First I have to say a huge thank you to all that were involved in the hunt this weekend. What a fun group to hunt with. Secondly, the following is not made up, it really did happen. "The Rest of The Story..."
This story has so much to write about, I plan on a part I and II. It may take even go into part III or IV
Funny how a flip of a coin can change a weekend's events. This hunt, after the introductions started out with me and Jeff wanting to hunt the same spot on the ranch. We were hunting with Chamber's Bowhunting; chambersbowhunting.net The simplest way I have ever found to make a decision is to flip a coin and this time was no different. Heads, Jeff takes the spot; tails I find another area to hunt. Heads was the winner, so Jeff gets to hunt the "honey hole" or later to be nick-named "Chex Mix Alley".
My Friday night was exciting. I watched several types of exotics and numerous hogs over my sit, but I was really wanting to kill a large hog so the meat hogs got walking papers. That is until it got dark. There is something about a hog walking in front of me when the moon is up. I can't stand not breaking ribs on a moon lite road. I found four 80ish pound hogs and decided to put the slip on them and if I got a shot opp I would take it. Things worked out perfect. I had slipped up on them and they were 30 yards and closing fast. Full draw, pin on the shoulder and TWACK; SQUEAL and the first dead meat hog is going to the market.
Now, get on to the story you are thinking........ Well, here is where the night got funny.
We pull up where Jeff's dad was hunting and Jeff, Don, and Tracy are standing over a rather large boar. I stayed in the truck and waited for the group to start to drag the hog up to the truck, but after about 5 minutes I realized that no one was dragging but rather story telling. I got out of the truck and walked up to hear something about a charging boar, tree climbing and shooting a hog as he was charging. This was going to be a interesting story and just think, I lost the coin toss. I could have been in the mix of the excitement.
"Yea, there was two of them" Jeff says.
"And they came trotting up here Oinking", Tracy replied.
"We were scared out of our wits!", Jeff excitedly says
Tracy (with wide eyes) said "I was looking for a tree to climb!"
Jeff proudly says, "Yea, but as dad was holding the light on the big one, and after I finally found my release, I shot it. And got a good shot on it too!"
Now after Jeff mentions that they were "Two BIG Gray spotted hogs" Shawn the guide said, "About how big, what did they look like?"
After a brief description Shawn says, "OH HELL THOSE ARE BOTTLE FED PETS! A guy brought them over here just last week and turned them out."
About this time I am wondering what the hell is Shane talking about when Don (the other Don") says, "You want to see what hogs charged them?" I am thinking that there is a joke going down that I don't know about because the pictures on Don's camera was this..........
So, what was told as a mid-night terroring charge by mean Russian Hogs was nothing more than Wilbur and his side kick coming in to see if three grown men had any snacks or maybe they (the hogs) just wanted some TLC) but instead, had Larry, Moe and Curly running around, peeing in their pants, climbing trees and scrambling cover. Oh, and over the radio right after this happened Jeff, in a out of breath voice reported, "SHAWN! WE WERE JUST CHARGED BY TWO MEAN BOAR HOGS!"
Strange how a flip of a coin can change a man's life
(Part II continued after dinner)
This story has so much to write about, I plan on a part I and II. It may take even go into part III or IV
Funny how a flip of a coin can change a weekend's events. This hunt, after the introductions started out with me and Jeff wanting to hunt the same spot on the ranch. We were hunting with Chamber's Bowhunting; chambersbowhunting.net The simplest way I have ever found to make a decision is to flip a coin and this time was no different. Heads, Jeff takes the spot; tails I find another area to hunt. Heads was the winner, so Jeff gets to hunt the "honey hole" or later to be nick-named "Chex Mix Alley".
My Friday night was exciting. I watched several types of exotics and numerous hogs over my sit, but I was really wanting to kill a large hog so the meat hogs got walking papers. That is until it got dark. There is something about a hog walking in front of me when the moon is up. I can't stand not breaking ribs on a moon lite road. I found four 80ish pound hogs and decided to put the slip on them and if I got a shot opp I would take it. Things worked out perfect. I had slipped up on them and they were 30 yards and closing fast. Full draw, pin on the shoulder and TWACK; SQUEAL and the first dead meat hog is going to the market.
Now, get on to the story you are thinking........ Well, here is where the night got funny.
We pull up where Jeff's dad was hunting and Jeff, Don, and Tracy are standing over a rather large boar. I stayed in the truck and waited for the group to start to drag the hog up to the truck, but after about 5 minutes I realized that no one was dragging but rather story telling. I got out of the truck and walked up to hear something about a charging boar, tree climbing and shooting a hog as he was charging. This was going to be a interesting story and just think, I lost the coin toss. I could have been in the mix of the excitement.
"Yea, there was two of them" Jeff says.
"And they came trotting up here Oinking", Tracy replied.
"We were scared out of our wits!", Jeff excitedly says
Tracy (with wide eyes) said "I was looking for a tree to climb!"
Jeff proudly says, "Yea, but as dad was holding the light on the big one, and after I finally found my release, I shot it. And got a good shot on it too!"
Now after Jeff mentions that they were "Two BIG Gray spotted hogs" Shawn the guide said, "About how big, what did they look like?"
After a brief description Shawn says, "OH HELL THOSE ARE BOTTLE FED PETS! A guy brought them over here just last week and turned them out."
About this time I am wondering what the hell is Shane talking about when Don (the other Don") says, "You want to see what hogs charged them?" I am thinking that there is a joke going down that I don't know about because the pictures on Don's camera was this..........
So, what was told as a mid-night terroring charge by mean Russian Hogs was nothing more than Wilbur and his side kick coming in to see if three grown men had any snacks or maybe they (the hogs) just wanted some TLC) but instead, had Larry, Moe and Curly running around, peeing in their pants, climbing trees and scrambling cover. Oh, and over the radio right after this happened Jeff, in a out of breath voice reported, "SHAWN! WE WERE JUST CHARGED BY TWO MEAN BOAR HOGS!"
Strange how a flip of a coin can change a man's life
(Part II continued after dinner)
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