DaveABQ
Albuquerque, NM
Got out to the lease to do some work on feeders and blinds and brought along my 12.5" suppressed 6.8 shooting 120 SST's and topped with my new Armasight Zeus Pro 4x 100mm 640 60hz thermal.
I hunted 3 nights and 2 hogs. I have video, but man is it ugly, I was playing with settings on the DVR and messed it all up, wish I would have caught it, but still fun.
The first night was in one of my new blinds I put up, I have a feeder in front of me and one behind so I can basically hunt any wind as the hogs will come on each from the direction the feeder is, for the most part, they will cross to the other one, but the idea is that they come from two different bedding areas and two different water sources, which has seemed to hold true according to game camera pictures.
Four hogs came in to the one feeder, two larger, two smaller, figuring the two larger were sows, I opted for the largest one, wrong, was a damn boar. One shot to the neck, he was down, didn't tape him, around 150-160 pounds would be my guess.
Plug for TCT, got a hat from BRD, figured it might give me luck.
Second night I went to another new blind I setup. Every night, before dark, multiple hogs coming in to the feeders, mostly towards the feeder to the river bottom, but I did a lot of work during the day and maybe they were bedded close by, not sure. Instead a lone boar, again I guess about the same size as the one the night before around 150 or so pounds, comes strolling in.
I hit him with a 120, down he goes, then starts doing a snout plow, so I whack him a few more for good measure lol.
and I couldn't resist...."Aw Man, get that off my back and head, its making my neck hurt".....
I hunted 3 nights and 2 hogs. I have video, but man is it ugly, I was playing with settings on the DVR and messed it all up, wish I would have caught it, but still fun.
The first night was in one of my new blinds I put up, I have a feeder in front of me and one behind so I can basically hunt any wind as the hogs will come on each from the direction the feeder is, for the most part, they will cross to the other one, but the idea is that they come from two different bedding areas and two different water sources, which has seemed to hold true according to game camera pictures.
Four hogs came in to the one feeder, two larger, two smaller, figuring the two larger were sows, I opted for the largest one, wrong, was a damn boar. One shot to the neck, he was down, didn't tape him, around 150-160 pounds would be my guess.
Plug for TCT, got a hat from BRD, figured it might give me luck.
Second night I went to another new blind I setup. Every night, before dark, multiple hogs coming in to the feeders, mostly towards the feeder to the river bottom, but I did a lot of work during the day and maybe they were bedded close by, not sure. Instead a lone boar, again I guess about the same size as the one the night before around 150 or so pounds, comes strolling in.
I hit him with a 120, down he goes, then starts doing a snout plow, so I whack him a few more for good measure lol.
and I couldn't resist...."Aw Man, get that off my back and head, its making my neck hurt".....
