Luck seems to be holding up

[pdk25]

I had a good friend come down for a visit last week, although the hogs seemed to disappear while he was here.  As luck would have it, they returned last night with a vengeance.  I had a sounder of around 20 hogs around me for nearly 30 minutes, but couldn't line the largest of them up.  Several hogs went over 200#.  I shot the second largest, which probably was around 300#.  I could have shot several of the 200# hogs, but was holding out for a big one.  Boars were fighting, mounting sows.  It was crazy, and the wind was right.  Eventually the largest boar ran another boar off then followed a nice sow away from me, but the other large boar stuck around and fed.  I still didn't have a shot right away, and when I did, it was steeply quartering away.  I took the shot, and the arrow entered far back, angling steeply forward.  The arrow buried completely in the hog, so my lit nock didn't help at all, lol.  I waited a little over an hour, hoping that other hogs would come back and to give this hog more time to expire.  It started to drizzle, so I figured I had better get busy tracking. It didn't take long.  I had a massive blood train from the vpa 3 blade, which must have hit the aorta or one of the iliac arteries.  He went around 100 yards total, but crossed a creek with steep walls.  When I came upon him, I knew that there was no way that I could drag him across the creek. I went home, got my backpack, a meat bag and trekking poles.  I got both backstraps and one of the hams out in a steady rain, but then it became a downpour.  I had to leave the rest for the coyotes if I had any hope of getting across the creek.  Too bad.






Just for some fun, I will include some other pics.  I got to see a Jake beat up a Jake decoy at 5 yards away for over an hour, during which time he mounted the decoy.  Pretty cool.  I can't take any credit for the setup.  My buddy did that.

[Dirtybird]

Congrats Pat on a the fine swine!!!!!  I have a feeling that big boar is in trouble in the near future.

[pdk25]

Thanks Dave,
 I probably ought to concentrate on those sow for awhile, but I won't pass up an opportunity for that toothy bugger.

[killinstuff]

Another nice one Pat. And turkey porn too.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

       

[Alexander Traditional]

Way to go!

[cmh]

   

[BMN]

[Cavscout9753]

Well done!!

[drewsbow]

that's awesome

[Chad Orde]

Nice shooting my friend

[Big Lefty]

You're going to need another deep freeze before too long!  Congrats on another great hog!  Awesome turkey pics too.

[A.S.]

   

[CoachBGriff]

Thanks to work and finishing my masters, I've had a brief hiatus from TradGang (I haven't checked in for about a month     ), but it's good to see that you are still hard at those hogs!  Nice work!

[cacciatore]

Great job,Pat. Congrats

[Producer]

I had some doubts as to how effective decoys are but not any more.

[Lady Frost]

Originally posted by killinstuff:
Another nice one Pat. And turkey porn too.

[Lady Frost]

Congrats  

[Jayrod]

Congrats pat way to keep at em down there!

[Jerry Jeffer]

Way to go Pat! Too bad you couldn't get more meat. You better put a rating on this thread with all the turkey porn.