Forums46
Topics538,589
Posts9,738,926
Members87,095
|
Most Online25,604 Feb 12th, 2024
|
|
|
Patient plan pays in piggies
#8193948
03/06/21 03:56 AM
|
Joined: Apr 2019
Posts: 315
Douglas Tipton
OP
Bird Dog
|
OP
Bird Dog
Joined: Apr 2019
Posts: 315 |
Last weekend went public with my bow and walked up on a sleeping sounder I didnt see. Ended up crouched in a 5 yard stare down with a young boar and a huge sow. Ended in a draw. Later went to the farm and drove up on a sounder by the barn. They took off before I could stop and level on them.
Back out at the farm this evening. Now the farm I hunt is 70 acres on the edge of suburbia. The north 40 acres is all pasture. The south 30 has the 2 houses, some pecans, oaks, pasture, and a creek bottom. To the east is a property about 250 yards wide and full length, maybe 35 acres total. I usually dont like to hunt with a north wind because it blows my scent to the creek where they travel. It's about 6 and I unload and start walking to the east fenceline and a boar comes in from the adjacent property along the S. Fenceline. He crosses my scent path from the north wind and I never get a shot. I continue to the east fenceline and I see a sounder next door. I watch as the move north, upwind of me. They travel north feeding, going 400 yards or so before I lose them as I follow along the property line. There are houses further east, and I suspect they may move into the north 40 pasture at some point. I go back south and set, watching my feeder by the treeline. I occasionally hear squealing from my sounder, and periodically check to see if they've crossed over.
After 2+ hours they're still in the same place, so I move north past them and hit them with my light and the head away and back south. I'm thinking they may swing around back to the farm, so I move quickly back south to the south fenceline. I hear them on the next property, so I move south and back east to the property line, watching north. I see some dark figures cross over and light them up. DRT. Note the fenceline in one of the pics.
Last edited by Douglas Tipton; 03/06/21 03:57 AM.
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8194534
03/06/21 09:40 PM
|
Joined: Jul 2018
Posts: 68
Boar Sight
Outdoorsman
|
Outdoorsman
Joined: Jul 2018
Posts: 68 |
Well done and I like the narrative you gave as it gives us a better picture of exactly what you did. Although I'm 78 YO a friend has gotten me interested in spot and stalking piggies.
Some people have such a toxic and rancid personality that even death doesn't want them!
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8194662
03/07/21 12:28 AM
|
Joined: Jul 2020
Posts: 309
Chopperdrvr
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Jul 2020
Posts: 309 |
Good story and nice job on the boar. Keep at them, you only have thousands left to kill.
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8195169
03/07/21 02:58 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 19,363
Biscuit
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 19,363 |
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8195211
03/07/21 03:40 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,496
der Teufel
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,496 |
Most excellent, keep after 'em!
I have two unwritten rules: 1. 2.
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8195254
03/07/21 04:19 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2019
Posts: 58
Tw0fish
Outdoorsman
|
Outdoorsman
Joined: Sep 2019
Posts: 58 |
Strong work! Looks like decent eating too if you can haul em off.
What’s your weapon, and light, and optic?
Jordan
"It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them." -- G. K. Chesterton
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Tw0fish]
#8195520
03/07/21 09:20 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2019
Posts: 315
Douglas Tipton
OP
Bird Dog
|
OP
Bird Dog
Joined: Apr 2019
Posts: 315 |
Strong work! Looks like decent eating too if you can haul em off.
What’s your weapon, and light, and optic? Sig .308, 150gr SP, Sig 4-14x42, Nitecore light (green lens on). This dude was 200# plus so wasn't interested In the harvest. Tagged a huge boar last night same setup but no findy.
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8195930
03/08/21 04:30 AM
|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 6,121
Ranch Dawg
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 6,121 |
THE ROAD GOES ON FOREVER AND THE PARTY NEVER ENDS.
F##K YOU JOE BIDEN !!!!!
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8198990
03/11/21 02:31 AM
|
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 110,804
dogcatcher
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 110,804 |
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
|
|
|
Re: Patient plan pays in piggies
[Re: Douglas Tipton]
#8200766
03/12/21 09:26 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,657
colt45-90
Texas colt45
|
Texas colt45
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,657 |
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
|
|
|
Moderated by bigbob_ftw, CCBIRDDOGMAN, Chickenman, Derek, DeRico, Duck_Hunter, hetman, jeh7mmmag, JustWingem, kmon11, kry226, kwrhuntinglab, Payne, pertnear, rifleman, sig226fan (Rguns.com), Superduty, txcornhusker
|