Steve Walters
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I got home last night (1/27/13) after a very memorable hog hunt in Northern Ca with several buddies on a private ranch. We left Thursday morning, and hunted Fri, Sat and Sun morning, afternoon and evenings. Well several decided to sleep in, and not hunt after several very late nights of cards, dice, and domino's in the cabin under the lanterns. I headed out every chance I could trying to find one of the many hogs that were destroying the country side with there rooting. The first day I hunted for most of it, and after several thousand of vertical feet of hiking in extremely steep country I couldn't locate any by the time my legs were worn out, and starting to cramp up. But, the groups of Blacktail deer, and Turkeys were cool to see and sneak in on within bow range to glass at. I also found at least one shed every time I left the cabin to hunt. One was a nice 3x. The second morning a buddy said I could use his Muzzle loader to hunt with. (I'm familiar with them, but I've never killed a hog with one) so I left my bow in its case for the day. When I reached the top of the ridge line above the cabin, I spotted a group of hogs feeding across from me in a clearing. I quickly moved to within range down wind from them. Which was directly below them with a 50+ degree angle shot strait uphill. After crawling from under a old gnarly Oak tree in the tall grass to maintain my cover, I saw a nice sow feeding about 60 yards above me presenting me with a perfect shot. I very slowly squeezed the trigger off after resting the gun over my pack. The next thing I see is star's dancing in front of me, with blood running down my face and all over my binos and pack. Yep, gave myself a nice "Scope Eye" from shooting up at that extreme angle laying on my belly.:smiley_doh: After 10 minutes of bleeding like crazy I got it stopped, and got on the radio to camp with a request for a extraction for the hog down and one casualty. A little later a buddy came up with a quad he brought for the hunt. After many laughs, razzing and cell phone pics too send to everyone my buddies know, we all though it best to get some stitched from a Doc in the local town. One thing for sure is this is a hunt well never forget....:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:
What the country looked like.
Cold & Windy Sunrise on the 2nd morning hunt.
3 hogs feeding across from me at 260 yards.
One "KIA" & one "Casualty". :smiley_doh:
Not the location I was expecting to be at after the 2nd morning hunt. 6 Stitches later......:bag-on-head:
What the country looked like.
Cold & Windy Sunrise on the 2nd morning hunt.
3 hogs feeding across from me at 260 yards.
One "KIA" & one "Casualty". :smiley_doh:
Not the location I was expecting to be at after the 2nd morning hunt. 6 Stitches later......:bag-on-head:
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