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Bowhunting For Wild Hogs on 6/15/03
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| June 15: Without a sound, of course, a doe
stepped out of the brush to my left. The trail it was on led to my
stand area. Twenty yards from me it stopped abruptly and looked
over its shoulder. Then it came closer and stopped
again, on alert. This time I heard the problem, too, wild hogs. The
deer darted away.
Seconds later, two adult sows and twenty or so young pigs were in sight. I took a pic of them down through the leaves in my tree and a quartering away pic of one of the sows. Then I carefully slipped my bow off its hook and drew and aimed at the largest hog. My arrow hit solidly in the vitals and the hog ran back the way it came. The other adult hog ran only a few steps and stopped, apparently confused by the commotion. I slipped an arrow out of my bowquiver and nocked it. The hog walked into the brush just in time. I waited until the next morning to recover the hog. There was no blood trail, which is about par for the course with wild hogs. I found it in a rocky draw 150 yards away. My camera was in the truck so I marked the spot with florescent pink flagging tape and took a few steps up the rocky incline out of the draw. The long, thin shed skin of a rattle snake caught my eye and I stopped. The skin looked eerily fresh and I surveyed the area. Nothing around. Two steps later a rattler sounded off a few feet ahead of me. It coiled and raised its head and slid its body closer to me. I snatched up a large rock and bounced it off the snake's noggin. Instantly it retreated a couple of feet and buzzed even louder. Quickly, I grabbed a rock that took 2 hands to hold. Oh, oh ... now I could not locate the snake! I got out of there pronto. When I returned with my camera, and bow, my camera view screen would not light up and I was unable to take a picture of the hog. As I drug the hog out of the rocks I was a little jumpy. Rattlesnakes will do that to you. |
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