LOL - 'at a boy SwampB. I like shooting my bow more than hunting and I like eating better than hunting.....so if i can eat it and it's in season...i shoot.
OK here is another myth (imho). Highfences???
Dean, Lew, and I went to south texas for a pig hunt. here is the layout. 285 acers highfenced with 80 pigs inside. oh man like shooting fish in a barrel right?????? Nope We hunt hard for 4 days from light till dark. I was on one stalk or another from dawn to I could not see. I was running plumb out of adrenaline. I'll bet I was on at least one stalk every hour I was hunting.
Now Lew and Dean are good solid hunters. Lew can bust blue rock ( i saw it happen time and time again after I missed
) at 20 yds with regularity.
We each killed one pig. not because we would not have take more. Our duty was to thin the herd
.
So if ya get a chance to hunt pig in a high fence, don't feel to bad for the pigs. they are fixing to make a fool out of ya
....and your hunting buds too.
our concessions to fairchase was that we would not hunt the feeder or water trough. it was gonna be spot and stalk.
BTW - Dean's shot was a thing of beauty. at a running 70#er at 15+ yds clean the boiler room.
After my lessons with 80 pigs in 285 acers of highfence I wonder what the heck all the fuss was about. All the highfence did was make it more exciting in my opinion. it did not make it any easier to stalk within 15 yds of a pig. in fact it might have made it harder.
rusty -never too old to change my mind when I find out the facts- Craine