bjake21
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Well after I realized how long this post was I cut out all the parts about my hunting partner canceling, driving home after saturday to fix the scope on my rifle, getting my truck stuck, jamming my truck window, and hunting without seeing pigs
, here it goes...
This is a little before 3pm on Monday and I have yet to see a pig. I am going down the hill and decide I better look for a place to turn my truck around and head back. I stop for a minute and then I see a deer jump across the road. So I get out of my truck and see if I can see where it went and maybe get a photo. As I am walking down, I am pretty deep in back in there and there are a lot of tall trees, unlike most of the rest of CR's oak / grasslands, so I am in the shade and it is pretty cool down in there. I notice a couple of small black animals that I think are pigs
, at last! I get closer expecting them to be raccoons or something else and there about 4 pigglets!
It was hard to see through all the trees but all I could make out was a big black sow that they are following. To this point I had never seen a hog on public land, let alone shoot one and I'm thinking "great, I finally see some pigs and it is a sow and pigglets, nothing I am going to shoot".
I follow them about 50 yards and all of a sudden I see about 5 more big hogs!
I could not tell you how much my blood was pumping when I saw those! The thing was that they were about 50 yards in front of me and 50 yards up on a very steep hill.
I figure there is no way I am going to catch them and get a shot off between the trees. Then, one of the bigger pigs, a boar, steps broadside in between two trees about 2-3 feet apart. I quickly took a standing shot right behind the ear. The rifle kicks and I can barely make out the pigs scrambling up the hill into some more trees. I figured I missed since I don't see anything or hear anything. DAM! I run up to were the hog was and can see the pigs about 100 yards up into the hillside through the thick trees, it's over, they're gone. I take one step backwards and turn around to see if I can spot any blood and about 2 steps behind me, THERE HE IS
in between those 2 trees, dropped him where he stood with a shot through a neck artery with my Savage 30-06 (core-lokt 150)!!! I drag him down the hill and get to a small bridge, as I am crossing my right foot goes right through a board almost fall through, but at this point I really didn't notice.
When I got to the DFG window at about 4pm he weighed in at just over 130 lbs dressed. Man what a long weekend, but I got my first hog!
By the way the folks at the gate and window could not have been nicer and helpful towards me, it was a great (long) weekend. When I left Monday evening there was 13 or so hogs taken and about 75-100 total hunters, it seemed like most of the lucky ones were JHO members
This is a little before 3pm on Monday and I have yet to see a pig. I am going down the hill and decide I better look for a place to turn my truck around and head back. I stop for a minute and then I see a deer jump across the road. So I get out of my truck and see if I can see where it went and maybe get a photo. As I am walking down, I am pretty deep in back in there and there are a lot of tall trees, unlike most of the rest of CR's oak / grasslands, so I am in the shade and it is pretty cool down in there. I notice a couple of small black animals that I think are pigs
It was hard to see through all the trees but all I could make out was a big black sow that they are following. To this point I had never seen a hog on public land, let alone shoot one and I'm thinking "great, I finally see some pigs and it is a sow and pigglets, nothing I am going to shoot".
I figure there is no way I am going to catch them and get a shot off between the trees. Then, one of the bigger pigs, a boar, steps broadside in between two trees about 2-3 feet apart. I quickly took a standing shot right behind the ear. The rifle kicks and I can barely make out the pigs scrambling up the hill into some more trees. I figured I missed since I don't see anything or hear anything. DAM! I run up to were the hog was and can see the pigs about 100 yards up into the hillside through the thick trees, it's over, they're gone. I take one step backwards and turn around to see if I can spot any blood and about 2 steps behind me, THERE HE IS
When I got to the DFG window at about 4pm he weighed in at just over 130 lbs dressed. Man what a long weekend, but I got my first hog!
By the way the folks at the gate and window could not have been nicer and helpful towards me, it was a great (long) weekend. When I left Monday evening there was 13 or so hogs taken and about 75-100 total hunters, it seemed like most of the lucky ones were JHO members
