Dave, you had a busy day!
There's only about 40 minutes left in this day, so I'm gonna hurry to make a post...
Slept in due to heavy rain early in the day. About nine, my wife and I decided the rain had ended so we headed out on the lease. Since the wind was blowing, and the sky still looked like it could rain at any moment, Belinda and I decided to do a little work around our stands. We planted three small food plots. One for my oldest son Logan, one for Belinda, and finally one for me. (I know it's a little late, but this bum leg has kept me out of the woods until this week.) We placed a couple of trail cameras... Had to find the pic cards someone had removed :rolleyes: And tied some temporary sides around a tower stand using WallyWorld tarps.
Finally returned to camp, showered with scent away, ate a quick lunch of ham sandwiches and then headed for my brush blind.
I sat there from 3:30 until almost dusk with out seeing a thing. As I was leaving the blind I looked across the new clear cut that comes to a corner maybe 30 yards from my blind. Movement! In the form of several hogs! I sneaked over and placed a windrow of tree tops between the hogs and myself and attempted a stalk. The devils stayed a hundred yards, or so ahead of me for several minutes but I finally had an open shot at around 35-40 yards. Normally I wouldn't take such a shot, but these were the reason I hadn't seen a deer this afternoon! Also, hogs are a major problem down here. And I was hunting with the ambush bow Keenan made for me in last year's swap, so I wanted to make meat.
Oh well, the shot was a clean miss but they didn't go far. I moved behind another windrow and made it inside 30 yards before I had another wide open shot.
Bingo! Hog on the ground! The rest became skittish and finally ran off to allow me to finish off the unlucky sow. She was young, about 40 lbs. maybe and it took three more arras to get'er done. But I finally blooded Keenan's juniper bow. I AM STOKED!
Only wish my first kill with this terrific bow had been a whitetail, but that'll come.
Belinda is reminding me that we have work tomorrow so I'll hafta cut this story loose.
I had a great day! :D