I am feeling better and maybe I regret to have listened at the doctor!
Anyway...the area is filled with some big boars as you can easily understand from the tracks on the ground and the rubs on the trees. Sometimes you can have a body print on the mudd where they wallow.When the temperatures are high they love to take a bath or roll in the mudd during the the afternoon.From my trail cameras I have seen they go from the 1PM to 5PM.They are bedded not far so it is always better to go much earlier to don't spook the area.Tons of mosquitos fill up the area,but you must be good with thermacell.When is very hot you don't want to kill a big one since the area is pretty difficult to access and it can spoils in short time.The evening didn't give any good news,maybe because a cold front approcing and some high winds,so I decided to try to find them feeding late evening in the walnut tree.The walnuts are falling now here and you can hear them crushing the nuts at dark.Just before dark a bunch of them arrived next to the walnut tree as supposed.They are not so easy predictible,this is a several week long tracking work,plus I am not the only one chasing them and the guys with hounds have many people scouting and many noses working for them,plus the farmers see the boars like a pestilence and they call the team with dogs to send and kill the pigs in their properties.Work of many days is usually destroyed by them.
I could see some very big black blobs feeding in the dark and I could hear them crunching nuts.The wind was good from my position,but I had to cross some open terrain to arrive at a decent shooting distance,plus those were big,not too big like the ones that everybody immagine in their dreams,but big enough to make problems and a lot of skinning work.Since I have the freezers already filled of boar meat I wanted something good to make sausages in warm weather.A small piglet went my way facing and walking too fast,almost running;it came very close,like 10yards,but didn't spook;this proved my position on the ground was good.It deseappered in the bush,but still very close,all them were approching,then a little bigger one took my way feeding at a wrong angle and moving fast,looking for the nuts.It made a loop and gave me a 6yards broadside shot,maybe it spun a little seeing me drawing my bow,but the arrow was already passed through. it screamed and was gone.The rest shoot up but them kept feeding around.After a good half hour some pigs were still around,but I needed to check.The arrow was laying on the ground with the Nocturnal nock still on,great help for tracking games,IMHO.It was stinking a little so the angle wasn't as good as I first figured,blood trail was good tough.
After some difficult tracking because the dense foliage I found it well done but still alive about 60 yards away.It didn't move so I was able at 10 yards to give it the final shot;it jumped and after a second I heard asome loud noises like a game breaking limbs and rolling.Then all was silence.It felt in a place with many thorns and limbs and I had to circle to enter the place and to pull it downhill,this is another good reason I wasn't interested in the bigger ones.
Topic: The Hugly Sister and the wild boars (Read 927 times)
