Been slow hunting around here lately. We had a bumper acorn crop this year, so not as much feeder activity, and then mainly at night. Our general deer season ended Sunday, and our managed land season ends this Sunday. So, I plan to start working on the hogs and coyotes now.
Got my new Leofoto tripod, ball head and rifle set up yesterday so the night calling and thermal hog hunting should go a little handier.
We were fogged in this morning, and when my feeders went off at 7:00 I couldn’t see more than about 30 yards. The feeders are 120 and a 143. At 7:30 I still couldn’t them and I figured the one at the creek which is a 143 yards might have a hog at it since I had a daylight boar there Friday morning and probably the same one yesterday at 1pm. First hog I have seen or had on camera in the middle of the day in months. I figured the foggy, dripping, still morning would be the kind of morning a hog would be out. About 7:45 I started to be able to make out the top of the feeder tripod, but morning else. They fog must have thinned for a few seconds because as I was straining thru the binoculars I could just make out some dark legs against the light colored sand under the feeder. I figured it have to be hog, but the fog thickened back up and couldn’t see anything. For the next 10 minutes i strained thru the fog with binos trying to see, figuring all the while he would eat all the corn and be gone. Finally I decided to climb down from my stand and slip in closer. I knew if I couldn’t see him, he couldn’t see me. I slipped up about 50 or so yards closer say movement but it was a crow under the feeder. Then I made out the boar to the left of him. I got on one knee and dropped him with the 143 grain eldx from the 6.5 CM.
I drug him away from the feeder to the edge of the brush and went back to the stand. At 9am I could still just make out the feeders so I called it morning and went to get the truck.
This boar taped 171 pounds according to the girth tape.
I plan to remove several more big boars in the near future.
Got my new Leofoto tripod, ball head and rifle set up yesterday so the night calling and thermal hog hunting should go a little handier.
We were fogged in this morning, and when my feeders went off at 7:00 I couldn’t see more than about 30 yards. The feeders are 120 and a 143. At 7:30 I still couldn’t them and I figured the one at the creek which is a 143 yards might have a hog at it since I had a daylight boar there Friday morning and probably the same one yesterday at 1pm. First hog I have seen or had on camera in the middle of the day in months. I figured the foggy, dripping, still morning would be the kind of morning a hog would be out. About 7:45 I started to be able to make out the top of the feeder tripod, but morning else. They fog must have thinned for a few seconds because as I was straining thru the binoculars I could just make out some dark legs against the light colored sand under the feeder. I figured it have to be hog, but the fog thickened back up and couldn’t see anything. For the next 10 minutes i strained thru the fog with binos trying to see, figuring all the while he would eat all the corn and be gone. Finally I decided to climb down from my stand and slip in closer. I knew if I couldn’t see him, he couldn’t see me. I slipped up about 50 or so yards closer say movement but it was a crow under the feeder. Then I made out the boar to the left of him. I got on one knee and dropped him with the 143 grain eldx from the 6.5 CM.
I drug him away from the feeder to the edge of the brush and went back to the stand. At 9am I could still just make out the feeders so I called it morning and went to get the truck.
This boar taped 171 pounds according to the girth tape.
I plan to remove several more big boars in the near future.