Wild Hogs recovered To Bowhunting.net | Wild Hog Network Home Page Wild Hog Bowhunt on March 18, 2005

Crack! The hog bolted into the brush. Crashing through everything in its way. The fletching end of the arrow flew into the air. The hog stopped -- out of sight -- and got loud, roaring furiously, and violently breaking branches and brush. The other hogs moved to my left and grunted aggressively. The shot hog went silent. The others got silent. I felt my heart beating, strong and fast. I stood up, still feeling the excitement of it all. There were two options, go after the hog now ... or return to the truck and wait. My hit was good and I didn't want to wait. The blood trail went into thicker brush than I wanted to crawl through so I used trails and a dry creek bed to make a 60 yard circle.  Nothing.  I moved 30 yards into the brush and zig zagged through the trees and brush. Blood spots on leaves got me on track. I moved carefully, looking around me rather than at the blood, and not wanting to make any extra noise. If the hog was still alive I wanted to be sure and hear it if it got up. There it was  ... laying in the brush ... not moving. But to be sure I picked up a large rock and bounced it off the hog. No reaction.  NEXT