bisonic
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Went out to the ranch yesterday figuring that the recent rains and cool weather would have gotten the hogs active. Sure enough, I pulled the pictures from a couple of game cams and plenty of activity. A few of the best are linked below. There are a couple videos that appear to be the same hogs, one an oreo and one a black boar (though I'm not sure the boar is the same one in both videos). I like the first one where their eyes start to appear out of the dark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0QLRADswIUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqM8zA6_aps
After doing a few projects I headed out around 3 to the main valley where I'd seen some fresh rooting. I didn't go more than a couple of hundred yards before I spotted a big black hog at the edge of the valley floor only 100 yards in front of me. The wind was at my back but she didn't seem to catch my scent as I approached. She started to head up the side of the hill so I figured it was time to shoot, so I shouldered my "new" late 1940's Win 1894 30-30 with a peep sight - the first time I've had it on a hunt. Man, not easy sighting in on a black target through a black peep sight, no contrast at all! My first shot hit her and she took off across the valley. I followed her and climbed a small ridge to get an angle down to where she'd stopped about 50 yards away and finished her with a shot to the vitals. The first shot had hit her in the belly, but luckily had gone thru the liver and not hit any intestines. Got the atv and dragged her back to base to dress out - she was 200 lbs even on the hoof, a nice fat sow that should be good eating.
The day wasn't over yet though - around 5 I was taking the atv back to park it when I spotted another almost identical hog across the valley. Snuck up on it at almost exactly the same spot the first hog had stopped and took a shot. It again was hard to get a great shot off, particularly in the fading light, but I heard the bullet impact and knew I'd hit it good. Unfortunately it didn't seem to know that and took off running with me following behind. I chased it a good quarter mile before it took off into some thick brush and disappeared. So one down and another probable within two hours of each other, I'll call that a good afternoon (and day-early birthday present to myself!).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0QLRADswIUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqM8zA6_aps
After doing a few projects I headed out around 3 to the main valley where I'd seen some fresh rooting. I didn't go more than a couple of hundred yards before I spotted a big black hog at the edge of the valley floor only 100 yards in front of me. The wind was at my back but she didn't seem to catch my scent as I approached. She started to head up the side of the hill so I figured it was time to shoot, so I shouldered my "new" late 1940's Win 1894 30-30 with a peep sight - the first time I've had it on a hunt. Man, not easy sighting in on a black target through a black peep sight, no contrast at all! My first shot hit her and she took off across the valley. I followed her and climbed a small ridge to get an angle down to where she'd stopped about 50 yards away and finished her with a shot to the vitals. The first shot had hit her in the belly, but luckily had gone thru the liver and not hit any intestines. Got the atv and dragged her back to base to dress out - she was 200 lbs even on the hoof, a nice fat sow that should be good eating.
The day wasn't over yet though - around 5 I was taking the atv back to park it when I spotted another almost identical hog across the valley. Snuck up on it at almost exactly the same spot the first hog had stopped and took a shot. It again was hard to get a great shot off, particularly in the fading light, but I heard the bullet impact and knew I'd hit it good. Unfortunately it didn't seem to know that and took off running with me following behind. I chased it a good quarter mile before it took off into some thick brush and disappeared. So one down and another probable within two hours of each other, I'll call that a good afternoon (and day-early birthday present to myself!).
