The larger hogs that show up at my place are pretty cagey, having been hunted hard, and rarely shown up during daylight.  This week, a boar must have known that I would be working long hours this week because he started showing up during daylight on Monday, and a little earlier each day.  Well, today I came home early, and he decided to show up during a break in the rain.  Big mistake.

I was just getting ready do some tuning on one of my bows, but decided to check my cameras, and sure enough the boar was at the feeder.  I grabbed my black and white ebony Stickflinger and the first quiver I could find and headed out.  I knew it should be quiet enough for a stalk, and the light NNE wind was good for my approach, through the north pasture, across the Johnson grass field, through the woods, across the creek, through more woods, and bringing me out on brush hog trails just SW of the feeder.  I had a couple shooting lanes trimmed out, so I could see him well and I dropped the string when he was nearly broadside, but I think he moved a little at the shot.

I heard him crash through a thicket to the west, and it sounded like he stayed there,so I waited just a few minutes and circled to where I thought he would be.  The rain could show up at any minute.  No luck, and I did a quick area search to places where I have had hogs die, but with no luck.  The undergrowth was like a jungle.  

I went to the spot where I shot him, and could tell which trail he took but the churned up dirt, and as soon as I entered the thicket there was a good blood trail, but I knew I would be in trouble if it rained or I couldn't find him by dark.  I had to go on my hands and knees and break brush out of way, buy It was encouraged by the amount of blood and how high it was on the vegetation.  A few turns into different trails and around 80 yards or so later and I found him.

Didn't feel dragging him out, and my Xterra would have been stuck in the mud, so I headed home a different route, and got the tractor to take him home.  The horseflies promptly started eating me up, so I took a couple quick pics, gutted him, threw him in the bucket and headed home.




 

Some pics before I interrupted his meal.

The shot isn't as bad as it looks but I was a little above him.  The arrow busted through the front of shoulder and lodged in the back of the offside shoulder, and busted off when he was running through brush.

Nice work!

I love this time of year when things are starting to ramp up    

Great job .. looks like bacon tonight !

That's awesome! I can't wait to get after them next year. Will be my first trip. Congrats!

Congratulations Pat! Another nice hog      

Steve Jr

Well done Pat!

Awesome job Pat!  Sounds like a perfect execution to me.  Can't wait to take my Stickflinger in the woods in about another month.  I've been shooting it a lot and I swear everytime I'm about ready to sell the rest, it's that good.  First bow I've had that genuinely gives me the urge to be a one bow man.

       

Nice job Pat, congratulations. Yikes on the mud I'd been on my butt in seconds.

Great job. Congrats!!    

Awesome as always pat way to get it done!!

Thanks guys.. Sometimes things work out right.

Great looking hog!

Congrats Pat!