Remember that I told you once that I saw this:


And that after that I decided to set up a feeder... do you also remember all the hard working under the rain....?


Well, let me tell you a story about friendship, beers and one of my best moments as a hunter (despite I don't pull the trigger)

The night was very warm and calm and we sat early at our blind, my hunting buddy Federico and I, decided to shoot both at the same time to whatever appears first so we mount small spotlights on our rifle scopes and agreed that at the count of three both will turn on the lights and shoot.

It was chosen that I will do the counting, so when the moment arrived I started...one, two, three...

I turn the spotlight on but inmediately I turned off because of a bad movement , so Federico instead of turning the light on inmediatley, he wait some precious seconds before following the plan because he was confused because of my fault (turning on and off the light).

When he decided to turn on his light I was again in the game but the only thing I saw was a pig at full speed jumping into the brush.

Federico's rifle went BANG but it was impossible to know what happened as the pig was nearly flying when he shot. The shot was at the same moment the pig was entering the brush.

I was so mad and angry because of my screw up that I was remembering all my family including my mother and my sisters

Federico was very sad and he just said "bad luck, maybe next time...", I was so angry that I was unable to answer him, he knew me enough to know that the trip back home will be loooooong and VERY silent !!

We start talking about how things happened and Federico told me that he heard the pig breaking branches as he runs away from us.

I looked at him and asked him if he was sure of that, he told me that yes, and inmediately a search was organized. Normally when you heard branches breaking is because the pig "is touched".

We walk around the area and aprox. 100 metres from where the pig was shot I saw BLOOD !!!!!

I call Federico to join me and we start very slowly, drop by drop to follow the wounded pig.

At that moment we don't have idea if it was a light wound or something more important, the shot Federico did was nearly impossible so I wasn't very optimist, it's more..I BLAME Federico for taking a shot that will spook the pig from the area for a while.

Well to make this loooong story short, I screwed the hunt but I fixed finding THAT tiny drop of blood. And after some intense minutes playing to be african trackers we find this....







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Federico and his trophy.


After we saw the pig I was so happy that I started yealling and kicking and hitting Federico, I nearly destroy him !!

About the beers, well, we shot the pig at 10 pm and we arrived home at 9 am !!!!!!!

L

Very nice pig! Good job on the night tracking.

Sorry but more "larger" pictures..



L

Sounds like a great time was had by all. Great boar. Its hard to describe the depths of despair I sink to when I can't find a great trophy and the feeling of elation when I do find him. Thanks for posting. Keep those pix and reports coming
GWB

Wow! that's a fantastic Boar. I'm pleased you found him.
Is it El Grande?

Lorenzo,

Great hunt! You never know how these adventures will turn out. Good looking boar.

Matt

Geez, you could through a saddle on those!!!

Congrats,

Bob

OINK...OINK;


Thats some pig!

You should try the red light with a reastat,hooked up to a car battery....

Nice tracking job!


Dan

That more than makes up for all the hard work.
Congrats,
Jeff

Outstanding boar Lorenzo!! Great story and a very successful hunt! You did well -- very well! That is one big and toothy boar!

You can't take anything for granted in hunting, and sometimes things are anything but easy.

But by working hard to find this big fellow, it all paid off.

Congrats...that is a NICE BOAR!

Thanks gentlemen!!
It was really a BIG pig, take a look at the pict where I am sitting ontop him and keep in mind that I am 6,33 feet tall and I weight around 200 lb. His chest is wider than mine !!

Shankspony,
Not it was not El Grande
This pig was taken in another property, we named him El Rabón (the one without tail). I have been waching him for a while and we noticed he has no tail at all.

Pictures of him in two separated feeders (3 kilometres between both feeders)Notice the absence of tail.

Feeder A (we wait here for him the previous night and he never show up)


Feeder B (where we final "contact" him)


The place (sorry the quality of the pic, it was taken with my cell phone)
One dot = the tree where the feeder is.
Two dots = where he was when we turn on the light and the cross = the place where the shot was taken just as he was going behind the tree.


woodmanDan,
Believe it or not, a few minutes before the action I told Federico that we need to try with a reastat !!!!!

In this same area is another famous pig named El Patón because the size of his tracks, it has killed many dogs and many locals have tried to kill it without success, we think it's not the same the one we kill so...

Now we must start thinking in El Grande, or in El Patón, or in......etc, etc, etc

L

That is one, big pig! Congrats guys!

do you know of any outfitters that book these kinds of hunts?

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Originally posted by Brian T:
do you know of any outfitters that book these kinds of hunts?

Where, Brian? Oh, and welcome to the forum!

Brian,

Buy me some cattle embryos or some bovine semen straws and I will take you for free !!!

Run away of anyone offering this size of pig as something sure, I work hard, very hard to have a chance in pigs and it's not an everyday thing to find this size of pig. It's the biggest pig I kill so far and I am 41, so make some numbers considering that I go hunting once or twice per month and so far this year I was able to shoot 15 pigs...

Hey Whitworth, if sometime you want to spend some dollars in an airplane ticket to fly down here the rest is "on the house"

Man, as the most enthusiastic member in the pig hunting forum, you deserve it !!

L

I may just have to take you up on that, Lorenzo! I would love to hunt down south! I can't help being enthusiastic, I love hunting hogs and I don't do enough of it any more!

Outstanding piggie!!

Lorenzo. The boar is truly a magnificent example of the biggest and the best. And the best part is the work, the effort and the hunt itself. Sausage for the next two years.....

Good on you and your pal... If I had one wish to be granted, aside from the health of my family, it would be to live in Argentina and Uruguay. I am very concerned about the political situation now in Argentina. How are things in your country?

Well so far, as someone here says :

Wait for the best, prepare for the worst

L