testing the water

Hey guys, I have an offer from a game ranch here in Michigan to put on a "primitive" pig hunt, two or three days, one big meal, butchering and lodging included, but actually the lodging is optional in lieu of white canvass or diamonds or whatever. Price would be around $450.00 for a 250-300 pound pig, stalking or ground blinds, and Doug heartily encourages people with traditional ML's...in fact, he said that the guys who come out to hunt his place with smoothbores and flint rifles are usually better hunters than the modern guys...

Hell, I could have told him that...

Anyway, I won't post the name of the place or anything--don't want to make this a commercial--but I would like to know if there is any interest in this.

In case you're wondering, these aren't pen raised petting zoo feral pigs. These are eurpoean boar that have no real human interaction until you drop the hammer on them, so this will be a REAL hunt.

let me know what you guys think...

 

[Halftail]

let me know what you guys think...

I think Pork tastes good! ::

 

let me know what you guys think...

I think Pork tastes good! ::

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[Ron LaClair]

If it doesn't conflict with any other hunts I have planned I'd be interested. :front:

 

[merdean]

$450.00 for a couple of hams? :youcrazy: Are you kidding? :: Of course I would love to go. Just don't have the cash. Unless you want to pay for mine? Air fare too? Just a thought!
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$450.00 for a couple of hams? :youcrazy: Are you kidding? :: Of course I would love to go. Just don't have the cash. Unless you want to pay for mine? Air fare too? Just a thought!
:crackup:

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Okay, now that that's over...

Actually, I don't know what the price of meat is like where everyone else is at, but $450.00 for around 160-200 pounds of meat ain't a bad price. I had some ribs from one of his bigger boars the other day and it was great. tenderloins are awesome, too.

Anyway, like I said, it was mostly about testing the water to see what sort of response it would get.

 

[WV_Hillbilly]

I would love to take on a "European Boar" with my 16ga... of couse it would have been more thrills to do it in Europe about 250yrs ago... :hmm: I even recently found a new .648 mould to try out.

Alas, the problem for me too, is the finances. If it were a few years ago, OR maybe a few years from now. But just can't swing it. Always seem to get these opportunities at the "wrong point" in time, wrong for me, that is. It's definitely NOT that the price is too high, I think that the $$$ are commensurate with the projected results. It's just that I don't have the b-b-b-b-bucks to spare right now, with school tuition for my kids due. :cry:

:thanks: I appreciate that you are looking out for things like that--for those of us that enjoy hunting with these antiquated means of propelling +400gr rounded chunks of lead.

Maybe another time, another place...
WV_Hillbilly :front:

 

[Protrucker]

I'd go, in a heart beat if it wasn't so far away. It's as much of a time thing as a money thing for me. There is a similar place that runs similar hunts only about an hour & a half from me though. Someday I'm going to go there........if I can ever have both the time & the money at the same time.

 

[cayugad]

What part of Michigan is this ranch in? Are we talking the southern end or the upper UP? The price does not sound all that bad for a European boar hunt.

 

Thanks for the offer and the price isn't bad at all. For me right now it's all about time. The business is growing nicely so hopefully next year I will have time to accept such an invitation and return the favor. I've never been to Michigan and would love to see it. Thanks again.

Vic

 

What part of Michigan is this ranch in? Are we talking the southern end or the upper UP? The price does not sound all that bad for a European boar hunt.

Just outside of Jackson, which is near the middle of the state on I-94, if that helps.

Actually, it's a great price, considering that it will be a two or three day hunt with a nice big meal thrown in, we get to camp, hunt, and take home some SERIOUS meat. I'm going to talk to the owner tomorrow to firm things up--starting to sound like there is some real interest.

Ought to be serious fun--we'll run a big piece on it in the issue after the hunt...smiling faces, smoking guns, big ol' boars....

Groovy man...