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Got a couple of sows last week
#5782661
06/10/15 05:17 PM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,495
der Teufel
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The hogs just keep showing up! When I began hunting, roughly eight years ago, I made 5-6 trips out to the property for every time I actually saw hogs. Starting about 18 months ago the hogs just started appearing. Nowadays it's pretty rare that I DON'T see hogs. Now that the heavy rains have ceased in Central Texas, I've been able to get back out and hunt again. Last Wednesday I actually spotted four different groups (well, one was a lone hog). I missed a shot at the first group. It was a sow with about 6-8 juveniles and they were in a pasture which provided little opportunity to sneak up close. I got up to the closest tree, which was still about 150 yards distant, and decided to use it as a brace and shoot from there. Missed! About 7PM I called my wife and while we were talking a large, single hog came out of the trees no more than 100 yards away. Naturally I had put my rifle down to use the phone. I quickly hung up and walked slowly back to the truck, hoping that by moving away I'd not seem like a threat. No such luck, the hog disappeared back into the brush. I waited ten minutes and then called my wife back, and of course the hog then reappeared. He made another fast exit and didn't come back. Oh well . . . Not more than 15 minutes later I spotted a large sounder across a pasture and started moving their way. It was a long stalk, probably a little more than a quarter-mile. There was a small rise between the hogs and myself (I started out on the top of a hill) so I used it. When I topped the rise the hogs were still over 250 yards away but moving across and slightly away from me. They weren't looking my direction so I crept closer to a cross fence that was maybe 120 yards or so from the nearest hog. Having missed the earlier shot I paused to catch my breath and calm down, then made a shoulder shot on a 150# sow. I went back to the truck to put down the rifle and get my 'Hog Hauler'® AKA the two-wheeled hand cart. It took me a while to find the hog in the knee high grass, and by the time I got it back up the hill to the truck I was pretty winded. I paused to rest, and what do I see in a nearby field but another sow and more juvenile hogs. They spotted me and started trotting away, but I managed to grab my rifle and put down a 75# sow before they got away.
I have two unwritten rules: 1. 2.
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5782712
06/10/15 05:42 PM
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Joined: May 2015
Posts: 215
customcutter
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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God Bless
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5782791
06/10/15 06:24 PM
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Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,840
Hunter-Steve
Pro Tracker
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Pro Tracker
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Thanks for posting... I'm having serious withdrawals since the rain caused all my spring time hunts to be canceled.
Great story and good shooting!
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5782898
06/10/15 07:35 PM
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 9,105
Espy
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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good job
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5782959
06/10/15 08:10 PM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 8,237
Double Naught Spy
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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Fine job! Those hogs look like they could be related.
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5783025
06/10/15 08:51 PM
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Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 13,612
1860.colt
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Awsome
i'm postaddic
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5783199
06/10/15 10:42 PM
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 473
Beaubien
Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: Beaubien]
#5783398
06/11/15 12:47 AM
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Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 6
458 Socom
Green Horn
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Green Horn
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Congrats...nice eating size.
"Happy Hunting"
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5783407
06/11/15 12:51 AM
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Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 6,164
Chief Joe
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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"It is the same boiling water that softens the rice, which hardens the egg." It's not always about the circumstances, but what you are made of....
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Re: Got a couple of sows last week
[Re: der Teufel]
#5784104
06/11/15 02:01 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 139
pkfergy
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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Looking quite healthy.... and not pregnant whcih is a good thing
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