Texas pig hunt . . story and pics added

[wingnut]

I'm back.

Anyway where were we?  Oh ya, we are waiting in the blinds . . .sweating.  Man it is hot, 85 degrees a steady south east wind and things are look good.  After an hour, I hear crunch, crunch, crunch.  Man the heart starts to pick up a step and I see movement through the mesquite tree to my left.  HMMMMMMMMMMM, it's white an kinda big.  Well I'm not opposed to shooting a white hog.  Man there is more movement behind and things are happening quick.  The white blob steps into the first lane.  Wait a minute, it has horns and it's eating my corn.  Dang Texas Dall sheep!  I grab a stick and peg it in there direction and make a perfect 10 ring hit on the leader.  He looks my way and hot steps down the trail 50 yds and starts eating again.

That was cool and I named that Dall "Snowball" cause he doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell next year when they open em up for hunting.
LOL

Things settle down again as the sun heads for the tree tops behind me.  Now here is more crunching and grunt grunt grunt coming from my right.  I check the wind and it's still steady in my face so we are good.  I can only see about 12 yds to the right so when I cna see they are in shooting range.  We were told not to shoot "wet sows or sows with young" so I have to be careful.  Well here come 10 little hovers troting into the shot window.  They are about 15#s and not big enough at this point.  Then out steps a big sow and another both wet.  Wait a minute here comes another and it's big and dry.  I start to draw and all hell breaks loose.  The dang little ones had worked around down wind of me and spooked about 2 seconds before I could let her go.

man that one was nice, oh well there will be more.

Things settled down again but the sows stayed in the brush 50 or so yds in front of me in grunted til dark.

When I couldn't see, I headed up the trail to pick up James and check on Connie and Shona in the Double Bull back at the intersection.

More later with pics.

Mike

[JC]

Oooooh the agony....

[B n Az]

...SIGH...Well that was a small morsel...hope you don't expect that to hold us very long.

Impatiently waiting...Bobby

[Shaun]

Get some more coffee in ya and back to the keyboard, them bow orders can wait.

[the Ferret]

grrrrrrrrrrr.... cool little tidbit, kinda like a hunting appetizer,, but we need the main meal! Get on with it already ha ha

[wingnut]

Connie just went to pick up the dogs at the kennel. She has the next installment.

Ya'all can wait.

LOL

Mike

[the Ferret]

Now that is just plain mean...RUSTY fire up the beemer, or the jeep, or the VTX and head over to Wingnuts and get the rest of the story and fill us in will ya?

The-baby sitting grandkids today and needs adult interaction- Ferret

[WaKeDa BT]

Pawpaw Ferret, can we watch Baby Bop? PLEASE!!!!!

[wingnut]

Dang Mickey if you need adult interaction, what are ya doing on this site.  LOL

She will be back in a few minutes.

Here is a couple of pics of wildflowers on the ranch to keep ya busy.

 

 

mike

[wingnut]

Just got back from picking up the dogs - Mike said I needed to tell my side of the tale.  

Well....the guys dropped Shona and me at the Double Bull blind they set up for us - this is Shona's first trip out bow hunting so I'm trying to give her a feel for what is supposed to happen. We're getting settled in and oops - as I reach for my arrows I realize that I left them on the table back at camp - got my bow, the camera (can't go hunting without the camera you know, water, but no ammo (stupid, stupid, stupid - hard to kill something without an arrow.....).  So I tell Shona to sit quietly in the blind and I'll run back to camp and grab the arrows.  On my way I encounter 2 groups of pigs (unfortunately one of the groups I spooked from Jason), 4 sheep, 3 blackbuck, and a buffalo. It was a rather interesting jaunt, get the arrows and Gerald was kind enough to drive me back out to the blind (they took me the short way - about 200yards from camp- now i really feel stupid - must have been having a cronic blond attact evening).

I get back to the blind and Shona is really excited she's seen a group of pigs and some axis deer that she got pics. of.  
 

Okay now we're ready to settle in and get serious...things are quiet for about an hour and  then another group of pigs - 2 sows and some younguns - decided not to shoot these it was still early.
 

 

A few mins. later another group of pigs came by - took a shot at one but unfortunately the shot went high - no piggy tonight.

A few mins later the buffalo I encountered earlier decided to come by for a visit

 

The buffalo got Shona a bit nervous as it proceeded to check us out - snort'n and stuff, evidently it didn't like it's picture taken or something - as it kept hanging around, circling the blind and snort'n some more Shona kept whispering rather excitedly "shoot it - shoot it - shoot it now!!!!!" ...well as I figured that Gerald wouldn't be real happy at me for shooting the soon to be mom buffalo I told her it wouldn't be real good idea. About that time it was getting dark and Mike and James arrived and spooked it anyway.  Unfortunately no piggies tonight but it was an exciting evening with lots of different critters for Shona to see..she learned alot about hunting from a blind and being still and quiet.

