Okay, here's the story. I decided to do an afternoon hunt in one of my favorite hunting area, The Na'pali Coast on Kauai. So I hiked the two mile trail into the bottom of Hanakapiai Valleyand continued up until I came to an area that seemed good for still hunting. It was raining really hard the night before and all old sign had been wiped out. After criss crossing up and down the sizes of the valley, I dropped into a drain and walked up until I smelled goats. The goat was real close but witht he thick bushes, I couldn't see him. Could hear him ripping off leaves but couldn't see it. So I tried a stalk but never came across the goats. I continued climbing high up on the ridges and eventually came across a 24 inch spread Billy but he saw me first and I never had a chance. All I got was a still photo of the nanny that was with him. I took some pictures of native plants and scenery before climbing baack down to the trail. After checking the waterfall area for goats, I decided to call in quits and start making my way back in hopes of running into something along the trail. But on the way down, I decided to try one last time up a familiar drain that I once shot two pigs in. So I cut up along it's stream and after a couple hundred yard up, I tried cutting off away from the stream. Didn't take long before I herd pigs cracking kukui nuts. So I slowly maneuvered in their direction but I made a mistake. They heard me and should have stopped and waited for them to start feeding again. Instead, I kept moving fearing they were working downhill towards my scent. At 20 yards, one of the pigs walked out to see what I was. He came out, I drew, he either saw me draw or saw my silver camera hanging at my side and booked it into the uluhe fern. So I had blown it but after a few moments, the second pig came walked out into an opening. It hadn't even ran yet! So I drew back but the pig was picking up speed and I flung one at it. The arrow went low and stuck in the grownd under it's belly. I really shouldn'ty have even shot; I was too late anyway, and beside's, I hadn't even fully anchored. So I waited a while and the pigs slowly maneuvered down to get better wind of me. It was getting dark, so I left. But on the way down the trail I bumped into pigs twice in the dark. The first time I only heard them and they spooked but the second time, I though I could see the siloughette in the open about ten yards away. I turned on my led and couldn't see anything at first but then I noticed the pig. She really didn't stand out very well in the LED light but I could see her. I drew back, Aimed and let one fly. She let out a squeel and slowly walked away. I knew I had hit her, but where? So I searched for blood and it took me a while to find some. But the blood was plain red, although it appeared to be spraying. Also wasn't rubbing on anything. The thought came to mind that I might have hit the rear end. After all, the pig was quartering away really pretty heavily. I ended up following a very sparse blood trail through a maze of thick uluhe ferns before finding the arrow, covered in and surrounded by blood. A few feet more was the sow. And what I thought to be a 100 pounder was more like 160! The arrow had somehow by luck, hit the femoral artery in the back leg and also penetrated the body cavity. Most of the bleeding was internal and she went about 30 yards. So it was sort of a sloppy hunt and I lucked out. Not too proud of myself right now but stoked to have caught that pig. I had hardly even shot my bow in a few months and am not the most disciplined bowhunter but I pull it off and can hit running wild chickens. Lucked out I guess. I deboned the pig on the spot and brought out 30 pounds of fatty meat. Pretty much filled my day pack to the brim and everything that was in the day pack had to be strapped to the outside. She was a really healthy pig except for those worms in her. I never seen the kidney but the worms that I did see were in the fat near the tenderloins (near the kidneys) and I read something that described kidney worms as being identical to what I saw. The supposedly are located in the kidney and the fat around it. I'm cooking the meat right now in the oven. Don't worry, it's definitly gonna be well done. 4+ hours at 375.
