So we are nearing the end of deer season here, and I have been pushing the brush with no luck all season. One little buck is all I have seen, and I have seen him so much he has earned a nick name that is not safe for sensitive ears. Lol.
Last night I decided to hog hunt instead, freezer is getting a bit low, and I have a sausage recipe I want to try. Lol
Well its currently grape harvest, so the hogs are raping the vineyards. Not much else for them to eat right now thanks to the drought. So knowing where they were heading, I picked a good spot to watch the feeder canyons where the hogs would travel through and sat down to wait.
2 tarantula, a gopher snake, 2 does, and 2 football sized piglets later, the sun was set and light was short I decided to go back to the truck. I hike off the mountain side and all the way back down to the truck. I tossed the *** 223 in the seat and stepped to the back of the truck to take a leak before driving home. I unzipped and looked out at the countryside (i like a view, what can i say?), 75yds away I can a eyeball and an ear staring at me from behind a tree. It never fails, something always shows up mid-pee! Not sure what it was standing out there, I take my time and finish up, grab the gun off the seat and lean on the back of the cab.
I'll be damned if I can't make out a snout!
A 62gr ttsx at 3250fps hit him an inch behind and and inch below the ear. DRT. No kicking or twitching.
Cool.
I hopped in the truck, drove around the fence and copse of trees, and stopped. Oh boy. He's a bit bigger than I expected. Having a freshly fused neck, fake shoulder, and a buggered lower back, I don't like lifting heavy things and he qualified!
Got lucky there was a good deep ditch near by, so I tied him to the bumper and drug him to the edge of the ditch, pulled the truck into the ditch and rolled him into the bed. No lifting!
Scale puts him between 260&265lbs.
Loin and bacon slab
Last night I decided to hog hunt instead, freezer is getting a bit low, and I have a sausage recipe I want to try. Lol
Well its currently grape harvest, so the hogs are raping the vineyards. Not much else for them to eat right now thanks to the drought. So knowing where they were heading, I picked a good spot to watch the feeder canyons where the hogs would travel through and sat down to wait.
2 tarantula, a gopher snake, 2 does, and 2 football sized piglets later, the sun was set and light was short I decided to go back to the truck. I hike off the mountain side and all the way back down to the truck. I tossed the *** 223 in the seat and stepped to the back of the truck to take a leak before driving home. I unzipped and looked out at the countryside (i like a view, what can i say?), 75yds away I can a eyeball and an ear staring at me from behind a tree. It never fails, something always shows up mid-pee! Not sure what it was standing out there, I take my time and finish up, grab the gun off the seat and lean on the back of the cab.
I'll be damned if I can't make out a snout!
A 62gr ttsx at 3250fps hit him an inch behind and and inch below the ear. DRT. No kicking or twitching.
Cool.
I hopped in the truck, drove around the fence and copse of trees, and stopped. Oh boy. He's a bit bigger than I expected. Having a freshly fused neck, fake shoulder, and a buggered lower back, I don't like lifting heavy things and he qualified!
Got lucky there was a good deep ditch near by, so I tied him to the bumper and drug him to the edge of the ditch, pulled the truck into the ditch and rolled him into the bed. No lifting!
Scale puts him between 260&265lbs.
Loin and bacon slab
