Camped out one night over the weekend with a buddy of mine hoping to get into some pigs. This is the same place I took pdk25 to recently.
The morning started off pretty bad. Didn't realize how early the Mr. Sun wakes up this time of year. Then, the truck key fairies locked the keys in the truck. By the time we got to where we wanted to be, it was around 8am, and just hot enough to make me rethink my current situation. Coulda been at home in the AC watching that Giada girl cook Italian food on the Food Network.
I had 4 ticks on me before I even got changed into my hunting clothes. I snapped a bootlace on my Vasques while cinching em up. I had unbelievable heartburn after having 2 pickled eggs and a pint of orange juice for breakfast. Breakfast of Champions, right there. (Those new Rolaids Chewables are FANTASTIC...but you gotta eat 3 of them to really get the full benefit)
We took off and made a wide circle that took us almost 3 hours to complete. Up and down ridges, thru bottoms and across meadows that had pokeweed chin high on me. But I'm kinda short, too. Bryan, the guy I was with, is well over 6 foot tall and has like a 5 foot stride, so when we walked together, I was wearing myself out trying to keep up with him.
By the time the circle took us within a half mile of where we started, I was wore plum out. Gnats didnt care that I had a Thermacell on. They kept trying to get up my nose. One of them got caught up in my mustache and I left him there to die in agony from drowning in my sweat. I had developed a headache, too, probably from the heat, and my pee was the color of orange Gatorade even though I had nearly emptied my water bladder. I would have taken a flat fisted punch in the throat from Mike Tyson for a shower and a fistful of Gold Bond powder. In other words, I was ready to go home.
About 15 minutes from the truck, Bryan, who was about 20yds ahead of me stopped and squatted. Thought he was tying his bootlaces or something, then I heard a soft grunt. I froze, and looked up and saw a sumac bush rocking wildly about 40 yds up the road. There were 3 pigs milling about in the shade, that were wet from a wallowing session, and were rubbing on the sumac. Bryan is tall and clumsy, but turns into a stone cold killer when a pig appears. He squatted down and covered a lot of distance really fast, thanks to the high pokeweed growing along the road. I stayed back and hoped that after he made his shot the remaining pigs would make the poor decision to funnel past me.
It worked. I heard his compound go "click", then all hell broke loose. Nothing satisfies me more than hearing a pig go, "RRRRHHHHHEEEEEE!" I equate that sound with the sound of a successful ATM withdrawal. The first pig I saw go thru my shooting lane had a big red bubbly spot on its side. My use of derivative thinking told me that this was the pig Bryan shot. Hot on the heels of Bryans pig was another...
As soon as that hog came into view, I drew and anchored. The hog stopped and checked me out just a fraction of a second too long. I don't remember releasing the arrow, or even picking a spot...I never remember cool stuff like that. But I do remember seeing red fletching and a yellow nock disappearing into the side of the pig. The pig jumped foreward, and the arrow was laying in the grass.
Me and Bryan regrouped, celebrated with a Clif bar and what remaining water we had under the shade of a big hickory tree. Gave em both about 10 or 15 minutes to expire. We knew in this heat, we had better be Johnny-on-the-Spot with cleaning the pigs, so we went to dust up. Both our pigs roughly tried to escape the same way. Bryans hog went about 40 yards. His pig had turned at the last second and entered at the shoulder, and exited at the paunch. My pig was nice enough to give me a perfect broadside, doublelung shot with a pass thru. About a 60 yard recovery. Good bloodtrails on both.
Great Plains "Rio Bravo" 48#
Beman MFX Classic 500 shaft
Ace 160gr broadhead, with a SS 75gr adapter (570gr total weight)
This was my first session with the Ace heads. I'm usually a Ribtek fan, but wanted to switch to something that was a little easier to find. I am VERY impressed with the performance of the Ace head.
Thanks for takin the time to read and look!
Topic: Unprocessed Pork (Read 878 times)
