.... but I'm pretty sure he won't be showing up again.
Last night around 11:30 I drove past the gate of the second pasture where my feeder sits about 200 yds. away to the NNE. The feeder light went on almost immediately, telling me something was there. With the wind blowing from me toward the feeder, I knew I couldn't just walk up to the feeder without a pig hearing and smelling me.
Not to worry - I'd previously cut a "hog superhighway" through the brush from the woods to my treestand about 30 yds. from the feeder, which sits SSE from the stand. All I had to do was circle around, and I could shoot him from ground level, a shot I'd practiced.
So I do just that, get up there, and wait for the feeder light to come back on. But when it does, I can't see the hog, and think it must be coons which the high grass prevents me from seeing.
But the next cycle of the light shows the boar right at the front of the feeder - about 25 yds. I draw the bow and touch the pressure switch to activate the bowlight, but that spooks him, and he wheels and leaves. Never had that happen before.
Well, I decide to stick around for a few more minutes, and son of a gun if he doesn't walk practically on top of me nmt 7-8 yds. just beyond the yaupons which are to my right, and which obstructed my vision of him up till then. At this point, I'm a little scared he will decide to take my weedeated trail back into the woods, running over me in the process.
But no, he's just sniffing the air, and knows there's still corn on the ground, so he circles back toward the feeder. He stops at what I estimate to be 15 yds., and I draw and shoot using just the pin light because I sure don't want him scared off by the bowlight again.
I have to aim for center mass as I can't even tell for sure which way he's turned - just his huge body is silhouetted. I shoot, and hear the impact, but know I'm a little low what with following the Nocturnal. I subsequently find the arrow in the grass with guts and feces all over it.
This morning I went back to look for a carcass, but none to be found. Doesn't surprise me, knowing now that he was actually 22 yds. from me, not the 15 I'd thought. No matter, I wasn't going to butcher him anyway - the buzzards and yotes will find him soon enough. I estimate he went about 275 lbs.
Last night around 11:30 I drove past the gate of the second pasture where my feeder sits about 200 yds. away to the NNE. The feeder light went on almost immediately, telling me something was there. With the wind blowing from me toward the feeder, I knew I couldn't just walk up to the feeder without a pig hearing and smelling me.
Not to worry - I'd previously cut a "hog superhighway" through the brush from the woods to my treestand about 30 yds. from the feeder, which sits SSE from the stand. All I had to do was circle around, and I could shoot him from ground level, a shot I'd practiced.
So I do just that, get up there, and wait for the feeder light to come back on. But when it does, I can't see the hog, and think it must be coons which the high grass prevents me from seeing.
But the next cycle of the light shows the boar right at the front of the feeder - about 25 yds. I draw the bow and touch the pressure switch to activate the bowlight, but that spooks him, and he wheels and leaves. Never had that happen before.
Well, I decide to stick around for a few more minutes, and son of a gun if he doesn't walk practically on top of me nmt 7-8 yds. just beyond the yaupons which are to my right, and which obstructed my vision of him up till then. At this point, I'm a little scared he will decide to take my weedeated trail back into the woods, running over me in the process.
But no, he's just sniffing the air, and knows there's still corn on the ground, so he circles back toward the feeder. He stops at what I estimate to be 15 yds., and I draw and shoot using just the pin light because I sure don't want him scared off by the bowlight again.
I have to aim for center mass as I can't even tell for sure which way he's turned - just his huge body is silhouetted. I shoot, and hear the impact, but know I'm a little low what with following the Nocturnal. I subsequently find the arrow in the grass with guts and feces all over it.
This morning I went back to look for a carcass, but none to be found. Doesn't surprise me, knowing now that he was actually 22 yds. from me, not the 15 I'd thought. No matter, I wasn't going to butcher him anyway - the buzzards and yotes will find him soon enough. I estimate he went about 275 lbs.
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