Thanx fellas.....
Easy now Marty, at least give me a chance to do something wrong....it won't be long before I'm usually doing something I shouldn't
Besides...Thomas wouldn't do that to me
Sorry for the delay, I was out riding bikes with the family. Gotta keep the ol' wickets in shape to drag Marty's critters to the buggy. Gotta take care of the host :p
Sooooo, we were almost to camp and Don hits the brakes while saying..."so ya wanna try for another hog?"....silly question!!
I did have a bit of a pickle though...I only had one sharp BH left in my quiver....after what had happened earlier, I was feeling a bit "undergunned".....
I know, I know...."ya only need one"....I knew I had to make it count....I had one razor sharp Snuffer....It was on!
I easily covered the 500yds following a bare barb-wire fence row. Then at 100yds, I hit a bisecting barb-wire fence row that took me to the lone tree in the pasture. It was a raggedy looking thing about 10ft. tall, and about 8in. in dia.....but that still left me 30yds or so away from the closest pig and about 40yds from the furthest...
I stopped to grab my camera....
Then grabbed my binos to get a real good look at them to see if there was a boar in the bunch....
The 3 biggest one's, all black were all very fat sows with young. The next biggest, spotted was also a sow. But there was one, the gray one in the pic, that, had I not gotten a good look at, and if I was in s. Texas, would have swore it was a Javelina! I mean his grizzled gray hair and size were a perfect match! He was a boar!
Albiet, not very big, but if I could pull this off, I'd be proud to have him....
I played cat and mouse with them for a while trying to "hide in plain site" while maintaining a positive wind. I was close enough several times to shoot a couple of the biggest sows. But the little Javi always stayed a little too far...
Eventually they had figured out something wasn't quite right and slowly moved off into some cover...but I was right behind them.
Again, I managed to get close to one of the big sows, but never did see the Javi...but I could hear them as they moved off heading in a direction that looked to be taking them into the back part of what I thought was another pasture when I passed by earlier.....
I looped back around going slow constantly checking thw wind, and sure enough the pasture indeed did cut back it, and I saw movement up ahead......I closed within thirty yards....
Then I got with 20yds.....
Once again a couple of the biggest sows moved even closer and were with range......
But that dang little "Javelina" boar hog just wouldn't come any closer than 25yds....eventually they worked there way into the swamp, and I backed out.....
I had some work to do.....
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