A friend asked if I would take her son hog hunting for Christmas. We made arrangements for a Friday hunt. Guess what? A nasty front blew in! I really didn’t expect to see much as the temp dropped 30 degrees, the wind was blowing 20-30 mph and it was raining lightly and threatening to storm. I told them I didn’t expect to see very many, but we’d get out and try it and if we didn’t see any in a few hours we’d try for another day with better weather. Well I was wrong! Shhhh don’t tell my wife, she thinks I’m always right.
I picked Hunter and his dad up at 3pm we headed to the range so he could shoot my rifle and the thermal at a hand warmer. He did just fine on the range, so we headed for the woods. We tried to call hogs first, not sure they could hear us for the wind and rain. Nothing came. We moved a few hundred yards deeper in the woods and I was just about to try calling again. First I scanned with my new X320 thermal device and thought I could see something back in the brush. Sure enough it was hogs! We snuck in a little closer and I could see a big red looking hog. We got set up and waited patiently for her to offer a shot. She offered a quartering towards us shot and I told him to aim right behind her ear. He dropped her right there! We cut her up and packed her out of the woods, checked one more spot and went for supper. After dark we headed back out. The first place we checked had about 20 hogs there. Again we had to wait for a clear shot due to oil field tanks in the background. A boar presented a shot and Hunter dropped him right there! In the next field we spotted a group way off and closed the distance. Before we got set up I told him if the hogs scattered at the shot, try to get another. I explained how to follow the running hog with the sight right on his nose and squeeze. He got on the first hog, another boar and dropped it. Hogs scattered at top speed. Hunter followed and dropped another hog made a few shots at more. Then suddenly the second hog got up and took off. Hunter made two follow up shots and connected both times, putting her down for good. In the next field we spotted another small group, but they were on a mission. We never did catch up to them for a shot. We headed back towards the main road and spotted a lone hog. I told Hunter this was a big hog and we would have to hustle to get in range before he got down wind of us. We made just in time. Hunter got set up and dropped that big dude like a rock!
Follow me now. This was his first time to shoot at hogs ever! He dropped four in their tracks, one shot each! He hit a running hog 3 out of 3 times! That’s my kind of hunter, Hunter!
Merry Christmas
I picked Hunter and his dad up at 3pm we headed to the range so he could shoot my rifle and the thermal at a hand warmer. He did just fine on the range, so we headed for the woods. We tried to call hogs first, not sure they could hear us for the wind and rain. Nothing came. We moved a few hundred yards deeper in the woods and I was just about to try calling again. First I scanned with my new X320 thermal device and thought I could see something back in the brush. Sure enough it was hogs! We snuck in a little closer and I could see a big red looking hog. We got set up and waited patiently for her to offer a shot. She offered a quartering towards us shot and I told him to aim right behind her ear. He dropped her right there! We cut her up and packed her out of the woods, checked one more spot and went for supper. After dark we headed back out. The first place we checked had about 20 hogs there. Again we had to wait for a clear shot due to oil field tanks in the background. A boar presented a shot and Hunter dropped him right there! In the next field we spotted a group way off and closed the distance. Before we got set up I told him if the hogs scattered at the shot, try to get another. I explained how to follow the running hog with the sight right on his nose and squeeze. He got on the first hog, another boar and dropped it. Hogs scattered at top speed. Hunter followed and dropped another hog made a few shots at more. Then suddenly the second hog got up and took off. Hunter made two follow up shots and connected both times, putting her down for good. In the next field we spotted another small group, but they were on a mission. We never did catch up to them for a shot. We headed back towards the main road and spotted a lone hog. I told Hunter this was a big hog and we would have to hustle to get in range before he got down wind of us. We made just in time. Hunter got set up and dropped that big dude like a rock!
Follow me now. This was his first time to shoot at hogs ever! He dropped four in their tracks, one shot each! He hit a running hog 3 out of 3 times! That’s my kind of hunter, Hunter!
Merry Christmas
