Grabbed the longbow and headed for the swamp this evening. I decided there would be no "exploring" today. It was getting late and I was headed straight for one of my public land honey holes. I hoped to kill a pig 5 minutes out of the truck but had a swamp about 3 miles deep to hunt.
The last gun hunt of the year was last weekend so I figured I would have to go deep but hoped the rain this past weekend had slowed the Riflemen up some and kept them closer to the road.
As usual I was very disappointed in my gun toting partners. Orange flags were strung in trees 10 feet apart from the parking spot to about a 100 yards in the woods. I pulled the leftover flagging down mumbling something about someone should be home knitting or something if they can`t find their way back to a road they can see from the tree.I dropped off in the swamp a good bit West of my usual starting spot and got a bearing on the Black Lake and headed to the back....
I forgot to change batteries in my camera again so I did`nt get many scenery pics,sorry bout that. I changed them just now for my trip up to Ocmulgee WMA tomorrow Lord Willing.
I passed through the swamp between the "Corner" and the "Hole" and stopped to take one pic...
Rambled on through listening for pigs as I went. Leaves were deep and a feeding drove of hogs would be easy to locate if they were out and about.
I slipped on through to one of my "parking" spots when I hunt from a boat and rested a bit. I f I don`t stop and sit a while I catch myself going way to fast through places that deserve attention. Snapped a pic here. My Good friend Dave from Wisconsin killed a St. Judes pig near here....
I then went past the two mile oak...You can guess where that name came from and spotted a couple white flags bouncing off at a distance. Always a few deer back here.I made a big circle in a bad wind in order to follow the edge of a huge thicket back through at prime time...
I crossed a small slew where my Buddy Chris killed a monster 8 pt last year and heard a drove of hogs feeding in a big oak flat. I eased on up and spotted a blue pig. He stood out in the crowd of solid black ones and one big Red sow.
I quickly got to 40 yards fearing a swirling wind. Its impossible to be quiet in the leaves so I did the pig rooting shuffle with my feet till I got behind a huge Water Oak. I had a black boar about 100 lbs at 15 yards and was waiting for him to turn side ways when a smaller guilt I had not seen walked from behind a cypress and started shuffling leaves at 4 yards. A Bird in hand is always best...
Purty good trail for a two blade head I`d say.And about 60 yards later, PORK!!!
Don`t laugh at the hat its been lucky two days in a row..Thank You Lord,RC.
Topic: Its why you call`m "Honey Holes" (Read 1057 times)
