My First Trip to Pig Paradise!......All Done...

[Mike Vines]

Nice job all of you.  COngratulations on your 1st hog Cade.  Nice color.

[Shedrock]

Congrats on your first hog Cade! I'm lovin' the story, keep it coming.      

[JamesKerr]

Congrats on your first hog Cade!

[Dirtybird]

This is going to be one of those threads you can read and reread again.  Keep it up guys I'm really enjoying this one.

[Terry Green]

Another pic I got from Curt....of the terrain in the bedroom I was tracking in all morning.....just passing time as Cade must have taken the day off to rest, and I don't blame him....(notice the old horned tree)?

     

[Terry Green]

And another of me and Cade......I really like this pic of just me and him and his SMILE!!!

     

[oldskool]

   

[Mitch H]

WOW! Been reading for more than an hour now…..  

I have been fortunate enough to hunt with a bunch of young hunters……there is nothing better.

Congratulations to Cade, Curt, and Terry……and thank you for sharing it with us.   :cool:

[23feetupandhappy]

Man this is good  

   

[bretto]

I knew that was a lucky Binocular strap.

Very glad You had such a good hunt Cade. Looking forward to hearing the rest of Your story. Keep it coming guys.

bretto

[frassettor]

Congratulations again Cade, Terry, and Guru! Reading all of this made me feel like I was there. Looking forward to hearing more      

[Guru]

Thank you everyone...you have no idea how writing about this hunt brings back a flood of memories!!

When Cade started writing Friday he got so excited, he had a huge smile on his face and said he wanted to go back...like now!!

.......ok, so here we were after that intense stalk, and after running into more hogs....we finally made it back to the spot where we'd marked the night before with tissue paper.

I can remember thinking before I fell asleep and after waking up in the morning that the only logical place for Cade's arrow had to have hit was up in the jaw/throat area. It was bleeding good, but some of the bloody spots we were finding had freshly chewed corn in it, not like something that came out of the entrails. Plus there was the 'crunching' sound of bone at impact....anyway, that was my theory....

Terry and Cade had looked quickly in  the morning when they were back in there. But after about 10yds. in ran into a confusing spot where you could see the hog kept getting hung up.....they'd backed out to come get me....

So we got here and it took us all about 1/2 hr just to figure out how the hog had left this little area. I found some blood about 10yds away... it had taken a hard right turn and now we were back on the blood!

The amount of blood the hog had already lost had us thinking that there was no way this hog could be far away.....but it just kept on going....erratic and confusing....but it kept on going.....

A good amount of time later and another 100yds or so, we seemed to hit another dead end and looked and looked..........and looked.... and looked more...

It couldn't be far, we knew that....but again the blood just couldn't be found....

[pcappy08]

Thank you guys for sharing this adventure with us.....it takes me back to my first hunts with my father as a young teen. Congratulations on a heck of a hunting trip and great story Cade!!!! Can't wait to read more            

[Guru]

Finally....as a last ditch effort...Terry said lets just spread out and do a body search.  We were lucky to be in a spot with not too much thick ground cover. At least we had that working for us.

I swear it hadn't been 30 seconds and we hadn't gone 20yds then Terry exclaimed....."I found some flesh, about 25 pounds of flesh"!!!!!!

I knew what he meant, but he had Cade confused for a few seconds....then he caught on and we all charged ahead!!!!
 
This is what we found...
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This hog, which was really his fist, but second recovered, was taken with an old Wolverine broadhead that an old friend of ours gave him...you wanna talk about one happy kid!!!!!
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My 'theory' (that I had kept to myself) was in fact 'on the money'( I swear I'm not making it up            )
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Ready to head back to camp to take some serious pictures!!
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On the way back,(knowing Cade had never driven a 4 wheeler before) Terry just stopped and said..."ok Cade, you've earned it!
       

 And off to camp we went for pix!!!

Those pix to follow....

[Guru]

Enjoy the pix...

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[frassettor]

Man those look like some GREAT eating        That's one heck of a hole as well

[Zradix]

This is truly an inspirational thread...
   

[Mike Gerardi]

Now those are hero pics!!

[BDann]

Awesome!  Way to go Cade!    

The pix are fantastic!

[Dick Langer]

It's awesome to see the smile on Cade's face in the hero pictures ,then to see the serious look while driving the quad what a memory you will have forever Dad!!!!!!!!!!!