Although I was rained on all day Saturday, I still saw lots of deer activity – several doe/fawn pairs and a few ‘almost shooter’ bucks.
Saturday evening I saw something I had never seen before: an 8 pt. buck giving the stink eye to a 100# hog and keeping him away. Every time I’ve seen a deer under a feeder when a hog approached, the deer would leave, or when hogs are under the feeder, deer would stay a good distance away. But this 3 ½ year old buck was hungry for corn and was not having any nonsense from the hog. The hog lurked around 20 yards from the feeder (in brush so I couldn’t get a clear shot) for 15 minutes not wanting to tangle with the buck.
Sunday morning the rain had stopped. It was about 6:30 when I parked my ATV ½ mile from my tripod. As I sprayed down and picked up my bow, I heard grunting and snorting about 20 feet away in the dark. Based on past experiences, and amplified by the fact that I had no firearm, I was pretty sure it was a sasquatch.
The grunting and snorting continued not far away as I made my nervous trek to my tripod. As I arrived, I could see 20+ dark spots all around the feeder, grunting, snorting, and rooting around. (Apparently a whole pack of sasquatch.)
They stayed there as I climbed my tripod and got settled in. But it was too dark to be able to get a shot off.
Before long, they wandered into the woods.
However, at a little after 7 a.m., four or five of them came back out. It was getting light enough that with my sight light on I could make out my 20 yard pin through my peep. I let an arrow fly and I knew it made contact. The spotted hog ran off a little ways but I could tell he crashed pretty close. His buddies then congregated around him - I could make out their images through the brush and could hear their snorting around. In fact, it sounded like they were ‘canabalizing’ their fallen buddy for about 5 minutes. (They hadn’t, but it sure sounded like it.)
My feeder went off at 7:15. About four hogs came out again and the brown sow presented a nice quartering away shot. After my shot, she bolted toward the woods.
As it got lighter, I could see both of my arrows on the ground, and my binos showed a good amount of blood on each - letting me know I had complete pass throughs on both pigs.
I saw several deer as the morning progressed, but they were pretty sketchy. (The wind was right in my face from the direction of the feeder, so I wasn’t getting busted by the deer.) Once I exited my tripod around 9 a.m., I discovered why the deer were so nervous – neither hog made it more than 20 yards from where they were shot! I’ve never had such an easy recovery of hogs and I had two in the same morning.
Woo hoo! Switchback XT, Muzzy 3 blades, Beeman 400 ICS Hunters
Saturday evening I saw something I had never seen before: an 8 pt. buck giving the stink eye to a 100# hog and keeping him away. Every time I’ve seen a deer under a feeder when a hog approached, the deer would leave, or when hogs are under the feeder, deer would stay a good distance away. But this 3 ½ year old buck was hungry for corn and was not having any nonsense from the hog. The hog lurked around 20 yards from the feeder (in brush so I couldn’t get a clear shot) for 15 minutes not wanting to tangle with the buck.
Sunday morning the rain had stopped. It was about 6:30 when I parked my ATV ½ mile from my tripod. As I sprayed down and picked up my bow, I heard grunting and snorting about 20 feet away in the dark. Based on past experiences, and amplified by the fact that I had no firearm, I was pretty sure it was a sasquatch.
The grunting and snorting continued not far away as I made my nervous trek to my tripod. As I arrived, I could see 20+ dark spots all around the feeder, grunting, snorting, and rooting around. (Apparently a whole pack of sasquatch.)
They stayed there as I climbed my tripod and got settled in. But it was too dark to be able to get a shot off.
Before long, they wandered into the woods.
However, at a little after 7 a.m., four or five of them came back out. It was getting light enough that with my sight light on I could make out my 20 yard pin through my peep. I let an arrow fly and I knew it made contact. The spotted hog ran off a little ways but I could tell he crashed pretty close. His buddies then congregated around him - I could make out their images through the brush and could hear their snorting around. In fact, it sounded like they were ‘canabalizing’ their fallen buddy for about 5 minutes. (They hadn’t, but it sure sounded like it.)
My feeder went off at 7:15. About four hogs came out again and the brown sow presented a nice quartering away shot. After my shot, she bolted toward the woods.
As it got lighter, I could see both of my arrows on the ground, and my binos showed a good amount of blood on each - letting me know I had complete pass throughs on both pigs.
I saw several deer as the morning progressed, but they were pretty sketchy. (The wind was right in my face from the direction of the feeder, so I wasn’t getting busted by the deer.) Once I exited my tripod around 9 a.m., I discovered why the deer were so nervous – neither hog made it more than 20 yards from where they were shot! I’ve never had such an easy recovery of hogs and I had two in the same morning.
Woo hoo! Switchback XT, Muzzy 3 blades, Beeman 400 ICS Hunters
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