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

[kennym]

   

[stujay]

[AMB]

This has been a fun read so far, thanks for taking the time to post it up.  And congrats to the young hog killer.

[EL Mejor]

Big ups Cade,,,,,Muy bien,,,Hasi se hase,,,Cazador con mucho Corazon,,,Very good ,thats how u get it done,,,Hunter with a big Heart...Guru and Terry,big ups for both,,,Thanks for sharing

[J.T.]

[cecilm]

[Terry Green]

Got a text from Curt...we was up till 3:45 loading vids n pics....he'll get us started back soon...I'll see if I got a little teaser pic I can throw in....IF my file uploader is working...rebooted as I left last night...so we'll see.

[Terry Green]

Here's a few views of the new 'Cut Over Stand"(name if Michael likes is)....

   

   

   

[Guru]

Ok... sorry for the delays....been a busy couple of days!!!!

This is the last vid I posted...Trying to make it happen....
     

We had a couple bigger hogs up ahead, but there was a few smaller one's coming almost right at us...
     

For some reason Cade was struggling with his shooting this morning....he really should have had that one dead to rights. I think it was so close that he just didn't pick a spot. But we weren't done yet!

We had the wind in our face and there were more hogs up ahead. So on we went...

I could tell Cade was a little frustrated with his last shot and needed a little break so I moved on ahead by myself for a bit.  Once again, you can see another close encounter with "Whiteface" was brewing...
     

Here I have "Whiteface" and her little one's just ahead to the right of the road, "Cade's hog", with his arrow in it from the other night, in the road up ahead in the road(which I knew he wanted badly to get another crack at), and another bigger hog off the left side of the road.  You'll see at one point I started to draw on "Whiteface"(about 10yds) just for kicks...but I thought....I better not      :eek:    
     

I called Cade back up and we moved ahead to try to catch up to "his hog"...
     

We saw his hog just off the right side of the road in some weeds and I knew it was time to close in fast!

Cade had already asked me to try to shoot it as well if he couldn't get close enough.  I really wanted him to be the one that finally killed it, but I knew either way he'd feel ok about it.

I told him once we get close, since I have a faster set-up, I'd shoot on his release...
look at what happens...
     

Cade was less than 10yds when he shot and I was a few yards behind him.  Not sure where his arrow went(but he missed again. Tough morning for him. I honestly think he was simply getting wore out!), at his shot the pig scooted forward and by the time my arrow arrived, it had moved enough that my arrow hit just behind it, right where it 'was'!

 Cade quickly urged me ahead to try again and I sent him in to see if he could push it ahead to me. But it had had enough of our nonsense and headed for thick cover....dang it!

Like I'd explained earlier, I knew in my heart that the hog was going to be perfectly fine with Cade's arrow just under the skin of it's neck/shoulder area....but he felt terrible that it was still toting his arrow...so naturally it became a prime target...

The encounters with this hog weren't quite over as Terry will tell about soon....

We reached "Rob's Stand" and turned around to hunt our way out...which of course gave us a pretty bad wind.  This is the last of the video's...just Cade hunting his way out...
     

more soon...

[BDann]

[Guru]

Some more pix to go with the video's on the way in...

"Whiteface"...
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What fun!
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On the way back out...
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[Guru]

This picture is one of Terry's...after we turned to corner at the "Triangle", we heard some hogs a ways inside the palmettos, so I crossed the ditch and got up on a berm to see if there was any way I could do anything with them.....nada!

When I came back out Cade said to me...."Daddy you disappeared in there"...Terry captured it...
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When I first saw that pic and remembered what Cade said I could see that my KUIU Verde camo had really just about made me disappear...pretty cool!

When I came back out...Cade said, for the 23rd time in the last half hr. that he was hungry!

 And being his daddy, I could tell he was wore out from all the excitement and the long walk and needed to take a break.

Terry was also very hungry. For some reason I wasn't. I really wanted to head back "in" to try one more time before I headed for camp.

So asked Terry if it was alright if I went back in one more time while Cade and him went to have breakfast. I told him I'll be back in about an hour.  Him and Cade headed for the truck, and I went back 'in'...

On the way in, I had a great wind, but for whatever reason, I hardly saw or heard anything.
When I got to "Rob's Stand" I took a quick pic of Cade's set-up...
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Then turned around and headed back out...

Even though the wind wasn't great I had a couple close encounters, but the only shots offered were too small.

Right after a close call....I was walking along....almost to the "Triangle"....when something on the ground in the road caught my eye.

As I walked by, I looked down and saw a bright, shiny penny...and I noticed it was heads-up....hmmmm

I kept walking, as I thought about what a strange place this was to find a shiny, new heads-up penny and also thought about what whatever it is people say about "a penny heads up and good luck"...I've never been one to pass up a heads-up penny, and figured we could all use a little good luck.

So I stopped, backed up about 5 steps, picked it up, and put it in my pocket....

When I got to "Sunset", knowing I wanted hunt it this evening, I decided to take some time to thicken up the ground blind Cade and I had built  earlier...
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I started to walk toward the "90" and saw Cade and Terry coming my way with the truck....we headed for camp for lunch...

[Terry Green]

Now folks can see why Cade's quote 'There EVERYWHERE' was so true!!!

Cade, I notice in one clip...when you went in the brush to circle to try and move the hog toward your dad...you laid you bow in the road and didn't take it into the woods with you.

TIP:....don't ever do that again!!!.....

Your dad could have run them right back at ya!!!     :D      :D      :D

[coaster500]

Really Curt, Terry did a great job with the camera.....  What memories  


 

[BWD]

Curt, is Cade already pestering you and Uncle Terry to take him back? I know I would be.

[Terry Green]

Curt can tell about anything during lunch or what not...and what his and Cade's plans were for that evening....then I'll tell my story this evening...and let Curt finish off with his hunt...

[Terry Green]

When the last day, and last evening is upon you, you start to feel that the hunt is coming to an end...and its a strange feeling....not wanting to leave, but knowing you are going to see your family again.

And it really sets in as you start camp clean up and pre-packing knowing you might have a long night ahead if anyone kills anything.  

That' the part I recall about the last lunch at the moment....

[Terry Green]

I also remember two things...one I said to Cade....

'Soak it all in, cause it will be over before you know it'....and him saying at lunch that last day...'I don't want to leave'.

Yep, its always hard to leave when 'the fish are biting'.   :(

[coaster500]

Yep, its always hard to leave when 'the fish are biting'.

 Amen brother!!!

[TimDougan]

Congrats all around!!!!