Well good luck Les!
No, not a snake one was seen....but Marty did kill a rattler the weekend before I got there....
When we got done with the hog, we went to the dump to get rid of the remains and found something that marty had never seen before in all his years being on this property.....A cat of some sort had found the previous carcasses and had attempted to bury them......
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Marty thought it might be the panther that he'd gotten trail cam pix of...but the tracks told of a somewhat smaller cat...probably a bobcat...very cool!
It was decided by all of us that the last after noon would be spend riding, looking, hunting the corned road, and stalking feeders.....off we went.
The stand "sunnyhillarcher", Michael, had killed his big barr boar hog at during last years St. Jude hunt. The stand is a very well concealed ladder in the very left of the pic.....
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Crashing thru some 5ft. palmettos, not even a challenge for the buggy!
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Biggie doing his best Captain Morgan imitation....
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More "old world" beauty of southern Florida, some places are like going back in time....
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First feeder we snuck up on had some deer, but no hogs. Then we stopped short of the corned section of corned road. Marty and I snuck along and were quickly into hogs. But they were a bit ahead and one that we didn't know was there winded us from the palmettos.
It was easy to see that the hogs had found the corn shortly after we had put it down as it was all cleaned up when we came back....
We continued on to the next feeder close by. When we checked it earlier in the day. it was tore up, so we just knew we'd get into something there.
We weren't wrong! There was a big group cleaning up the corn just in front of the treestand! The stalk was on!
I moved in very slowly, and while getting in tight, I saw that there were 2 brown/tan hogs in the group, and one was a very big sow! That's the one I wanted.
I got within ten yards and had shots at some of the other hogs in the group, but I needed to get to the right side of the palmettos thicket in front of me to get a shot at the big brown hog....I was within 10yds, but still had no shot at her!
Just as I was about to clear the right side, apparently one of them got me, growled, and they started to leave.
I quickly took two steps to my right and a couple steps forward to clear the palmettos, as i saw the big brown sow stop with her front half hidden by the edge of a jungle of palmettos. I side stepped to the left to see more of her chest and was starting to draw.....and she disappeared! So close!!!!!!
Hunting them on the ground was extremely exciting!! I mean seriously good stuff!
Back at camp Marty started to cook another gourmet meal...doing what he really does best!
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Peanut "The tracking wonder dog" enjoying a treat..
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We got word that Les was on his way in with his first trad kill!!!
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