Game cam was showing a pig coming in late (close to midnight). Figured I would sit for long as I could stand it. Right 11 I was going to leave with one last look through the Binos. I have a very loose three strand barbed wire fence around the feeder and some how managed to shoot one of the wires in the back left corner! Thats were they always come in. He poked his in that spot then jumped out again. For twenty minutes he jumped and danced around the feeder pen and finally stood broad side for the squeeze! You touch off a 416 Rigby at night all you see for seconds is fire! Then no lump in the pen. The brush around the feeder is very thick then a little clear the very thick again before you get under some taller trees and it opens up a little. In stead of depending on a cow trail you would think I would cut some limbs cause this is the way they always run if they run! Crawling around on you hands and and knees with a RSM trailing blood with a flash light get old very fast. I quit and went back this morning. There is not line of sight so I am guessing 50 to 75 yards. A couple of hundred pounds.



Had my pups, they were of no help! He He Any body need a young female BMC?

Well done. And I agree: they ALWAYS manage to find the thick stuff if they happen to run. I was hoping to take advantage of the moonlight last night to see if anything was moving, but pain got the best of me. And tonight it's going to be heavily clouded.

Good job, great story. Congratulations.

Good work!

I'll be 66 this year. I quit going after them at night with a light in one hand and a pistol in the other while crawling though the scrum on my hands and knees, about 5 years ago. I figured that I'd quit while I was ahead.

Good Stuff!

ya!


GWB

That's a nice big hog, Live Oak.
Geedubya, right behind you -- 65 in March.

I only go looking if I am convinced they are leaking pretty well! Right they with yall, 65

Bill, and Gw, you guys are just kids! I have two young'uns that are as old as you guys. You've got plenty time left to hunt dem pokers!

.................................................................Just rattling your cages! keep those hogs in check!

Happy new year! Mac

I remember tracking my first big sow through some palmetto's on St. Vincent's Island. It was dark and we were using a coleman lantern. My buddy grew up in north Florida and had trailed a lot of hogs. As we are in the middle of a big patch of palmettos on our hands and knees he tells me this wouldn't be a good time to crawl up onto a big boar. He was just messing with the damn yankee, at the time I was more concerned about the hog.

Tom

Well done. Cheers Mick

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Bill, and Gw, you guys are just kids! I have two young'uns that are as old as you guys.

Mac, tell us some more Civil War stories! :-)

Live Oak - are you hunting in the San Angelo Area?