Three of the farms I hunt regularly cut hay this weekend. So many choices
Choose one that has a remote field that slopes down and I can view the entire field from the top plus it's shaded - old farts like comfort - maybe too much.
Approached the field at about 4:00 PM walking up to the top to set up. Instead of concealing my approach I walk up on the cut side of the field along a tree line instead of the other side which has corn. Bad idea - a hog is out - saw me - and ran into the tree line. In my younger days I would have never approached the field this way but I'm and old fart now and getting soft.
i.e. walking in a cut field in infinitely easier than walking between a tree line and a stand of seven feet height corn.
I finally set up in my nice comfortable chair, rifle resting my my shooting cross stick. The weather is absolutely perfect - warm but not hot - sunny - very little wind. There's nothing like a freshly cut hay field - well in my younger days... but that thought is censored. Hoping that the one I spooked will show - he doesn't - probably spooked him at the end of his feeding cycle I conclude. But it's early - maybe he'll show later for an evening snack.
See another hog emerge in the center of the field - rare these days - holes in the field - large hog - crawler - 161 yards. Have my Rem Model 7, 223 Rem, send a 50 Nosler, hog down.
Later confirm large male - monster class. Perfect shot - just behind the shoulder.
Twenty minute later another hog emerges from the tree line to my extreme right, 129 yards - crawler. Sent another 50 Nosler, hog down. Great start - getting into the hunt. Later confirm a young hog - probably two years old. Pushed shot to left but good enough.
Hunt goes to hell - farmer in adjacent farm starts bailing hay in field next to the one I'm hunting.
It's about 5:00 PM - prime time!!! (Expletives deleted) With no other choice - I go to another smaller field but see nothing except a bunch of deer. It's 7:00 PM and the sun is going down. Go back to the first field BUT this time I conceal my approach marching through the corn - a pain but if possible I want another crack at that hog I spooked earlier. Praying I don't run into a skunk in the heavy brush as I march up to the top of the field.
Farmer in adjacent farm is gone. but no hogs seen. 
About fifteen minute later the one I spooked comes rolling out - fairly sure he's the same one since he is monster size class and emerges from the same location where I saw him before (later confirm single hole location in tree line.) Crawler - 181 yards - send a 50 Nosler. Hog down. Go check him out - monster - large male - one of the largest I ever shot. Three ghogs is a 5 Star hunt for me with no misses especially improving my tactics to get a crack at that one I spooked.
Choose one that has a remote field that slopes down and I can view the entire field from the top plus it's shaded - old farts like comfort - maybe too much. Approached the field at about 4:00 PM walking up to the top to set up. Instead of concealing my approach I walk up on the cut side of the field along a tree line instead of the other side which has corn. Bad idea - a hog is out - saw me - and ran into the tree line. In my younger days I would have never approached the field this way but I'm and old fart now and getting soft.
i.e. walking in a cut field in infinitely easier than walking between a tree line and a stand of seven feet height corn. I finally set up in my nice comfortable chair, rifle resting my my shooting cross stick. The weather is absolutely perfect - warm but not hot - sunny - very little wind. There's nothing like a freshly cut hay field - well in my younger days... but that thought is censored. Hoping that the one I spooked will show - he doesn't - probably spooked him at the end of his feeding cycle I conclude. But it's early - maybe he'll show later for an evening snack.
See another hog emerge in the center of the field - rare these days - holes in the field - large hog - crawler - 161 yards. Have my Rem Model 7, 223 Rem, send a 50 Nosler, hog down.
Later confirm large male - monster class. Perfect shot - just behind the shoulder.Twenty minute later another hog emerges from the tree line to my extreme right, 129 yards - crawler. Sent another 50 Nosler, hog down.
Great start - getting into the hunt. Later confirm a young hog - probably two years old. Pushed shot to left but good enough.Hunt goes to hell - farmer in adjacent farm starts bailing hay in field next to the one I'm hunting.
It's about 5:00 PM - prime time!!! (Expletives deleted) With no other choice - I go to another smaller field but see nothing except a bunch of deer. It's 7:00 PM and the sun is going down. Go back to the first field BUT this time I conceal my approach marching through the corn - a pain but if possible I want another crack at that hog I spooked earlier. Praying I don't run into a skunk in the heavy brush as I march up to the top of the field.Farmer in adjacent farm is gone.
but no hogs seen. About fifteen minute later the one I spooked comes rolling out - fairly sure he's the same one since he is monster size class and emerges from the same location where I saw him before (later confirm single hole location in tree line.) Crawler - 181 yards - send a 50 Nosler. Hog down. Go check him out - monster - large male - one of the largest I ever shot. Three ghogs is a 5 Star hunt for me with no misses especially improving my tactics to get a crack at that one I spooked.
