Bwana Turtle
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The plot thickens:
Well I Was so jazzed that even with taking a prescribed sleep aid I got around 37 seconds of sleep ! Can we spell groggy,bleery eyed and half past dead ?
I meet the guide at 4:30 AM. I follow him to a ranch, we drive to a field and he says "Do you see that dust cloud over there ?" At this point I'm trying to remembr what night vision is and reply by making some vague noise. Then seven piggies saunter by in a line. But it is still before legal hunting time. he's craning around looking through his binocs and I'm wishing I had the eyes I had even 15 years ago. Four pigs appear but they are kinda small, in the 80 to 100 lb. range.
He starts the truck and guns off to another field and glasses. He gets out of the truck and beckons me forth. (a little class as in "Lay on McDuff") He says OK the pig is heading this way at this angle, when he gets to that clearing . . . Well he appears ! a 100 yard shot in barely legal light on sleep deprivation OH NO !
BANG ! IT was sooo cool it was freeze frame time. There was about a three foot muzzle flash ! And even though it was too close I swear I heard the sweet and musical sound of Whap.
The pig trots off about 100 yards and stops. We wait about 10 minutes for him to expire and he trots off down this ravine. We jump in the truck go down another driveable ravine four wheel over a hill and head him off at he pass. The guide grabs some shooting sticks and once more more beckons me forth ! Lo and behold ( hey, I'm Gettin' into this) there is my piggily soon to be no longer wiggily ! He says shoot him in the neck before he gets into those trees. I oblige.
An aside: both shots were low. I wonder if my tightening the stock screws could have had anything to do with this ? (What a maroon)
The whole thing was over in less time than it took me to type this, but it was a lot more expensive.
And in memory of Vinswitch: I shot the pig on the floor of the pick up cab with a loaded pistol while leaning on the side of the truck bed for support long after darkby the light of the head lamps.
Also, this was not the Reaer's Digest version.
I tried to add a picturebut it doesn't seem to be working.
