Timing was off on the "Timex"?

Dang!!!

The arrow blew thru him in a flash way too far back and the hogs busted out,but quickly stopped in confusion...including the one I'd just put my broadhead thru. I knew i needed to get another arrow in him!

I stepped forward, as I nocked another arrow and quickly sent another arrow into the now moving almost directly away hog. Not a shot I'd normally take, but in this situation, it neede to be done. The arrow hit him high, effecting his back end, but  not fully incapacitating it. He made a valeint effort to get away, but a third arrow to the chest ended it quickly.....I walked away....

I didn't feel the need to be there when he passed. So I walked away giving thanx for the opportunity to end it quick. Sometimes thing just don't work out as we envision them....

I walked back the way I came from looking for Don and right about the time I saw him, I heard something else in the palmettos right by the feeder. I motioned to him that I heard something again, and got down on my knees to have a look...

This is what came out.....

 

 

 

I  smiled and motioned again to Don letting him know that I had tiny pigs in front of me....

He motioned back to try to catch one....

When I took two steps closer they laid down in an instinctual attemp to hide.....I slowly reached down and snatched up a very "squeely" about 5# hog!

 

"Don D"

 


Very cool!!!

You are a Lamb desciple if ever there was one Curt!!
Lets see some hair!!
   :D

Dang...posted at the same time

very cool  

View from behind the feeder.....



I came in from dead center of the pix, from behind the palmetto patch....




A very cool looking hog....






We loaded up, and headed for camp....but the ride back was interrupted....in a good way!

Good stuff Curt. Congrats on a fine hog. Wonderful country and photos. Love that feeling of hunting in a tropical paradise - like a pre historic beast could step out at any moment.

Cool looking hog indeed!!!

Great job on the follow up. Something only experience can bring.  

NICE pig Curt!    Unusual looking coat for sure, it'd make a lovely, if bristly, rug.

Congrats Guru on a very cool hunt. Thanks for
sharing.      

very nice!
pretty looking pig country

Well that takes the pressure off his visit to my camp, Hogdancer, should I put him in the "punishment" stand? Course he hasn't done anything wrong yet. I'll haveta talk with Biggie and see what to do.

left us hanging on the "interrupted"...come on Guru!!!!    

This is getting good.

     .......  

Nice Job Guru!

chris <><

Great Stuff....congrats Curt!

Way to tell it buddy!! Nice hog too!
 

Nice hog,pics and story thanks for sharing.

Great hog Curt!    

Congratulations on keeping your wits about you and getting a second arrow in him. It's not a situation that any of us want to be in but it was the hand you were dealt and you played it right.    

Thanx fellas.....

Easy now Marty, at least give me a chance to do something wrong....it won't be long before I'm usually doing something I shouldn't      

Besides...Thomas wouldn't do that to me      

Sorry for the delay, I was out riding bikes with the family. Gotta keep the ol' wickets in shape to drag Marty's critters to the buggy. Gotta take care of the host    :p  


Sooooo, we were almost to camp and Don hits the brakes while saying..."so ya wanna try for another hog?"....silly question!!

I did have a bit of a pickle though...I only had one sharp BH left in my quiver....after what had happened earlier, I was feeling a bit "undergunned".....

I know, I know...."ya only need one"....I knew I had to make it count....I had one razor sharp Snuffer....It was on!

I easily covered the 500yds following a bare barb-wire fence row. Then at 100yds, I hit a bisecting barb-wire fence row that took me to the lone tree in the pasture. It was a raggedy looking thing about 10ft. tall, and about 8in. in dia.....but that still left me 30yds or so away from the closest pig and about 40yds from the furthest...

I stopped to grab my camera....

 

Then grabbed my binos to get a real good look at them to see if there was a boar in the bunch....

The 3 biggest one's, all black were all very fat sows with young. The next biggest, spotted was also a sow. But there was one, the gray one in the pic, that, had I not gotten a good look at, and if I was in s. Texas, would have swore it was a Javelina! I mean his grizzled gray hair and size were a perfect match! He was a boar!

Albiet, not very big, but if I could pull this off, I'd be proud to have him....

I played cat and mouse with them for a while trying to "hide in plain site" while maintaining a positive wind. I was close enough several times to shoot a couple of the biggest sows. But the little Javi always stayed a little too far...

Eventually they had figured out something wasn't quite right and slowly moved off into some cover...but I was right behind them.

Again, I managed to get close to one of the big sows, but never did see the Javi...but I could hear them as they moved off heading in a direction that looked to be taking them into the back part of what I thought was another pasture when I passed by earlier.....

I looped back around going slow constantly checking thw wind, and sure enough the pasture indeed did cut back it, and I saw movement up ahead......I closed within thirty yards....

 


Then I got with 20yds.....

 


Once again a couple of the biggest sows moved even closer and were with range......

 

But that dang little "Javelina" boar hog just wouldn't come any closer than 25yds....eventually they worked there way into the swamp, and I backed out.....

I had some work to do.....