After working my butt off around the house most of the day, I needed some down time so around three I started making the rounds of my local hunting locations trolling for ghogs.
Most of the places I've shot one or more this season have not done a first cutting of the hay, so finding them is proving difficult to say the least.
I headed to one of the locations I have not been to in awhile and took a dirt road along the back of the property. As I'm driving and looking, I spot one between a small shed and the tall weeds, but it spots me too and heads for the safety of the shed. I stop the truck, get out the 17 HMR, load up with 20 gr Horady XTP ammo and get the gun up on the short bipods. As I look back at the shed I spot the hog entering the tall weeds. Now it's a game of cat and mouse while I wait for the hog to reappear.
I was at least fifteen minutes before it shows up again, but boogies straight for the shed. Patiently I wait and sure enough, it comes out from behind the shed and just as I pull the trigger it looks right at me and catches one almost between the eyes at 50 yds.
I grab the camera for the DRT pictures and find another female. Right now my results so far are about two to one female to male. Sure was a lot of blood on the ground and coming out of the hog's wound and nose. Here she is.
Afterwards I drive along the dirt road and stop a a place where I've seen one before. As I'm glassing, I turn to my right and spot one standing up staring right at me. It takes off for the high grass almost immediately. I spend the next twenty minutes making a blind using hay bales from a wagon for a stand tomorrow afternoon in hopes I see both ghogs by the end of the day.
Then I drove about a fifteen minutes to a farm where I spotted one on the way home from the place I sniped the female on Wednesday. Waited three hours, but the hog is a no show. Doesn't make any sense that a hog would not come out in prime feeding time before it hits the burrow for the night. This isn't over! I'll be back for sure!! 8)
Most of the places I've shot one or more this season have not done a first cutting of the hay, so finding them is proving difficult to say the least.
I headed to one of the locations I have not been to in awhile and took a dirt road along the back of the property. As I'm driving and looking, I spot one between a small shed and the tall weeds, but it spots me too and heads for the safety of the shed. I stop the truck, get out the 17 HMR, load up with 20 gr Horady XTP ammo and get the gun up on the short bipods. As I look back at the shed I spot the hog entering the tall weeds. Now it's a game of cat and mouse while I wait for the hog to reappear.
I was at least fifteen minutes before it shows up again, but boogies straight for the shed. Patiently I wait and sure enough, it comes out from behind the shed and just as I pull the trigger it looks right at me and catches one almost between the eyes at 50 yds.
I grab the camera for the DRT pictures and find another female. Right now my results so far are about two to one female to male. Sure was a lot of blood on the ground and coming out of the hog's wound and nose. Here she is.
Afterwards I drive along the dirt road and stop a a place where I've seen one before. As I'm glassing, I turn to my right and spot one standing up staring right at me. It takes off for the high grass almost immediately. I spend the next twenty minutes making a blind using hay bales from a wagon for a stand tomorrow afternoon in hopes I see both ghogs by the end of the day.
Then I drove about a fifteen minutes to a farm where I spotted one on the way home from the place I sniped the female on Wednesday. Waited three hours, but the hog is a no show. Doesn't make any sense that a hog would not come out in prime feeding time before it hits the burrow for the night. This isn't over! I'll be back for sure!! 8)
