Posted By: Double Naught Spy
12 More Hogs With 3 Sows Over 250 - 01/22/18 02:46 PM
Busy weekend with a lot of time on the road checking properties across three counties in North Texas. Friday night was started off just being windy and cool and then the humidity skyrocketed. The worse part was that the hogs were mostly absent from the properties we hunt, although plenty were out moving on several nearby properties. At least putting pressure on the hogs is helping to keep the hogs off the properties we are allowed to hunt.
In this vid from Friday night, as we closed the distance on some hogs, they spread out quite a bit and I ended up helping to shoot my partner's hog instead of my hog which had wandered way off to the right as we bounded between shooting positions.
However, I helped make up for the faux pas by dropping my other partner's wounded hog at 370 yards.
Friday night found us hunting out farther west on some of Dave's properties, one of which he just earned on Thursday night. People often ask how you get properties to hunt and it isn't always easy with knocking on doors and often getting rejected, or getting tips from friends and friends of friends, but once in a while you get a landowner who either has a lot of lands or who knows people who do. In this case, it is the former and as Dave has been productive on the first few parcels, the landowner has slowly granted access to more and more of his lands and it was the new properties that had the hogs Saturday night. This is where earning trust is important for getting on new lands.
We got on to a sounder that kept changing in size as we approached over a 1900 yard stalk to get to them. It was a big field! The sounder kept changing because members of the group kept coming out of, and disappearing into the river bottom that cut through the property. And much to our surprise, this pattern continued when we started shooting. We grounded 6 females (3 over 250 lbs and 5 that were pregnant) and 3 piglets.
In this vid from Friday night, as we closed the distance on some hogs, they spread out quite a bit and I ended up helping to shoot my partner's hog instead of my hog which had wandered way off to the right as we bounded between shooting positions.
However, I helped make up for the faux pas by dropping my other partner's wounded hog at 370 yards.Friday night found us hunting out farther west on some of Dave's properties, one of which he just earned on Thursday night. People often ask how you get properties to hunt and it isn't always easy with knocking on doors and often getting rejected, or getting tips from friends and friends of friends, but once in a while you get a landowner who either has a lot of lands or who knows people who do. In this case, it is the former and as Dave has been productive on the first few parcels, the landowner has slowly granted access to more and more of his lands and it was the new properties that had the hogs Saturday night. This is where earning trust is important for getting on new lands.
We got on to a sounder that kept changing in size as we approached over a 1900 yard stalk to get to them. It was a big field! The sounder kept changing because members of the group kept coming out of, and disappearing into the river bottom that cut through the property. And much to our surprise, this pattern continued when we started shooting. We grounded 6 females (3 over 250 lbs and 5 that were pregnant) and 3 piglets.
