After dinner I decided to head out for a night time stalkathon to whack some hogs. First place I get to I spot a group of about ten hogs under a feeder about 6-700 yards out. I get out of the truck and make the long and incredibly slow approach. As I get within about 200 yards the hogs begin to scatter for some reason. I get closer and can see a buck that moved under the feeder. Im thinking crap! I just spent all this time slow walking on a rocky road trying to be super quite just so a random deer can spook my hogs off!
Well, no not really. The hogs simply were on the other side of the fence line eating up the corn on that side. Once I spotted them again i sneak into position about 60-70 yards from the feeder and took a knee waiting for them to come through the gate opening. Well they didnt go through the gate opening. The biggest hog of the group leaped over the damn fence and all the other hogs followed suit. Never had i seen this before. Hogs that could hurdle a nearly 4 foot tall barbed wire fence. These creature always seem to amaze me. Anyways, now they are back on the feeder side of the fence line so i can get a proper shot. I wait for the largest hog to get a wee bit closer. I place the IR laser behind its ear and fire....THUD! That hog takes off wounded I fire some more shots at the tiny little piglets running off to the right and i believe i may have clipped one of them as i heard some moaning sounds from that direction.
After the chaos their is this little piglet squealing right where i shot the big hog. I was just kinda like what the hell is this? I wasn't going for s piglet. Well it turns out that piglet was directly behind the hog and suffered from a bad case of the wrong place wrong time syndrome.
After walking around trying to find blood of the other hog I finally found some and followed it into the brush about 50 yards or so. It was bleeding heavily, but I was behind schedule hitting my other spots and decided I'll recover it in the morning.
After i leave here i decided to hit a location i baited heavily earlier. It holds a lot of water when we get rain and there are two ponds that are fully stocked at the moment. I drive close with the headlights off and get out to look around. I spot a large boar by itself at about 150 yards away in a clearing between the two ponds. Perfect location as this is one of the few spots that is not rocky and I can get really close. I get to the first pond and low and behold their is a deer. It hears me and starts spazzing out running around in circles in the pond making all sorts of racket. The hog pops his head up and before I could squeeze off a desperation shot he makes it into the brush.
So there ya go...another long winded story full of excitement, drama, and suspense.
Well, no not really. The hogs simply were on the other side of the fence line eating up the corn on that side. Once I spotted them again i sneak into position about 60-70 yards from the feeder and took a knee waiting for them to come through the gate opening. Well they didnt go through the gate opening. The biggest hog of the group leaped over the damn fence and all the other hogs followed suit. Never had i seen this before. Hogs that could hurdle a nearly 4 foot tall barbed wire fence. These creature always seem to amaze me. Anyways, now they are back on the feeder side of the fence line so i can get a proper shot. I wait for the largest hog to get a wee bit closer. I place the IR laser behind its ear and fire....THUD! That hog takes off wounded I fire some more shots at the tiny little piglets running off to the right and i believe i may have clipped one of them as i heard some moaning sounds from that direction.
After the chaos their is this little piglet squealing right where i shot the big hog. I was just kinda like what the hell is this? I wasn't going for s piglet. Well it turns out that piglet was directly behind the hog and suffered from a bad case of the wrong place wrong time syndrome.
After walking around trying to find blood of the other hog I finally found some and followed it into the brush about 50 yards or so. It was bleeding heavily, but I was behind schedule hitting my other spots and decided I'll recover it in the morning.
After i leave here i decided to hit a location i baited heavily earlier. It holds a lot of water when we get rain and there are two ponds that are fully stocked at the moment. I drive close with the headlights off and get out to look around. I spot a large boar by itself at about 150 yards away in a clearing between the two ponds. Perfect location as this is one of the few spots that is not rocky and I can get really close. I get to the first pond and low and behold their is a deer. It hears me and starts spazzing out running around in circles in the pond making all sorts of racket. The hog pops his head up and before I could squeeze off a desperation shot he makes it into the brush.
So there ya go...another long winded story full of excitement, drama, and suspense.
