We knew hogs were coming to our place and so showed up early in hopes that this would be an early day. It was, only the hogs that showed up were not hogs that had showed up previously on the game camera.
This was the daughter's hunt. She called the shots, figuratively and literally. To my surprise, she lasted over 15 minutes watching these hogs as we hoped for more or bigger hogs to appear. Finally, she decided we should try to take them and that she would have me shoot the outlier and she would take the other two, a plan that almost worked. She did the countdown and make an excellent shot. She helped to track the wounded hog into the chest high grass until we lost the blood trail. Actually, she is a better blood tracker than me. She then had us come back this morning and do a second search for the lost hog. After that, she narrated the video.
I had hoped that we might get to take out a big old nasty boar together, but this was so much more interesting and I really got a chance to see her perform when the pressure was on. For her third time shooting, I thought she did very well.
We did learn a sort of Wizard of Oz lesson. A hog without courage will try to run as will a hog with no heart. A hog without a brain will not go anywhere, however.
This was the daughter's hunt. She called the shots, figuratively and literally. To my surprise, she lasted over 15 minutes watching these hogs as we hoped for more or bigger hogs to appear. Finally, she decided we should try to take them and that she would have me shoot the outlier and she would take the other two, a plan that almost worked. She did the countdown and make an excellent shot. She helped to track the wounded hog into the chest high grass until we lost the blood trail. Actually, she is a better blood tracker than me. She then had us come back this morning and do a second search for the lost hog. After that, she narrated the video.
I had hoped that we might get to take out a big old nasty boar together, but this was so much more interesting and I really got a chance to see her perform when the pressure was on. For her third time shooting, I thought she did very well.
We did learn a sort of Wizard of Oz lesson. A hog without courage will try to run as will a hog with no heart. A hog without a brain will not go anywhere, however.
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