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Hunters
     
Michael Middleton
      Casey Morris
      Glenn Lemke
     

Location
   
Cotulla, TX 

Dates
    January 1, 2001

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Brush Country Special:  The Return!



Monday Morning

With the lack of deer activity for the weekend, it sure was tempting to sleep in this morning, but we sure didn't want to leave empty handed.  There seemed to be more of a chill in the air this morning, and after putting on an extra layer of clothing beneath our Brush Country Camouflage, we made our final trips to our respective stand locations. 

By 8:30, I had seen enough of not enough, and radioed Casey to see what he and Glenn were seeing in the pear flat.  His radio was not transmitting clearly, but I thought I heard him say something about shooting a hog.  I radioed and asked him to repeat what he said, but again I only heard something about shooting a hog.  I radioed for him to "buzz" me if he had shot a hog.  A few seconds later, I felt the "Vibra Alert" feature of the Cobra Mictotalk III FRS radio tremble in my hands.  I radioed for him to buzz me again if he needed help tracking.  At that point, he removed his Push To Talk mic from the radio and I could now read him clearly.  He said that he had shot a hog before it got daylight, and after reviewing the shot, which he had captured using the Super Night Shot on his Sony camera, it appeared that he had hit pretty far back, but there was good blood on the arrow. Click on the picture to see the shot in Super Night Shot!

I told him I'd come help with the tracking.  I removed the Gametamer and my treesteps from the tree before walking back to the four wheeler to ride over to Casey's stand to help.  I didn't want to disturb Glenn, who was still hunting in his tripod, so I walked to Casey's stand from the creek side.  As I arrived, Casey showed me the arrow, and then the blood trail that ended 10 feet from the arrow.  On hands and knees we searched, but came up with nothing.  I stayed and continued to comb the ground for blood, while Casey decided to walk in the direction he thought the sow might have headed after the shot.  A few moments later, I heard Casey call, and walked 75 yards to find Casey standing over his first bow-killed hog!  The arrow had hit far back, but did not puncture the paunch, apparently clipping the liver with the Thunderhead broadhead.  The sow was much bigger than she had appeared to Casey as he shot and to me as I reviewed the video.  Interestingly, we tried to back-track the hog to see if we could find the trail, but other than blood at the arrow, and blood a couple of feet from the hog, there was no other sign.  We were fortunate to find her, as there was absolutely no blood trail to assist us in the search.

We took some pictures, retrieved our stands and quickly loaded our gear for the return trip home.  I am disappointed that in two trips to the farm that we didn't see more deer than we did.  We did see hogs on both trips, though not with the same frequency that we see them in Encinal.  I'm encouraged by the eight point that Glenn saw, and hope to do a little work to increase our odds for next season, as I fully intend to return a few times a year from now.  I'm sure Casey will expect another invitation then, as he's been the only hunter on two trips to successfully arrow an animal, including his spike in December and his hog this weekend!