Decided to take my girlfriend on a hog hunt, have not been seeing her for long and she had been mentioning that she wanted to try hunting. Got up to my buddy's ranch on Friday late afternoon, after getting all unpacked we headed out. I took her down to an area in the ranch where she could practice shooting the rifles and pistols, this was her first time ever firing a gun, to my surprise she handled it better than any first timer I had ever seen. She looked like a natural, after getting some practice rounds in we headed out for the evening hunt right at dark she spotted a nice 250 plus pound boar heading away from us, means the pig was on the move I took a shot and missed which was pretty embarrassing!
Saturday morning headed back out and again she spotted a heard of 7 hogs running along a ravine, this time I headed the pigs off in the truck and she got out and took a couple cracks with no luck. Later that day we realized we didn't have too much food left and instead of driving an hour into town she wanted to take the .22 out and shoot some ground squirrels and eat them up for lunch. I thought she was joking at first, but when i realized she was serious we went out, she ended up getting 5 ground squirrels and sure enough she cleaned them and cooked them up for lunch. By this time i was REAL impressed by the way she was taking to the trip and almost proposed to her there on the spot!
Saturday evening after the fabulous squirrel lunch we headed back out again, I went to the same area we had seen the big boar on Friday evening, as darkness was approaching we came around a tight turn and came up on 6 big hogs, she jumped out of the truck and started running up hill anticipating the hogs maintaining their direction, she was right and they ended up coming right in front of her, I was still catching up to her as she shot, i didn't see the hog go down but heard the splat and i knew immideatly it was a good hit as i approached her and looked over her shoulders I could see a pig down. I gave her a huge hug and congragulated her, she then gutted the pig and seemed to have a great time doing it. After we loaded the pig in the truck and took some pics, we went down to the ranch house, skinned and quarted the pig which she did her share of. Everyday since she has been on my ass about getting back and doing the whole thing over, my viewpoint on women hunting has definetly changed I now know they can hold their own with any male hunter and then some!
Saturday morning headed back out and again she spotted a heard of 7 hogs running along a ravine, this time I headed the pigs off in the truck and she got out and took a couple cracks with no luck. Later that day we realized we didn't have too much food left and instead of driving an hour into town she wanted to take the .22 out and shoot some ground squirrels and eat them up for lunch. I thought she was joking at first, but when i realized she was serious we went out, she ended up getting 5 ground squirrels and sure enough she cleaned them and cooked them up for lunch. By this time i was REAL impressed by the way she was taking to the trip and almost proposed to her there on the spot!
Saturday evening after the fabulous squirrel lunch we headed back out again, I went to the same area we had seen the big boar on Friday evening, as darkness was approaching we came around a tight turn and came up on 6 big hogs, she jumped out of the truck and started running up hill anticipating the hogs maintaining their direction, she was right and they ended up coming right in front of her, I was still catching up to her as she shot, i didn't see the hog go down but heard the splat and i knew immideatly it was a good hit as i approached her and looked over her shoulders I could see a pig down. I gave her a huge hug and congragulated her, she then gutted the pig and seemed to have a great time doing it. After we loaded the pig in the truck and took some pics, we went down to the ranch house, skinned and quarted the pig which she did her share of. Everyday since she has been on my ass about getting back and doing the whole thing over, my viewpoint on women hunting has definetly changed I now know they can hold their own with any male hunter and then some!
