Went hunting last week with some buddies, two of which I haven't seen in months. It was a great time, but the weather was awful with temps in the 40s and intermittent drizzle and showers throughout the night.
It was just barely sprinkling just before midnight as we inspected a field and found a lot of fresh rooting. Despite the hours of precipitation, there was fresh, turned over soil that was barely damp. That meant that the hogs were close as the turned over deeper dirt had not been on the surface long enough to turn to mud.
So we are looking for the hogs and I am in the back of the group, trying to get background video when I noticed the guys were obviously onto something. I was thinking that maybe they were looking at some hogs almost missed the countdown...
After shooting the coyotes, we continued across the field, looking for the hogs when one of the guys spotted some through the trees in the next field. We made our approach and ran into a fence that we could not get through without a lot of noise and set up to shoot...only we were unable to all be on hogs at the same time as the hogs were moving and the hogs would disappear from view from one or more shooters at any given time. So after a few minutes of frustration, we retreated, found a place to cross the fence to get closer, coming around from the side, only to run into yet another fence and then noticing that there was a pond between the hogs and us. So we set up to shoot from this location...
All in all, a good night of hunting, awful weather, but some real challenges and good successes with good friends.
It was just barely sprinkling just before midnight as we inspected a field and found a lot of fresh rooting. Despite the hours of precipitation, there was fresh, turned over soil that was barely damp. That meant that the hogs were close as the turned over deeper dirt had not been on the surface long enough to turn to mud.
So we are looking for the hogs and I am in the back of the group, trying to get background video when I noticed the guys were obviously onto something. I was thinking that maybe they were looking at some hogs almost missed the countdown...
After shooting the coyotes, we continued across the field, looking for the hogs when one of the guys spotted some through the trees in the next field. We made our approach and ran into a fence that we could not get through without a lot of noise and set up to shoot...only we were unable to all be on hogs at the same time as the hogs were moving and the hogs would disappear from view from one or more shooters at any given time. So after a few minutes of frustration, we retreated, found a place to cross the fence to get closer, coming around from the side, only to run into yet another fence and then noticing that there was a pond between the hogs and us. So we set up to shoot from this location...
All in all, a good night of hunting, awful weather, but some real challenges and good successes with good friends.
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