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Well, it was a successful hunt on a night that was absurdly boring. Aside from a raccoon, bobcat, and hog, the only other animals I saw were bunnies. I had checked the game cameras and I should have been covered up in deer. No skunks or armadillos either. Sheesh.
The bobcat came in and apparently walked by my stand without me knowing it and I spied her as she was walking away down the trail. By the time I got the rifle up, she was nearly gone. She was quartered away, but not as much as a thought and so my first shot did not travel as far forward as I would have liked and she was not immediately dead. A second shot finished her.
The hog shot worked out a bit better. The hog moved into a nearly perfect position just after the recorder was up and running and so I went ahead and took the shot while the opportunity was there. Despite what I put in for a time stamp, it was closer to 11 than to 10 pm. - lack of sleep. Sorry.
The hog was another mulefoot. It would appear that there is indeed a local population of them in the area and they traverse TBR from time to time. Oral history from the grandfather of a buddy of mine says that there was a mulefoot breeder in the county in the early/mid 1900s, but no specifics as to exactly where that ranch was located.
Even so, I am reasonably convinced that my local population is descended from that farm or another local mulefoot farm. I can't imagine there were too many, but it is highly unlikely that these are all natural mutations, LOL.
The bobcat came in and apparently walked by my stand without me knowing it and I spied her as she was walking away down the trail. By the time I got the rifle up, she was nearly gone. She was quartered away, but not as much as a thought and so my first shot did not travel as far forward as I would have liked and she was not immediately dead. A second shot finished her.
The hog shot worked out a bit better. The hog moved into a nearly perfect position just after the recorder was up and running and so I went ahead and took the shot while the opportunity was there. Despite what I put in for a time stamp, it was closer to 11 than to 10 pm. - lack of sleep. Sorry.
The hog was another mulefoot. It would appear that there is indeed a local population of them in the area and they traverse TBR from time to time. Oral history from the grandfather of a buddy of mine says that there was a mulefoot breeder in the county in the early/mid 1900s, but no specifics as to exactly where that ranch was located.
Even so, I am reasonably convinced that my local population is descended from that farm or another local mulefoot farm. I can't imagine there were too many, but it is highly unlikely that these are all natural mutations, LOL.
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