Posted by 641Dave on April 18, 2011 at 09:06:54 from (64.221.11.241):
East Texas is less 4 hogs as a results of our weekend hunt. I took a good friend out Friday night after the chores were done. We hunted the easy way, sitting in the jeep under a tree for shade since the smoke and the moonlight had it looking like daylight throughout the woods. It was a beautiful night watching the moon through the pines and the weekend is one of those weekends that I appreciate breathing and being able to do what I love to do.
My friend and I were talking about lawn more motors when I saw a hog walk out into the open field. I turned the key on and got the light ready as he leveled his rifle on it. I hit the light, he knocked it down and we went back to our discussion about lawn mowers hoping for more. When we drove up on it we both realized we had a good sized one down. Turns out it was the biggest he had ever taken and scaled him at 327 lbs. I got plenty of pics, but I left the dang camera in the jeep and didn't bring it home. Here's a pic of his cutters that I took with my phone.
Saturday my girl friend came down to the trailerhood and helped me water some trees while I smoothed out some more ground trying to create an extended lawn. We finished up early and decided to go to the woods rather than into to town.
We were rolling in the jeep when we came across a small herd. They don't like the jeep anymore and bolted right away so I backed up into some brush and we got out and headed through the woods trying to intercept them. I spotted one hog and had Jen get behind me and we crouched down and approached. Problem was that the closer we got, the more hogs began to show themselves. We had 9 total and closed to within 40 yards using a single tree standing in the pasture, but I couldn't get us to the tree. So I got on my knees and had one hand on the ground and my left hand up with my finger in my ear as she leveled the rifle on my back. lol. Now that's why they call me tripod. She put a high shoulder shot on it and dropped it in it's tracks. Her first hog and with plenty of excitement to boot.
Here's my soon to be better half enjoying a well deserved trophy.
It's a war against these dang things and if anyone has ever driven a tractor through the craters these things make, you'd probably have a rifle close at hand as well. Problem is, for everyone of these things we shoot, there are a hundred we haven't seen yet.
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