My new Thunderchild is headed back to BigJim's...................To hunt hogs!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

It looks like you had a  late night.  Sleep hard this morning cause there's hogs looking to catch some arrows over in the swamp.

Hopefully the houndsmen will stay on their own lease.

Good Luck!

[drewsbow]

come on what happened last night ?

[Friend]

Hey Stump...

In order for me to comprehend, please clarify the obscurity and provide an explanation of your forthcoming submitted account?

Note: The initial single text I recieved from you that evening- "Piggiedown"

If no hogs were close, then how were you able to take a shot?

If you stuck a hog, ..recovering cracked shaft...no blood on arrow, and he departed with an embedded BH w/insert and there was some blood down the trail, how was the hog not harmed?

Sounds very plausible that you may have shot him in the head.

[drewsbow]

They must be playing checkers

[drewsbow]

   

[Friend]

The team is on their last hunt this evening.

[Alexander Traditional]

How'd the hunt go guys!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Hmmm, seems as if these guys are holding out on us....  

[Stump73]

Sorry guys been busy. I'll post our adventure tomorrow. Sorry again for the delay.

[Stump73]

Just wanna say thanks to BigJim for letting us live out another hog adventure. Jim is an great guy and fun to hunt and tell stories with. He and Preacher set us up in some amazing setups.

[Stump73]

Just wanna say thanks to BigJim for letting us live out another hog adventure. Jim is an great guy and fun to hunt and tell stories with. He and Preacher set us up in some amazing setups.

[Stump73]

Thursday night we hunted with BigJim.  Friday night preacher set me in the keep out stand. Which is at the edge of the swamp.  Around 8pm I heard moment down in the swamp in front of me. Had a couple of hogs about 5 yds in the thick brush couldn't get a shot. About 830 I heard something by the feeder. Then heard crunching of corn. I grabbed my bow and shined the light. There was a good size black hog behind the feeder I waited for him to get in front feeder broadside for a shot.

[Stump73]

I had noticed he was holding his right rear leg up where it had been hurt. Finally he was perfectly broadside. So drew back and released. The arrow hit  and squealed then dropped and started flopping around almost  knocking the feeder over. Me never seeing a hog fall like this, I thought It was a done deal. I've had deer do this an it would be over. If I had known I would've put another arrow in him. He got up and staggered to the swamp. Leaving my arrow under the feeder. But my strings tracker was releasing string. I stopped hearing movement and the string stopped moving. I felt I made a good shot.

[Stump73]

About 45 min to hour later Preacher came to help me track. Me not knowing the territory I waited to get down until he arrived because I didn't wanna mess up the scene. First we saw that arrow had no blood on it and the broadhead and insert was missing. The shaft looked like I had shot a 1 inch thick peice of steel. It was mushroomed and split. I've hit steel,concreteand trees before and none of my shafts looked like that. Preacher said he believed I made a head shot. So we followed the string where it ended. No broadhead or hog. But there was blood on the string. About 3yds farther we started getting good blood. We probably went about 100 yds when we lost the trail. We was in black muddy water almost up to the top of my boots. We looked for several hours with not finding anymore blood. I feel bad we couldn't find it. He was thinking may have down to  the creek. Which we couldn't cross being that it was up.
I hunted that stand 2 more times in hopes he would come back. And I watched for buzzards flying over head and nevery saw any. I heard hogs every evening while in the stand.
Sunday morning Preacher took us for a tour in the swamp for some spot and stalk. We didn't see any pigs but I got a good work out. We walked 5 hard miles where you feet are stuck in the mud half the time and climbing over logs. It was a beautiful place.
We saw no other hogs but the sounds of the swamp with stars above your head made the time in the stand relaxing and made me feel like I was part of it. Plus the sounds of hogs letting you know they were aound.
We also got to hang out with Jim not only hunting but at his shop where he makes his beautiful master pieces.
I can't wait until next time. And again I want to thank BigJim and Preacher for making our time down there awesome. Hopefully they will be back up with us this fall hunting whitetail.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Sorry to hear about your misfortune.  

The keep out stand is amazing.  I heard pigs non stop from it in the swamp and often the were close out in front and to the right but its wooly thick in there and I couldn't see them.

It sounds like you had a  great time.  Both Jim and Preacher are top of the barrel.

[Alexander Traditional]

Glad ya'll had a good time. Sorry to hear about the lost hog.

Originally posted by Alexander Traditional:
Glad ya'll had a good time. Sorry to hear about the lost hog.

Ditto what he said^^^^^!

Bisch

[drewsbow]

aaahhh the keep out stand , the place of many adventures

[Stump73]

It seems to be a hot one.