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Tools and Uses => Hunting => Topic started by: paulb3 on March 10, 2014, 12:14:21 PM

Title: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: paulb3 on March 10, 2014, 12:14:21 PM
Younger bull taken this past Saturday.  80 yard shot thru the ohia forest.
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: 338KID on March 10, 2014, 12:32:09 PM
Nice that's the best eating . The free range ones
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: NoScade on March 11, 2014, 09:06:22 AM
Damn imagine packing that out by yourself :shake:
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: 308gunner on March 11, 2014, 09:34:21 AM
Younger bull taken this past Saturday.  80 yard shot thru the ohia forest.
Nice one!
Is this what they call a Vancouver Bull?
My dad got a huge one longtime ago in the '70s on a private property on the Big Island.
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: paulb3 on March 11, 2014, 09:59:54 AM
Yeah this is the 3rd time that I'll be eating some "free-range/forest" cattle meat.  Usually just make hamburger and stew meat.  Think we got close to 160-180 pounds off of that one, three full pillow cases and one half full, luckily we were close to the road about 100 yards thru the mud where we were hunting them.  You would think that something that large in the forest would be easy to find but to be honest they don't make a lot of noise.  One of the other guys in our group got one that must have been pushing 700 lbs.  In all out group got 5 and we got out about 800-900 pound of meat.  I'm not sure what the breed was but they all look like poi dog mixes in there browns, whites, black, mix black/white, mix brown/white, etc. 
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: dustoff003 on March 11, 2014, 12:47:16 PM
That looks like a Herford. I raised two of them when I was in 4-H as a youth. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford_(cattle)(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/12/e8ynujeg.jpg)
Herford Bull
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: bass monkey on March 11, 2014, 03:53:30 PM
Were you hunting private property?
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: Bigkahuna808 on March 11, 2014, 04:21:11 PM
Can we hunt cows on public land?   Pretty sweet if you took it on private land.  I recall parker ranch having hunting be ranch hands of wild cows
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: paulb3 on March 12, 2014, 08:27:34 AM
DLNR lottery hunt up in the Hilo Forest Reserve.  So it was on public land but you needed to get a permit to hunt the cattle because they are not defined as a game animal. 
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: Bigkahuna808 on March 12, 2014, 11:17:39 AM
Sweet job on the hunt.  What caliber gun combo you used? 
I used to live in hilo and only heard of thrme mythical bull hunts.  Now im intrested in trying for a permjt for one.
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: 308gunner on March 12, 2014, 12:13:30 PM
Here's an article I found.

http://hog-blog.com/vancouver-bull-hunting-in-hawaii/ (http://hog-blog.com/vancouver-bull-hunting-in-hawaii/)

Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: paulb3 on March 12, 2014, 01:00:51 PM
If you get in on the lottery you get access from DHHL side which is a lot closer to where the cattle are.  If you are coming from saddle road 16 mile etc. You got about 2.5 miles of every terrain imaginable to walk through i.e. not fun at all.  Morita trail is well marked and is on the topo maps I took that trail once and it was something I would have to think really hard about doing again.

I used a .308, in the group that shot cattle we had 30-06, .270, 30-30 and 12g slug.  I don't recommend the 12g slug too much damage to the meat maybe it was just the shot placement but we found bits of lead all over.  The DLNR people mentioned that one group used compound bows too.
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: 338KID on March 12, 2014, 03:58:49 PM
A few years ago my grandma up in waimea asked me to come up and take care of a few donkeys running around their ranch . Thank goodness it was flat terrain
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: Barrett808 on November 11, 2014, 03:53:17 AM
Here's a pic of my buddy with his cow shot with his custom muzzlerloader.
Taken on state lottery hunt.
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: NoScade on November 11, 2014, 07:33:58 AM
Here's a pic of my buddy with his cow shot with his custom muzzlerloader.
Taken on state lottery hunt.

I need to get one of those Pac-Nor barrels for my encore... :shaka:
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: Barrett808 on November 11, 2014, 07:44:13 PM
You know it... :thumbsup:  Pacnor and pre-eteching your bullet  no sabot is the ultimate  in muzzle loading. Surpasses my 458 win mag loads. Almost matches my 416 Rem  mag hand loads!
 :shaka:
Now that's stopping power. . :sleeping:.. :wacko:
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: oldfart on November 11, 2014, 11:32:57 PM
Ooh yeah. Nice catch....

Beef, it's whats for dinner!
Title: Re: Pipi Ahiu
Post by: Barrett808 on November 12, 2014, 03:03:44 AM
Pipi cow la.... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: