nathan koepp
Cibolo,TX
So me and a buddy set up on a field that I shot my sus venator candidate on and immediately notice a heat signature in a brush pile twenty yards away, it’s been raining so I just blow it off as a water puddle and leave it at that. Well time goes by and I here movement coming from the brush pile side note “there are calves in this field”. I scan over and notice a pig sized animal has stood up, and layed back down inside where the heat signature was.
So I walk over cautiously making sure I never take my sight off it, well I get to around six feet I can hear it breathing/snoring and am almost sure it is a pig but being there are calves here don’t want to shoot. So I walk to poking distance ie two feet and am looking at it through thermal but I see no ears which we all no are a dead give away of pigs. I have my buddy through a stick at it.... nothing, I yell at it...., nothing, finally he hits it with a rock it picks it head up with a grunt and goes back to sleep. At this point I have enough evidence to feel comfortable with the shot..BANG,BANG!! I see a pig tail swirl around and know my judgement was right, further analysis proves my suspicions correct. A 100% deaf pig!! It seems hog dogs have ripped his ears to shreds, and he is now hearing disabled.
So I walk over cautiously making sure I never take my sight off it, well I get to around six feet I can hear it breathing/snoring and am almost sure it is a pig but being there are calves here don’t want to shoot. So I walk to poking distance ie two feet and am looking at it through thermal but I see no ears which we all no are a dead give away of pigs. I have my buddy through a stick at it.... nothing, I yell at it...., nothing, finally he hits it with a rock it picks it head up with a grunt and goes back to sleep. At this point I have enough evidence to feel comfortable with the shot..BANG,BANG!! I see a pig tail swirl around and know my judgement was right, further analysis proves my suspicions correct. A 100% deaf pig!! It seems hog dogs have ripped his ears to shreds, and he is now hearing disabled.