Took Ben (HuntTXhogs, used to post as Benny Bone, here) down to Bosque County as the Hessian was unavailable. He asked how things normally go and that is how they went for this evening as well.
Spotted this big boy just as the sun was going down behind the trees. Made a long, round about stalk to get into position. Just before we started shooting, if you turn the volume up on the video, I exclaimed, "HOLY CRAP.....Are you sure that is a hog??" Then you may want to turn the volume back down.
This is a hog that was caught on one of the game cameras 2 or 3 weeks ago that I told the landowner that I would prefer hunting from a tree stand.
Had trouble finding all the wounds on him. Found 6 wounds for 7 shots fired, one of which was an exit, but could not find the entry. My last shot glanced the top of his skull as he was running and finally dropped him, although several previous shots were definitely lethal. Even so, he was still not dead and we used a pistol to finish him.
Tried hunting predators for a while in the next pasture and didn't see squat.
Went back to the oats and then found a bunch of piglets. They were closer and smaller than I realized. We only found 3 despite looking for the better part of an hour.
I think the coolest part of the evening was having the landowner come over as we were getting stuff out to haul out the hog and he gave us permission to drive through his oats field to get it...and said to bring it up to the house because he wanted to see it. He asked what I thought it weighed when he saw it and I said we taped it at about 320, but that we were going to find a tree to get a scale weight. He asked how the tape method worked and I explained. He then said to pull it around back where they skin their deer and we could just weigh it there. He was hugely impressed when the scale read 322 lbs. We had been telling him weights on hogs for the last 6 weeks and he knew we had some method we used, but he had no idea if it really worked or was just a bunch of hooey. Made a believer out of him.
Spotted this big boy just as the sun was going down behind the trees. Made a long, round about stalk to get into position. Just before we started shooting, if you turn the volume up on the video, I exclaimed, "HOLY CRAP.....Are you sure that is a hog??" Then you may want to turn the volume back down.
This is a hog that was caught on one of the game cameras 2 or 3 weeks ago that I told the landowner that I would prefer hunting from a tree stand.
Had trouble finding all the wounds on him. Found 6 wounds for 7 shots fired, one of which was an exit, but could not find the entry. My last shot glanced the top of his skull as he was running and finally dropped him, although several previous shots were definitely lethal. Even so, he was still not dead and we used a pistol to finish him.
Tried hunting predators for a while in the next pasture and didn't see squat.
Went back to the oats and then found a bunch of piglets. They were closer and smaller than I realized. We only found 3 despite looking for the better part of an hour.
I think the coolest part of the evening was having the landowner come over as we were getting stuff out to haul out the hog and he gave us permission to drive through his oats field to get it...and said to bring it up to the house because he wanted to see it. He asked what I thought it weighed when he saw it and I said we taped it at about 320, but that we were going to find a tree to get a scale weight. He asked how the tape method worked and I explained. He then said to pull it around back where they skin their deer and we could just weigh it there. He was hugely impressed when the scale read 322 lbs. We had been telling him weights on hogs for the last 6 weeks and he knew we had some method we used, but he had no idea if it really worked or was just a bunch of hooey. Made a believer out of him.
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