[ExSoldier]

The deer and hogs in Florida are quite small.

Pint sized hogs, huh? Tell that to the daughter of a buddy of mine, another NRA Instructor. On her 16th birthday she waded hip deep into a swamp and busted loose with four shots from a Model 629 44 and dropped one of those tiny hogs. It later fed over thirty of her friends at her sweet sixteen. That tusker went over 400 pounds before being dressed. A local restaurant in a pretty upscale hotel here in the suburb of Miami known as Coral Gables cooked it up for us. I was stuffed for days on that pig. Damn it was good. So if a 400 pound pig is small, can you tell me what size ranks as medium or large? Wild hogs are ranked as dangerous game, btw. They regularly tear hunters up with those wicked tusks. They'll rip you from ankle to crotch in a heartbeat.

[Tarpon]

Most go under 400 pounds. We hunted out of Steinhatchee and Gulf Hammock, we found the occasional 300 pounder. Been run off more than once by a big hog. You are right, they will try and run you down, and get quite mean when you stumble on them. You get between the mother and the little ones and there is going to be trouble. But quite a few hogs we shot were under 150 or so. Never caught up to me ... We hunted mostly out of tree stands along the trails. I used to have an old .30 Ruger that I used. One heck of a bang LOL. But ammo was cheap.

When we hunted deer out in the everglades off the half track, the deer were quite small, 100-120 pounds.

That was the good old days. Most of the areas I used to hunt are closed now, overrun with houses or way overbooked. So now I fish off the seawall out back.