Live2hunt
Forever Hunting
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This morning three buddies and I arrived at the parking lot at about 4:45am. We did the usual hike in the dark to get to the glassing spot at dawn. One buddy decided to stay low and work the brush in small canyons and draws. Two buddies hiked up with me toward the first glassing spot. As we were halfway up to the first glassing spot, we noticed two other flashlights coming up the trail about half mile behind us. We hurried to the first glassing spot as light was coming up fast. One buddy sat under a the only tree in the first glassing spot and started glassing as it was already light enough. I hurried to the glassing spot at the top while the other buddy slowly work his way up towards me while glancing back on and off to glass the hills. I was about 200 yards to my glassing spot at the top when the two-way radio echoed, "Pigs on the far hillside and I'm heading down for a stalk!" I looked over one ridge across on the far hillside and sure enough I made out three pigs weaving in and out of the patch of oak trees. Then the radio echoed, "another hunter is working uphill towards the pigs!" I threw the bino up and saw a hunter, not any of my buddies, already stalking uphill only about 100 yards below the pigs. A few seconds later, BANG! BANG! and a bunch of pigs scattered uphill and disappeared over the hill. Then one pig came back way above and headed down to the upper part of the steep canyon in between us and the other hunter. I hurried down to see if I can intercept that pig. The downhill was a quick slide down, but the uphill on the other side was like climbing a 90 degree brick wall. By the time I got to the trail where I thought the pig may come through, it was already too late. The boundary fence was only about 150 yards away and that pig may have made it under the fence long before I even got there. The canyon where the rest of the pigs disappeared into have some small patches of thick brush and some small puddles of water so we thought the pigs may just be down at the bottom cooling off from the long uphill run from the other side. We hiked over and checked every brush in the canyon with no sign of any pig. We guessed that they may have worked their way along the side of the canyon uphill and over to the private property side of the fence about half a mile up. Oh well that was part IV which we came close and looking back at the scenario, part IV could've had some pictures attach if we had the place to ourselves just like every other time. But it's public land and someone else beat us to the pigs. Oh well there's always next time.
I had a chance to talk to the other hunter who took two shots at the pigs. He missed!!! He turned out to hang out here at JHO also. Didn't get a chance to ask what screen name you hid behind on the computer, but one word of advise for you if you are reading this. Get a scope mounted on that rifle! And next time you will have a pig to drag back to the truck.
L2H
I had a chance to talk to the other hunter who took two shots at the pigs. He missed!!! He turned out to hang out here at JHO also. Didn't get a chance to ask what screen name you hid behind on the computer, but one word of advise for you if you are reading this. Get a scope mounted on that rifle! And next time you will have a pig to drag back to the truck.
L2H
