It was a blast hunting with Curtis and everyone. It was my first TS and I enjoyed meeting and hunting/camping/stumping and good ol general bsing with everyone. It was just a good time. To the hunt.... The first two hunts were at four corners, an intersection on the ranch that had both water and "cornage". Three days before the hunt, we had just recieved about 10 inches of snow in Texas and on that first night, the wind was still blowing from the north at about 30 mph. It was cold. Even the Canadians were cold. I didn't expect to see anything that night and I think my chattering teeth made have given me away. On the second night, the wind was still swirling around and at about an hour before sunset, I had a visitor. A big hairy 200 lb meat monster started towards my stand but just knew something was up. Now this was my second time hunting with Curtis and I've been hoghunting for a lonnnnnng time. I've shot alot of herd pigs but I have never before seen so many big smart lone boars over 200lbs running around. But after arrowing a 225lb. red hog with Curtis last year, I got a little spoiled and just assumed this piggy wanted to go home with me also. But he wasn't so agreeable. I had the pig at about 30 to 40 yards for about fifteen minutes but since he was out in the open, I couldn't close the distance. After he started to circle me (and with the help of swirling wind), he busted me. It was just cool to be that close to such an animal.
The fouth night, stick hunter and I hunted another pasture that was run over with tracks and after a two hour nap in my pitblind (the best nap I've had in years), I heard something and woke up to grab my bow. I then realized that that was my snoring and proceeded to resume my rest. About 5 minutes later, I heard pigs coming my way and grabbed my baby(my bob lee) to do some work on the local piggy population. A herd of about 10 small pigs ran past my pit at about 10 yards and they were just too fast to get a shot off but I just knew that they would back track and give me a second chance. 2 minutes, the swarm of crazed pigs migrated passed my pit blind again and I slowly sat up in my pit to take the shot. It was hard to slow down and just pick a spot when these pigs were just sprinting in circles around each other but I got off a good shot on a little boar on the edge of the group and recovered him 30 minutes later. Everyone at the house enjoyed my "piggy" with a side of carrots and potatos and said I made the right decision to shoot the little one. I'm sorry about no pics. Many thanks to curtis and everone at the sweat. Hope to see yall again in 2011. If you are considering hunting big pigs in Texas and you really want to hunt em on the ground (too much fun) give Curtis a call.
Topic: Texas Sweat 2010 (Read 1286 times)
