Howie1968
40 Cal.
ive been here almost 12 years. our property adjoins Alabama Creek management Area which is a part of Davey Crocket. property is 2 miles from the Neches river. ill tell you've ive been incredibly blessed, bowhunting got me my start in hunting hogs where I quickly gaine access to many properties. Here in texas once you begin friendships with landowners because you've taken hogs. take them a quarter or 1/2 of a hog make sausage split it with them offer fence repair you have a friend for life. one of the things that helped me the most is I became friends with Kevin of Texas boars. he was on Monste rquest him and another friend Tim Hicks. Kevin built night hunting lights I was on a competitor night bowhunting lights and I was on and over the hog scent testing for tinks 69. tink is a close personal friend who I met through a wounded warrior program. over the years been on a lot of hunting shows as a hunter/guide in 2007 I nearly lost my life for a second time first time Iraq 2nd time MRSA of the brain, I recovered and made a comeback video. from 2007 to 2012 I spent every extra minute hunting hogs. having raised my 2 daughters as a single father we always had meat. neighter has time to hunt much they've blessed me with 8 grandkids all are just a tad young to take night hoghunting. 2012 I got sick again a brain tumor, by the grace of god I pulled through! go back to 2016 just turned 50 still hunting hogs as much as possible. I hunted a place called Alazan Bayou WMA it is muzzleloader, archery or shotgun only. its only about 15 miles from my home and borders the Angelina river and is part of the Angelina national forest. that day in 2016 I was hunting with a friend and I could not get 50 yards from a hog no matter what I did. you can bait 1st day after duck season ends up until august 31st. I never baited id always get on a trail and wait them out. but that day in 2016 I attempted stalking. for the first time I got real frustrated. I sat down and thought I need a muzzleloader!!! let me go back38 years. I was a young poor kid growing up in Northern Indiana I had a couple unmentionables but I kept going into the local gunshop. the man there was always nice one day something caught my eye. it was a long gun double triggers. I needed something to hunt deer the next year I asked the man what it was and could I seen t. I think he detected how much I liked the muzzleloader. he said how would you like to earn this .50 caliber mountain rifle I was so shocked. he said go get a note from your mom that you will be working through the summer. the mans name was Sam Cable. he said show up at 10am daily and don't be late!! I was there at 830 the next day. he mentored me how to clean it, load it what accessories I needed at the end of the summer, I had spent that whole summer cleaning guns taking trash out . at the end of the day the last hour he closed shop and preceded to teach me know all he knows. at the end of summer I walked out with my smoke pole 2 lbs of powder a couple hundred roundballs patches cleaning stuff ETC
that very next year I killed a fat dow with the .50 caliber mountain rifle. that year my mom went to prison no dad around no direction. at that point I went and stayed with my aunt in Watertown NY Canada was 12 miles away and fort drum (home of the 10th mountain division which specializes in mountain and artic warefare. I received a wrestling scholarship to Syracuse university to wrestle long story short I lasted 2 years in college. that was 1986 after college I had no direction so I joined the US military.
enough of history on how I got here after my hunt at alazan I went online and found this forumn got great advice on all my questions I ordered a lyman deerstalker .54, since than over 20 muzzleloaders, so much enjoyment hunting shooting and sharing. I can say ive been very blessed
that very next year I killed a fat dow with the .50 caliber mountain rifle. that year my mom went to prison no dad around no direction. at that point I went and stayed with my aunt in Watertown NY Canada was 12 miles away and fort drum (home of the 10th mountain division which specializes in mountain and artic warefare. I received a wrestling scholarship to Syracuse university to wrestle long story short I lasted 2 years in college. that was 1986 after college I had no direction so I joined the US military.
enough of history on how I got here after my hunt at alazan I went online and found this forumn got great advice on all my questions I ordered a lyman deerstalker .54, since than over 20 muzzleloaders, so much enjoyment hunting shooting and sharing. I can say ive been very blessed
