ve had more luck finding birds 8-12 in open fields or clearcuts. If I can find them like that I’ll try and stick with them the rest of the day to hopefully hear...
  5. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    If you’re trying to get pigs in to a new bait site, fermented corn always worked well. 50lbs of corn, 6 pack of cheap beer and a couple 2 liters of strawberry Fanta would always work great for me. If the pigs are already used to an area having food plain corn works just as well for cheaper
  6. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    They had a real problem though, this was normal on every game camera for a while before I started
  7. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    Some leases do but not many. I had a similar deal for a couple years, full membership on a 3000 acre lease in exchange for shooting and trapping hogs, coyotes and coons. That deal ended once other members decided it was fun to shoot them, don’t get me wrong it’s fun but I was taking out a couple...
  8. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    On private land it is open year round with any weapon. Night hunting allowed as well. That’s when the 6.8 with night vision comes out, but for public land it’s one of those crappy things we have to deal with in Louisiana. It’s not horrible though, that TSS handles them pretty well out to...
  9. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    6.8 spc with 120 grain SSTs, one of the best hunting calibers for an AR15 in my opinion. Over 200 hogs with it so far and have only lost 2
  10. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    Another old one, back from when I was getting full access to a deer lease in exchange for killing hogs. It was a full moon night in the beginning of March. According to the journals I’ve kept March is always the best time for killing lone boars. The wind was completely wrong for the box stand I...
  11. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    @brydan right now I’m using Apex #2 TSS, the 1 1/2 ounce load. Depending on how far I can see in the places I’m hunting I’ll either use my factory modified for closer range shots (out to 50 yards) or a Carlsons sporting clays extra full .690 constriction (out to 75-80 yards)
  12. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    For solo hogs it works great, on groups I’ve found it’s better to do a large loop around them to get in front of the general direction they were headed that way the group stays together, leading to multiple shots. They never run far, they have almost no natural predators besides us, a few black...
  13. Matki15

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    I’ll go ahead and repost this picture from the other thread but add the story as well. On one of the WMAs around central Louisiana for the first time and picked a spot on ONX. I did my usual loops and zigzags through good looking areas and the amount of sign was impressive. Droppings were...
  14. Matki15

    Hog hunting Help

    That would be incorrect, the only NT size limit listed would be for dove, limiting those to #6 or smaller. Squirrels and rabbits do not have those restrictions
  15. Matki15

    Hog hunting Help

    For those in Louisiana or Mississippi dealing with the “incidental take” laws, look into tss in larger shot sizes. It’s expensive but worth it. I’ve been killing hogs out to 75 yards with my 870 and 3” #2s. Full penetration even on the big hogs. Hate to throw out the “game changer” phrase, but...
  16. Matki15

    Hog hunting Help

    Louisiana public is open right now, incidental take only though
  17. Matki15

    2024 Turkey Thread

    Can’t wait for it! Have a couple out of state trips planned, my latest turkey gun is built and ready for patterning, and finished up the wingbones from my fall bird
  18. Matki15

    2023-2024 Waterfowl Thread

    Either carry em in with a wader bag or get a set of tough breathables for walk in hunts. Won’t go back to neoprene after getting a good pair of breathables. A fishing rod works, I’ll use my mojo pole if I can get close to it but need some extra reach. But with my kayak I don’t have to worry...
  19. Matki15

    The Official Ground Hunting Thread

    Went up to Missouri for 10 days about a week ago, first day up there me and my brother in law jumped a lot of deer on the access trail 300 yards from the parking lot. After a full day of hunting deep and running into other hunters I circled back and set up on the edge of the trail between a...
  20. Matki15

    2023 Turkey Hunting Thread

    2023 fall bird. First bow bird
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