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4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 04:09 AM
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Hirogen
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My youngest son (15 years old) and I cleaned out one of my work trucks and than loaded it with gear and headed down from our home in Ontario to your great state to hunt hogs. We packed 2 crossbows, 4 rifles and 240 rounds of ammunition so that we would have lots of options. We left on Thursday March 12 and crossed at Sarnia at the south end of Lake Huron. Crossing with the rifles was pretty easy as I just declared the rifles handed them my form 6 import permit approved by ATF and they entered the permit into the computer and sent us on our way. We were never asked to show them anything. We took 2 days and stopped in Azle Texas until Sunday to visit friends from another forum and participate in an Excalibur Crossbow festival called "Texfest." Festival was fun with good food, good people and lots of opportunity to tune our crossbows. I also won a new Tombstone case for my Matrix, some broad heads and two spare strings and needless to say we were the only foreigners at the festival. Next stop was the gulf coast where we relaxed for 2 days and also toured the NASA Johnson Space Center south of Houston. When my son was 11 he entered a NASA contest to paint the future of space travel and won second place in his age group. His painting is on display at NASA so we wanted to see it. This is an image of the painting: After the gulf we headed west to the hill country about 50 mile northwest of San Antonio. Here we met up with a family friend who arranged for us to hunt hog. We hunted for 2.5 days and did a combination of walk and stalk, baited feeders with blinds, and pushing. My son scored a nice boar on one of the pushes by shooting this beast while it was on the run at about 120 yards. He was shooting a .308 loaded with 165 grain accubonds. Hog ran about 50 yards further after the shot and tipped over dead. Close up of cutters: I managed to score this guy with the crossbow at 32 yards later the same day We hit the road on Friday morning after packing the field dressed hogs in about 1000 lbs of ice in the box of the truck. Made it home Saturday night at 10:30 pm after driving 1893 miles in 2 days. Trip total mileage was just shy of 4300 miles. Crossing back into Canada was easy as well. We just told them where we had been, what we had, and showed them a copy of the ATF form and they waved us on our way and never asked to look at anything. Hogs are at the butcher's thawing out so they can be processed. We arrived home Saturday night to temps of 0F and by Sunday morning they were pretty much froze solid. All and all it was a great holiday and one we will remember for a long time.
Last edited by Hirogen; 03/24/15 05:41 AM.
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
[Re: Hirogen]
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03/24/15 11:23 AM
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What a great trip for a couple of road warriors Congrats to your son on the NASA painting and to you both on the boars, nice cutters
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
[Re: Hirogen]
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03/24/15 11:57 AM
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Thanks for sharing. Looks like it was a fun time!
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 11:57 AM
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Awesome
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 11:58 AM
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 12:19 PM
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Awesome trip
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 12:21 PM
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Wow, and I thought my 187 mile commute to hunt was a long one! You son will never, ever forget this trip. You did good, Dad.
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 12:50 PM
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Looks like a fun trip and great memory for you and your son. Those hogs have some nice cutters on them. Thanks for visiting our great state
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 12:59 PM
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Great trip! Nice pigs too!
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 01:04 PM
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Now that's a great adventure!!! Congratulations on your success and also the best spring break story that I've heard.
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 01:18 PM
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Now that's a great adventure!!! Congratulations on your success and also the best spring break story that I've heard.
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 01:20 PM
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Wow my tongues hanging out after reading your story. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 01:55 PM
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Sounds like a great time. Glad you got to make it to Texas
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 02:04 PM
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Great job! Glad it came together for you
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 02:51 PM
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 04:26 PM
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 05:07 PM
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/24/15 11:20 PM
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/25/15 12:16 AM
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What a great story. Your Son is quite an artist too. Glad y'all had a good trip.
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/25/15 02:27 AM
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Sounds like great memories were made there!
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/25/15 02:38 AM
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Great trip !! I'd love to make the same trip with my son someday except we'd go from Texas to Canada to go fishing !
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/25/15 04:27 AM
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/25/15 10:49 AM
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Great times you will remember forever
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/25/15 04:12 PM
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Sounds like a great father / son road trip Congrats to you both and glad you boys had a good time in
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Re: 4300 mile road trip - Spring Break
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03/25/15 04:23 PM
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Heck of a trip!
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