Been waiting for my friend to call to say he weed wacked the tall grass and hay so I could hunt a couple of holes, but it's been awhile so I headed over to his farm with my own weed wacker and did the job myself.
Decided to set up on an area where I've shot one and missed one hoping something would show up, but I was still within a short distance of both holes where I cut the tall stuff. Laid down a matt, sat down, set up the 17 HMR on some short shooting sticks and waited.
In between sitting up and laying back on my elbows to pass the time, I thought I spotted movement at one of the holes. As I slowly sat up I could see a ghog take a peak in my direction and then disappear down its hole. That gave me time to move the gun and sticks from my left side to my right and line up the crosshairs.
It wasn't more than a minute or two when I spotted the ghog's head peaking out of its second hole which was closer to me than the first. But almost immediately, instead of diving back down the hole, it decides to sprint back to the first one. That was the fatal mistake. When it got back to the hole I gave a whistle, it stood straight up and I laid it straight out. It piled up right at the entrance to the hole. 22 yds with a quartering to my left. Because of the close distance, I aimed a little low, but the shot hit right where I aimed anyway. Dead is dead.
Here is a picture of the target area. The second/closer hole is right at the base of the rebar holding the electrified fence (turned off) in the center of the picture. The first hole is straight back from there at the base of the fence.
Here is the DRT shot, the entrance and the exit wounds. Looks like an older, non-nursing female. Decent size.
Decided to set up on an area where I've shot one and missed one hoping something would show up, but I was still within a short distance of both holes where I cut the tall stuff. Laid down a matt, sat down, set up the 17 HMR on some short shooting sticks and waited.
In between sitting up and laying back on my elbows to pass the time, I thought I spotted movement at one of the holes. As I slowly sat up I could see a ghog take a peak in my direction and then disappear down its hole. That gave me time to move the gun and sticks from my left side to my right and line up the crosshairs.
It wasn't more than a minute or two when I spotted the ghog's head peaking out of its second hole which was closer to me than the first. But almost immediately, instead of diving back down the hole, it decides to sprint back to the first one. That was the fatal mistake. When it got back to the hole I gave a whistle, it stood straight up and I laid it straight out. It piled up right at the entrance to the hole. 22 yds with a quartering to my left. Because of the close distance, I aimed a little low, but the shot hit right where I aimed anyway. Dead is dead.
Here is a picture of the target area. The second/closer hole is right at the base of the rebar holding the electrified fence (turned off) in the center of the picture. The first hole is straight back from there at the base of the fence.
Here is the DRT shot, the entrance and the exit wounds. Looks like an older, non-nursing female. Decent size.
