I had a good friend come down for a visit last week, although the hogs seemed to disappear while he was here. As luck would have it, they returned last night with a vengeance. I had a sounder of around 20 hogs around me for nearly 30 minutes, but couldn't line the largest of them up. Several hogs went over 200#. I shot the second largest, which probably was around 300#. I could have shot several of the 200# hogs, but was holding out for a big one. Boars were fighting, mounting sows. It was crazy, and the wind was right. Eventually the largest boar ran another boar off then followed a nice sow away from me, but the other large boar stuck around and fed. I still didn't have a shot right away, and when I did, it was steeply quartering away. I took the shot, and the arrow entered far back, angling steeply forward. The arrow buried completely in the hog, so my lit nock didn't help at all, lol. I waited a little over an hour, hoping that other hogs would come back and to give this hog more time to expire. It started to drizzle, so I figured I had better get busy tracking. It didn't take long. I had a massive blood train from the vpa 3 blade, which must have hit the aorta or one of the iliac arteries. He went around 100 yards total, but crossed a creek with steep walls. When I came upon him, I knew that there was no way that I could drag him across the creek. I went home, got my backpack, a meat bag and trekking poles. I got both backstraps and one of the hams out in a steady rain, but then it became a downpour. I had to leave the rest for the coyotes if I had any hope of getting across the creek. Too bad.
Just for some fun, I will include some other pics. I got to see a Jake beat up a Jake decoy at 5 yards away for over an hour, during which time he mounted the decoy. Pretty cool. I can't take any credit for the setup. My buddy did that.
Topic: Luck seems to be holding up (Read 276 times)
