So yesterday afternoon my buddy john came and picked me and my hunting buddy ryan up to head south to some private property he has access to and can bring a friends with on occasion. we got down to this property about 230 and were settled in the stands by 330. Sat there enjoying the scenery till about 530 when the sky opened up and let lose. So here i am in a deluge gun and myself covered by a poncho. In the middle of a torrential rain a boar walks out right in front of me and starts milling around. I watched him for about a min or so, and lined him up.....gave him a grunt to try to stop him. no dice he goes back pretty much the way he came. About 6:15 or so the rain slowed down enough for me to get down and pick up my thermocell which had fallen when trying to get covered for the rain. So i get down and about 40 yds away in the woods i hear a few good sized animals making a ruckus. but they were not where i would have gotten a shot from the stand so i stay down and decide to see what i can find out. Trudge thru the now wetter woods into a drain area where these pigs were moving. I get in there and start looking around and about 6 hogs go to my right and then circle around and back towards where john had setup with his oldest boy 9. well apparently this girl did not run with them or she smelled me, and she charges right at me and i stand my ground and stay as still as one of the saplings next to me she passes by me maybe 6 inches thru some saplings, close enough i coulda flicked her ear as she went by. she trots about 25 maybe 30 yds away from me and i lined her up and bang. She dropped in her tracks. no squeals. just the twitch. I let her lay there for a min or so while i thought about what just occurred when i hear a shot.....then about a min later another. I pull out my rope and tied around here grabbed a stick tied to that and pulled her out to my stand. Start heading over to johns stand, and i see him on the ground running towards his stand to give grant(his boy) a thumbs up sign and man that boy starts jumping around in the stand like a crazy person. go to check out his hog and it is a big boar maybe 175 with some big nasty teeth on him and scars all over his chest and body and his right front leg about twice as big as the other. We pulled his to his stand went to get the truck and went back and loaded em up. by this time it is getting dark so we go to get ryan my wma hunting buddy. On the way to get him about 4 or 5 hogs pop up in front of us and we stop thinking maybe they were on the way to his stand. ends up they were but he never saw them. So 2 out of 3 aint bad. got em cleaned and on ice and got home, what a day. i will post pics when my buddies send them to me as my phone took a crap when i pulled it out in the rain, to txt my buddies and tell them the hogs were starting to move around in the rain.
Good,stuff.
Way to go.......BACON!!
Good job!
congrats
