Live2hunt
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Yesterday I, my dad, and son tried to find some hogs in FHL. We arrived at the registration window a little after 6am. The guy at the registration window told us the area we wanted to go was full. So we switched to a muzzleloader area and tried our luck for the morning hunt. By 10am we gave up on the hog hunt, turned in our papers back at the registration windows, and headed out to a spot on public land to do a little bit of band-tail pigeon hunt which the season opened on Saturday. We didn't see any pigeon but saw some deer, quails, lots of tree squirrels, and surprisingly all the fresh pig signs (not usual to that part of the wood). It was only 12 noon so we switched over to tree squirrel hunts and had our limit in an hour. We took the last few evening hours to glass and look for the critters that made the fresh rootings and mud puddle wallows. Nothing.
This morning the alarm woke me up at 3am and I wanted to take another peak at those hills in hope to see those rototillers doing their ground dozing. Arrived at the spot where I wanted to glass in the dark, I quietly got my AR15 6.8 SPC ready with a 10 round mag of 85 gr. barnes TSX, and wait patiently for first light. As soon as I can see the open hills, I put the bino to work. Saw some deer, more tree squirrels playing and barking around the oak trees, and some more deer. 9am came and no rototiller in sight. I decided to drive down the road to a parking spot and walk down a canyon which I think the critters might head into when the sun comes up. I jumped in the truck and backed it up to turn around when I look across the canyon in a patch of oak trees and there a black spot appeared under an oak tree about 300 yards away. I moved the truck back into the parking spot and out came the AR. I stalked to within 70 yards and had the biggest one in the group standing broadside. I put the crosshairs on the shoulder and BANG! All the hogs ran towards me closing the distance to 40 yards when the big one that I shot at collapse and all of them paused. BANG! a black one dropped in its track and the rest scurried uphill. I could have shot some more when they stopped a couple times before cresting the ridgetop, but I only have two tags and already two pigs down. Big one was about 110-120 lbs. The smaller one was about 70 lbs. I drug them one at a time down to the bottom and then up another 150 yards to the truck. There will be BBQ pork ribs for dinner tonight.
L2H
This morning the alarm woke me up at 3am and I wanted to take another peak at those hills in hope to see those rototillers doing their ground dozing. Arrived at the spot where I wanted to glass in the dark, I quietly got my AR15 6.8 SPC ready with a 10 round mag of 85 gr. barnes TSX, and wait patiently for first light. As soon as I can see the open hills, I put the bino to work. Saw some deer, more tree squirrels playing and barking around the oak trees, and some more deer. 9am came and no rototiller in sight. I decided to drive down the road to a parking spot and walk down a canyon which I think the critters might head into when the sun comes up. I jumped in the truck and backed it up to turn around when I look across the canyon in a patch of oak trees and there a black spot appeared under an oak tree about 300 yards away. I moved the truck back into the parking spot and out came the AR. I stalked to within 70 yards and had the biggest one in the group standing broadside. I put the crosshairs on the shoulder and BANG! All the hogs ran towards me closing the distance to 40 yards when the big one that I shot at collapse and all of them paused. BANG! a black one dropped in its track and the rest scurried uphill. I could have shot some more when they stopped a couple times before cresting the ridgetop, but I only have two tags and already two pigs down. Big one was about 110-120 lbs. The smaller one was about 70 lbs. I drug them one at a time down to the bottom and then up another 150 yards to the truck. There will be BBQ pork ribs for dinner tonight.
L2H
