9-8-07 hunt

[broncobilly]

Can you see the two hogs and four dogs that are about 20 feet in front of me.


9-8-07 hog pic 1


I couldn’t see them either. I was standing on top of an irrigation sprinkler pivot to try to get enough elevation to be able to see them, but it didn’t work. That crop was about 9 feet tall and so thick that you couldn’t see 6 inches when you got out in it. I could tell where hogs and dogs were by watching the tops move when they moved, but I couldn’t see them. I finally pinpointed one of the hogs that stopped next to a sunflower that was taller than the crop, so I eased out to try to get him, but like an idiot, I took a rifle instead of relying on my pistol. When I got out to where I figured that I was within two or three feet of the hog I stopped and listened. Sure enough, after about 10 or 15 seconds I heard him coming, but by the time I could see him, he was already closer to me than the end of my rifle barrel. After a very interesting ½ second or so, I got some lead into him and he left. A minute or two later, my son hollered that a large hog had left the field with all the dogs right behind it. Two miles later, the dogs stopped this guy and we got him.


9-8-07 hog pic 2


9-8-07 hog pic 3

I was a little bit surprised that a hog hit as hard as I was sure I had hit that hog would go two miles before stopping, but as it turned out, the hog that left the field hadn’t been hit at all, so I figured that the hog I had shot must have stayed in the field while the dogs chased his buddy, but by the time we got this one, it was too hot to go back into the field looking for the one I had shot, besides, I had had all the close encounters in that field I wanted for one day. Later, when I harvested the field, I found the one I had shot. I estimated both hogs in the 270 to 300 pound range.


Bill

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