Grabbed the longbow and headed for the swamp this evening. I decided there would be no "exploring" today. It was getting late and I was headed straight for one of my public land honey holes. I hoped to kill a pig 5 minutes out of the truck but had a swamp about 3 miles deep to hunt.
The last gun hunt of the year was last weekend so I figured I would have to go deep but hoped the rain this past weekend had slowed the Riflemen up some and kept them closer to the road.
As usual I was very disappointed in my gun toting partners. Orange flags were strung in trees 10 feet apart from the parking spot to about a 100 yards in the woods. I pulled the leftover flagging down mumbling something about someone should be home knitting or something if they can`t find their way back to a road they can see from the tree.I dropped off in the swamp a good bit West of my usual starting spot and got a bearing on the Black Lake and headed to the back....
I forgot to change batteries in my camera again so I did`nt get many scenery pics,sorry bout that. I changed them just now for my trip up to Ocmulgee WMA tomorrow Lord Willing.
I passed through the swamp between the "Corner" and the "Hole" and stopped to take one pic...
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Rambled on through listening for pigs as I went. Leaves were deep and a feeding drove of hogs would be easy to locate if they were out and about.
I slipped on through to one of my "parking" spots when I hunt from a boat and rested a bit. I f I don`t stop and sit a while I catch myself going way to fast through places that deserve attention. Snapped a pic here. My Good friend Dave from Wisconsin killed a St. Judes pig near here....
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I then went past the two mile oak...You can guess where that name came from and spotted a couple white flags bouncing off at a distance. Always a few deer back here.I made a big circle in a bad wind in order to follow the edge of a huge thicket back through at prime time...
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I crossed a small slew where my Buddy Chris killed a monster 8 pt last year and heard a drove of hogs feeding in a big oak flat. I eased on up and spotted a blue pig. He stood out in the crowd of solid black ones and one big Red sow.
I quickly got to 40 yards fearing a swirling wind. Its impossible to be quiet in the leaves so I did the pig rooting shuffle with my feet till I got behind a huge Water Oak. I had a black boar about 100 lbs at 15 yards and was waiting for him to turn side ways when a smaller guilt I had not seen walked from behind a cypress and started shuffling leaves at 4 yards. A Bird in hand is always best...
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Purty good trail for a two blade head I`d say.And about 60 yards later, PORK!!!
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Don`t laugh at the hat its been lucky two days in a row..Thank You Lord,RC.
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Awesome hunt! Congrats on your hog. :thumbsup:
RC Congrats on the nice hog, Thanks for taking us along on your Hunt!
This is getting monotonous. :biglaugh:
Congratulations! I really enjoy the outdoors through your experiences.
Another great swamp hunt!!!
Wow, nice story and pics. Great hunt. Way to go.
Congrats on the pork and thanks RC, your posts are always much enjoyed!
haha! good story.
Thank RC for taking us along
Thanks for the wonderful story and pics. Nice piggy!!! :goldtooth:
Laugh at the hat? Heck, with luck like that, I want two!!!
Thanks for reminding me of the "pig rooting shuffle" . I had heard of it somewhere before ( probably one of your post) but had forgot. Hopefully it will come in handy this weekend
your on fire this year Bud
Great job, your hunts are very entertaining to read about. Keep up the good work.
Very nice Robert, God bless and have a great Christmas.
Way to go RC!
Great job! I will be going after some public land pork next weekend. Hopefully I'll have story to post.
Thanks for taking us along! I do love your swamp posts.
:biglaugh: Nice Hat.
LOL Nice pig too,
I love these posts RC. You are one passionate dude! Keep at it. God Bless!
Congrats RC. Love reading your adventures!
Nice, way to go Robert.
Congrats RC, thanks for taking us along for the trip.
Hog slayin' machine.
Deer slayin' machine.
Arrow slingin' man for sure!!
You need a head mount video camera RC. You could school alot of us. Me at the top of the list of needing schooling. Man what an apex hunter!
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great job robert way to put the bacon down!!
Congrats on another great hunt RC! Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy reading about your adventures!
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Way to go RC!
Looks like your having fun
Nice hunt RC..
That homemade bow is treating you right or maybe you're treating it right !
Nice hunt .... and I like the hat!
Way to go RC! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Cool hat!
I don't think it's the hat RC. Nice work!
Love reading about your hunts...please keep 'em coming! :thumbsup:
Congrats again buddy! A little bacon for the backstraps :)
Way to go, again, RC!
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Bisch
You have a wonderful playground there RC! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Great job for the pig and for cleaning up other people's messes. I remember the thread last year about trash in the woods. I just don't understand sometimes.
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Well, since it's a lucky hat, we'll let it go...
Great "honey hole", love hunting the spots that give you high expectations.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice!
Man...your on it this year RC
rc, you need to continue this tale...i would love to see and hear how you prepare all this pork for the table...pics n recipes would bring these stories to a fitting end. always love readin bout your hunts. keep 'em coming. stan
Hey can I have my orange flags back? LOL. Way to go again. Great looking Honey hole. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: