Bowhunting For Wild Hogs - 2005
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2005 - A Wild Hog Bowhunt In Progress

(June 7) Here they come!
I parked my truck in the coastal field and walked toward the woods. Forty yards from the Slew Hole fence a flock of wild turkeys saw me and moved out. Several poults flew up in the trees. I didn't want to buggar them any worse so I took a 50 yard detour and crossed the fence on an H-Post and took a few steps through the thick brush to the main trail.

Grrrrunt !!! 

Wild hogs! Coming my way! 

Six 60 pounders were coming on the same trail I was on. A big spotted one was in the rear. They were on me quick and didn't appear to see me either. I was pulling an arrow out when the lead ones stopped a couple yards away, and grunted at me.

I guess ol' spot thought something was messing with the young hogs cause she came in loud, with an attitude. I drew before the sow was in the clear and held as it walked straight toward me. The sow stopped 6 steps away and growled at me. I didn't want to shoot it in the head unless I had to.

The sow bolted into their back trail and I couldn't get on the vitals. Poof, they all were gone.

More grunts ... but in the opposite direction !!!

I ran to the NorthStarr ladder stand, climbed up and nocked an arrow. The hogs were there in seconds. I got my camera on an opening and took a pic of a 50 lb. brown hog.

A larger one, a boar, was in the rear. It was moving and the hog is blurred a little, but you can still see there is a notaceable size difference. 

With my camera hanging loose around my neck, I clipped my release on the string loop, and drew. But the boar was on the move, chasing the other hogs around the brush below. It stopped for an instant and my pin found the vitals and I pulled the trigger. The arrow hit quartering in and the hogs exited noisily. A loud crash sounded and the other hogs kept running.

Two does came down my trail from different directions and I took their pictures. The one on the right looks ready to drop her fawns any day. 

Then I got down and walked toward the crash The boar was 30 yards away at the edge of the brush. I tried to pull it into the open but it was too heavy.

I got my truck and pulled him to a clear spot with a Rope Ratchet hoist. And set my tripod up and took my own picture. 

EQUIPMENT COMMENTS:
On today's hunt these products helped make the hunt a success.

• BowTech's Patriot VFT set at 64 pounds, put my arrow where my pin was This is a fast, accurate and powerful bow. It's short too and that's an asset in a tree and the thick woods. 
• Rope Ratchet - The Hang-Em-High Hoist was not designed to be a tow roap but it was up to the task and moved the hog for a better picture.
• Sticks N' Limbs Camouflage - Even though there is no green in it the big camo pattern still breaks up your outline. The first hogs walked up right to me and were totally surprised as well as unsure of what I was. The 2nd group didn't have a clue I was there even though I did a lot more moving than usual to get on the moving boar.
• Super Starr Ladder Stand - I could have never gotten up a tree fast or quiet enough to be ready for the approaching hogs without this North Starr Treestands ladder stand. 
• Scent Killer - Hogs were all around me, up wind, down wind, everywhere. Nothing smelled me and went on alert. The combination of Scent Killer shampoo, bar soap, underarm deodorant and spray on my clothes and boots did the job. (by Wildlife Research Center)
• Venom Peep Sight's Blue color and the perfect size hole for bowhunting make you center your sight and pin automatically. The elastic tether lines it up right. This is the best peep this bowhunter ever used.
• Spot-Hogg Hunter Bowsight - The hero of this hunt. The shot opportunity was only an instant and I had to get the fiber optic top pin on the hog fast. Otherwise the boar would have gotten been past my stand without a chance to shoot. It didn't
• Fine-Line's Hunter Bowquiver is one of my all time favorites. Arrows come out of it quickly and quietly -- and as fast as things came down today I needed some of that.
• INNERLOC's EXP expandable broadhead downed this hog out in 30 yards. The broadhead went in the liver and punched through in front of the left front leg and penetrated to the feathers in the wild boar's tough front shield. 
• I used blue EZE Eye Arrow Wraps with blue barred Gateway Feathers. The extra color showed me exactly where I hit the hog. Knowing that gave me the confidence to go after it right away.
• Only 1 arrow is left and it's time to fletch some more. I fletched the others with the Arizona EZ Carbon Fletch with straight fletch arms. (I prefer straight fletch over helical.) 
• Jim Fletcher's .44 Caliper wrist release shoot smoothly and quietly when I needed it to.