Brittany Reed of Marietta, Mississippi said that this little piggy took its last dirt nap. She did a great job of killing this nasty old hog in our great wild Mississippi outdoors!
My congratulations to Brittany! Way to go in eradicating this BIG HOG! Way to go girl!
Making awesome memories in our great wild and wonderful Mississippi outdoors. My congratulations to both of the young hunters.
I was out by 7:55 p.m. Some deer were there but ran off when I walked up. Then some javelinas came in and a short while later they all ran off. I looked to my right and could see a boar coming in from the other pasture since there is enough moonlight to see. He flitted around but would never settle down and ran off. I told myself that some other hog could come in so I waited. Sure enough, a short time later I could see the shadow of a hog. He finally came in and I really wanted to shoot him in the lungs but he presented a headshot so that is what I took. Down he went but he was still breathing although I knew he would not get back up. I waited a few minutes and then put one point-blank in his head and he did his death dance and was done. He was a neat looking hog, had some light coloring underneath. That makes 13 for the year and 183 in total. Awesome! I shot him at 8:45 p.m.
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) just passed through Vicksburg Tuesday. This ship is designed to transport rockets. What an awesome sight to see coming through my hometown on the Mississippi River. Thanks to Jim Murphy for taking this picture.
Steven Albright of Starkville, Mississippi spent the morning recently enjoying a cool cloudy day teaching his cute daughters how to catch a catfish on the Tennesse Tombigbee. He said that they played hard and fished hard. Here are some cute pictures he took of his daughters in our great wild Mississippi outdoors! Making precious memories!
Steven said that this catfish bit off more than it could chew!
My congratulation to these two new Fishermans!
My Facebook friend, Kareen Beinhauer who just shot Hog #182 and 12th for the year so far. Here is her story in her own words from the Hog Queen herself of Alpine, Texas!
I'm back in from sitting out and I figured I wouldn’t see anything. The usual javelinas came in but all of a sudden they ran off. A few seconds later a boar wandered in so I slowly put my earplugs in and took my safety off. I thought about taking a lung shot but he offered me a perfect headshot which I took and he went down. 182 total, 12th for the year which I didn't think I would even get to, Yay!
I went to drag that hog off and took my measuring tape with me because on a hog hunting page somebody posted a picture of a chart. You measure the hog right behind the front legs and run your tape around the hog. The measurement will tell you how much they weigh within ten pounds. Before I measured I guessed he weighed about 250 and sure enough, he measured 45 inches which is 250. What a handy thing to have and now I will know how much they weigh without Roy having to bring the backhoe over.
Stephanie and Kenric Ladner of Hancock County, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, young son is holding an apple snail and said in the 39 years they had never found a snail this big in the freshwater of the Jourdan River and found two of them.
One had eggs recently. Apple snails are opportunistic feeders that consume a variety of aquatic vegetation, fruits, and vegetable, algae, remains of a decaying organism, and other snail eggs. Because of damage to crops, the channeled apple snails are listed as one of the world's worst invaders.
There are millions of them in the Louisiana swamps and in south Florida. Kill everyone you can and the only way to do that is to scrap the eggs into water and they will die. This is another non-native that should be reported and/or destroyed.
My congratulations to Seth on a job well done during our MS dove season and I'm sure his great grandfather would be so proud.
My very first 8-point buck taken on New Year's Eve '89 at Brown's Point Hunting and Fishing Club on Kings Point Island, located north of Vicksburg, MS. It weighed 190lbs. I have it mounted and hanging on my wall. A very proud deer hunter in our wild and wonderful Mississippi outdoors!
This is the very first alligator hunt at the famous Christmas Place Plantation Hunting Club on the edge of the MS Delta where I hunt every year. Berney Howell organized it and they caught two. My hunting buddy Rex Howell of Deer Camp Blog sent me these two pictures of the alligators. The camp has a 40-acre lake on 2,500 acres of hunting land. My congratulations to all the guys at the camp on a successful hunt in our great wild and wonderful Mississippi outdoors.
Berney Howell is on far-right and I don't know the other hunters.
It was a great opening morning in north Mississippi for Tim and Cameron Adams bagging Canadian Geese with hunting for migratory game birds closing on September 30th. The daily bag limit is 5. It will open back up November 13-29; December 4-6; December 9-January 31st. My congratulations to both Tim and Cameron in our great wild and wonderful Mississippi outdoors! Way to go guys!
