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Truth told we were out after foxes. 12 degree F. We called and whistled for a couple of hours and saw two or three foxes but they were not playing. We stopped for a 'tea break'. Nothing like a hot drink to warm you up on a freezing night. Lots of roe deer and hare on the snow covered fields. My son got a message on his phone. A picture from a camera on one of our feeders / baits. A sounder of six or seven pigs on the bait. We drove there quickly in the Landy 90, and - engine off - rolling to a stop my son got out and stalked / walked into the woods to the bait lane with a small fixed 'Kanzel' at the top of the site. He glassed down the lane and saw the sounder, pigs, heads down, rooting in the snow for the buried maize. Picking out a pig in the Meopta sight of his Blaser R8 in .223, shooting RWS factory 55 grs softpoints, and taking a rest on the side of the Kanzel, he put a round into the pig's right ear and saw his pig go down in the snow! Crimson blood on pure white snow. A total contrast! Dressed out at 50 lbs thats a great eating pig especially on the coming cold February evenings! Out again Friday!





As a ps and for those that are interested, in Germany you are then required to submit 60 plus grammes of muscle tissue taken from the diaphragm and either of the forelegs to the local State Vet's office for a trichinosis test. The State Vet's office performs the test within 48 hours and only gets in contact with you in the event the pig is contaminated. In which case you have to submit the carcass for disposal to the State Vet. You get an ear tag from the vet and that has to go on the pig when you take it to the butcher or DIY butcher. I'll drop the pig at the butchery on Friday, where it will hang a while and can then be processed for us.



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Waidmannsheil!

Good shot! I do not envy yall in the snow! Supposed to be in the teens here Sunday and Monday. I won't be out!

Hey Charley:

Lot more snow than here, and it's warmer too.

Tell the kid that's a good shot and get a few

more soon.

George

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George / gents, thanks and I will tell him. Just got indoors from the concession. 10 degrees F this evening. Took a great friend of mine out and he had two pigs - around the 50 kg mark - come in at exactly midnight to the baits. He shot the front one of the two, 7x57 on the shoulder. Pig took off. He called me to come. I got there and he was scanning the spot where the pig had stood with his flashlight. No blood, no signs, nothing. I tracked in the direction the pig had run, casting a wide circle and after a few minutes, I found a good blood trail - lots of lung blood; again bright crimson blood on the pure white snow. Such a contrast! It was a great trail to follow and after 25 meters through the woods there was the pig, laying on his side, a 45 kg boar, shot through the lungs left to right, with some lung material hanging out of the exit wound, hence no blood where the pig took the shot. Maybe a few inches back but all the same a dead pig. We gutted and cleaned the boar, taking muscle samples for the trichinosis test, and then my friend recounted the story to me of the nine deer, the badger and then the two pigs that he saw this evening! Out hunting with great friends - hard to beat!






Not the best picture - sorry.

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Great stories and the pictures look good to me. We have no pigs here in the state of Misery and actually I'm happy. I have to drive a while to get to pigs. Be Well, Packy.