Hi everyone,

Well, I returned exactly one week after I set the new feeder.

The first picture was from the day we set the feeder just before leaving We do some machete marks in the pine....medium size, BIG size, and MONSTER size



This other is one of many the trail cam took during the week...I am a genius finding the hairy bastards



I will set one more feeder and some other stuff before starting the culling

One more thing, never EVER leave the truck without a gun !!! we were looking another place fto hang another feeder, I was walking 30 yards away from the truck when a beatiful and tasty axis buck jump near me and disapeared in the thick brush...

L

Looks like you've found another incredible spot for some hunting. I will be anxiously awaiting the photos!!!

Excellent pictures Lorenzo, looks like you guys will have some Good Times working that set-up.

Lorenzo: Congratulations !!! , I remember that place !!! looks like very soon You and Federico will have a lot of meat for the winter !!!
I hope You have lucky to meet the "Mr. Tusk guy" very soon .One of the pictures maybe of a female looks interesting, but watch out with the Porteño sojero cortapuentes furtivo !!!

well done fella!! looks like fun times ahead.

Lorenzo,
Whack'em and stack'em
Expect to see pix of pork on the ground soon.
GWB

I forget to tell you a little incident that happened that night..

The wind was not good so we decided not to stay at the feeder and we went to walk and stalk in an already harvested cornfield.

We walk a couple of hours and nothing, there was no moon at all so the night was very dark, even for me that I was using an old militar night vision googles and carrying a 12 v 7 amp battery with a spotlight, while Federico was carrying the ol'30-06 with a fixed Leupold 6x42 reticle #4.

Suddenly I saw a small black spot running up and down the field..PIGS !!!

I grab my hunting buddy by his arm and step by step very slowly we started to shorten distances.

Then they started moving towards us, we lay down, they were many !!! It seems the ground where they were feeding on, was different, like a yellowish grass and not the harvested cornfield.

We wait something like 20 minutes that look like two hours....I was still as a statue, the mozzies by millions were feeding on my blood. My face was covered with them, and me the brave hunter nothing, as I said, more rigid than a statue !!!

I was enjoying imagining my buddy's face when I turn on the light, the pigs were big and moving toward us !! I was very proud of myself for the perfect ambush I set.

I whisper to Federico, stand up and get ready, I will turn the light on.

Finally I do it and many black shapes stood there looking at us...as always everything seems near at night, but when you turn on the lights things are further away you thought and lots of no seen brushes in the middle.

A couple of seconds and nothing, I was waiting to Federico's rifle to go BANG but nothing..

I shout SHOOOOOOT..he bring down the rifle and said..those are...c-o-w-s !!!

I said what !!!!!!??????

Indeed, a big confirmed the worst...those were a bunch of young black angus heifers in a longer grass !!!!

The clear ground I was watching was another pasture separated from us by one electric wire that I never saw before

So, I went down from being "the brave white hunter" that allowed thousands of mozzies to fed on his face without a blink, to feel the most miserable hunter in several square miles around.

As someone said..shit happens...

We must tell the battles we won, but now and then we also loose some.

The thing is to keep, in the long term, the equation in our side...and to don't give up when we screw it

L

Thats the thing about imigination and anticipation. Always better than the real thing. Better luck next time.
Also, I do not know if you have them there but the "thermocells" really work for keeping gnats, mosquitos flies and " no see ums" off your body. Cream of Tartar tablets and eating lots of garlic seems to work also.
GWB

Lorenzo, remember when looking from the side, if the backs are straight they are COWS. If there is an arch to the back they are PIGGIES.

I hope this will save a few Angus cattle from an early trip to the freezer.

Good hunting.


Keith

That second picture, looks like a good spot to set up my 1 1/2" cannon(38m/m). Loaded with 72 .50" lead balls. Kind of like a punt gun on wheels, but for pigs.


Keith