Connie

[JC]

Great shots Connie, especially the Buff with all the wildflowers in the foreground....very cool.

[the Ferret]

Mama Connie mmmiiiisssed? Critter must have ducked.

Ok ready for the next installment.

The-got 1 napping the other playing on the front porch with the labs- Ferret

[wingnut]

Yep she says she passed it up.. . .high.

Well James and Terry are on the road and at work so I'll fill in Friday night for them and let them tell the Saturday story themselves.

So James had pigs on the left of him and on the right of him but non got close enough for the shot.  Terry got mixed up on his stand location and ended up with out a blind but he hunkered down in the brush and had pigs all around but again no shot.

Jason had arrows in the air and shot over one and under one.

So Friday night was eventfull but it was Piggies 3 and bowhunters 0 as night falls and we hit the hay for an fitfull sleep.

Mike

BTW hold on to your cokes and hide the kids for the Saturday stories.  It is intense.

[Luke Vander Vennen]

MORE!!!


(please??  :rolleyes:  )

[trashwood]

Heck fire I could have had the pig roasted by now and me and Bear done ate it.  

Rusty

[James Young]

Ok Friday was pretty cool for me.. although no pigs came in I did have a group of sheep and goats pass by... catalina's, corsican's, texas dall and maybe an audad.  Was pretty cool to see the animalss but no pigs in site.

[James Young]

Now comes saturday morning..... well I the guy who without a high fence will get lost realy easy.. now its before daylight and I'm not the morning person.. shut up mike.... so gerald is driving us out to stands and well one turn looks like another in the road and I though I was at my stand.. uhh really was about 100 yards of so away when I bail out.. figure out my goof and start easing down the road to try to find my brush blind... we did a good job cause all brush piles looked like my blind.. so eventually I find it and get settled in... ( BTW  Mike says that when they drove past my blind there where about 6 pigs right by it just my luck..) Didnt see the pigs.

So I get settled in and after a while the buffalo comes around and gets about 8 yards from me... man those thigns are big.. finally throw enough sticks at it and it wanders off...

No pigs sited during my morning hunt...   :(  

More to come.... and it gets better..

James Young

[wingnut]

Well I'm in from the shop so here we go again.

Let see we were just getting to saturday morning and navel contiplation.

Stand hunting is feast or famine.  You either have critters or you are getting a dead butt waiting fo them to come.  I really don't like it and would rather be spot and stalking.  Anyway I arrived at my stand just before daylight with Gerald and his hotrod corn feeder.  Things were nice and cool and damp.  A perfect morning for pigs.  In fact we saw three sounders of pigs on the way in.

But here I sat, nothing happening til about 8:30 when a very nice axis buck decided to give me a show for five minutes.  Then nothing.  I baled out of the blind at 10:30 when the sun got heated up and I knew the pigs were down for the day.

James was up the road about 300 yds and had the same luck only instead of axis he had goats and buffalo.  Said one of em was a real dandy too.

We walked and talked and headed for the double bull hoping Shona and Jason had a better morning.  Goats and fallow deer were the story there so things were not as planned.  Shona said that jason was a jinx and that she was with Connie from then on.

Shona headed for the bunkhouse and the three of us headed up the road to check on Terry and Connie.  Along the way we spotted a 30 # pig and James and Jason tried to get an arrow though a hole in the brush.  I stood back and laughed as the arrows hit mesquite sounding like whitetail bucks in a death battle.

Soon the pig headed for less noisy parts and the boys crawled around to retreive the arrows.  many scratches and pokes were encounterd.

We were back on our way poking fun at the shooting skill and enjoying the sunshine.  We rounded the corner to see Terrys tripod.  Hmmmmmm thing were different here.  There were pretty bouquets of blue fletching in a couple of places around the clearing.  Shurly Terry couldn't have emptied his quiver.  But alas he told of the ironclad pig that sailed in and munched corn while he passed him up.  High then low then left only to have the pig sniff the arraws and walk off.  Kinda humbling when they do that. . .no respect.

Connie was another 250 yds up the road and around a corner.  The pigs new better then to give her a chance and they avoided her shot lanes like the plague..  They must have heard that she had missed all ready this year and that someone was fixen to die.

We hit camp and Jason made b'fast.  We sat around and shot the campbull and shot the new windtalker bows.
 

 


 We also did some knapping (napping) About 3:30 we made a little dinner (wild boar and mushroom stroganoff) and prepared for the evening hunt.

Mike

[herb haines]

i have been away all day and they haven't finished yet .
like the pics and that red piggy would have been toast ( like to get a red one ) lol .
saw exotics when we went to the Sweat hunt on some of the high fenced ranches  through the fence . must be real interesting to see all these different animals .
now boys and girls it is time for some more please ----- herb

[the Ferret]

Dang 3 pages and nothing has even shed any blood except James and Jason

Hey Mike, Jason wears shooting pants just like yours   :D