At the shot, the pig squealed and everything scattered! I saw the nock fly off after about 15 yards marking "the" spot to start checking for the blood trail. After about 15 seconds you could hear a pin drop it was so quiet! I quickly got my stuff together and headed to meet John. That was 1 1/2 hours of having all those hogs around me! I love pig hunting!
As I was nearing John, around 50 yards away, I hear the squealing and limbs cracking of hogs leaving from behind him. I get to him and you guessed it, I spooked them off
After apologizing, I told him that I felt I had made a perfect shot on a 30 lb porker. We eased out to the truck to drive back in to look for my hog.
Once back to the spot I told John where it happened and John says "There's blood" and off we went. The above pictures are within 10 yards of were I shot the pig, It's looking good!
We followed the trail for about 50 yards and John says sarcastically "There's your pig! I'm glad you didn't think he weighed 150 lbs!" I look up to see this big hog laying there, boy was I pleasantly surprised! There laid a very nice boar with 2" tusk!
He was muddy and bloody! I have never seen one with so much mud, I thought it was a blond hog when I shot him. Now we had a long drag to get him out it was at least 50 yards to the dirt rd :D .
I weighed him on my scale, he was 125 lbs field dressed, I guess he was around 165 to 175 lbs live weight.
Here are the rest of the pictures.
Entrance
Exit
Cleaned up and ready for pictures!
Look at the shield on this boy!!!!