Solana Ranch -What a ride into the New Year

[Jack Denbow]

I will meet you guys there. If he doesn't spilling the beans soon he will be singing soprano.
Jack

[Randy Morin]

Jack....your Killin me bro.  I hope this story ends well...I'm bettin it does  

[Terry Green]

[wapiti792]

OK I'm out of  

[Whip]

Hello?
Hello??
Don't forget you fellas have some stories to finish!!!

What happened, ya'll go back to Texas????

[Covey]

Tap tap tap.... The suspence is kill'n me!! Jason

[Izzy]

Well,,,,, since Jack is stringing you along like this let me tell ya the way it happened. Oh sorry, the phone just rang. Let me see who it is. Oh look, Im getting called in to work.Ill finish it later.

[sunny hill archer]

I know that its hard to believe that we could have more fun than we did Thursday night but Saturday morning we did!!!!!!


I sat in a ground blind where David had been "feeding the road" I had seen lots of deer there the evening before and especially wanted a crack at an old doe with a big brisket. I mean it hung down like the dewlap on an old gobbler.

Well as soon as David left I heard crunching to my left. As the dark slowly faded away I see this big black shape at the far end of the little opening in the Cedar. Soon after I hear crunching to my right!!!!!


Next thing I know the black shape is barreling past me and all I see is white tails leaving the scene. The black shape turns out to be a hog. And he is not in a sharing mood. As soon as he runs off the deer he turns and hauls it straight back to the far end.

Well I'm sitting here thinking"That ain't cool"
So.... The next time he turns broadside I am going to try it. Well I let it fly and it hits perfect on the horizontal and about 3 inches back from where I wanted.

Then I waited for the deer to start coming back.....

[sunny hill archer]

Long story short(yea.... I know) the deer never came back. So at 9ish I get out and go look for some sign. I remember marking the spot where he was next to a big pricklypear. Well.. I got out of the blind and went around to the front and then I just started walikng.. and walking...and walking. It was a whole lot further than I thought!! It ended up being a 35-40 yard shot.

It was a shot I had practiced for in preparation for my Big Horn hunt this past November. Not one I ever planned to take. I found one tiny speck of blood on some moss and I went back to the blind. So everybody showed up and we went looking for him.

[Terry Green]

Here we go!!!                    

[kennym]

Sounds like a heckofagood time!!  

[Killdeer]

We are sittin' here waiting, and ol' Jack is perusing the bow classifieds. Rob, can you shut him out of all forums and threads except this one?

Killdeer  

[sunny hill archer]

So... Me and Curt and Terry and Don and David go looking for blood.(Sky was asleep under his stand,but I'll let him explain that)    


We look and look and look. No luck. Terry finally asks David to turn Cowboy out. We look some more with David and Don going out away from us to the right.


All of a sudden I hear Don say that they have blood!!!!!!!!!!! Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!!!!!!!!!! Well I go runnning over to them and they are standing above a ravine and Cowboy is down in the bottom... running in circles!!!!!!!!!

[Don Batten]

You boys are really starting to drag your feet on this.

Michael, I'm heading down this weekend, why don't you come by for dinner one night and tell me about it by the fire. DB

[Terry Green]

Curt and I had gone left a bit to blind look in the more open area off the cedar break ravine.  We heard David yell something a few times to Cowboy, and Curt and I started running toward the ruckus.

We both slowed down as we neared, and I stopped to get a better bearing and didn't see Curt slip into the cedars.  So, I got in there last and was a bit confused as David kept cheering his dog on and just looking back at me....not saying a word about the hog.

Soon I passed David and saw Curt and Michael ahead of me.  Michael was standing still, and Curt was flanking left.....

I still was confused cause I still didn't see a hog....just two guys looking at a blowdown it looked like.

[sunny hill archer]

As soon as I get to Don and David Cowboy starts barking. David says "there's your hog" I bail off down the hill and stop to look in this cedar break that the dog is circling.

Out of no where Curt is standing next to me and we are trying to figure out where in the hell the Hog is. I'm peering ahead and this ear comes into focus then the head and then the back...

I start moving to the right looking for an opening. Curt is going to the left. After searching for an open shot the only window is straight at his head. Since he is wounded already and this is my only shot.. I take it.

The sound was like a loud crack. I mean take a hickory limb to a telephone pole. I hit the pig in the head above the eyes but below the ears!!!!!!!!!


He did not blink. He did not shake his head. He did not utter a sound!! He just stood there looking at me like I was the last ear of corn in the bin!!!!!

[sunny hill archer]

I wish Don had gotten a picture of that hog standing there with my arrow sticking out of his skull looking like a unicorn.

[Terry Green]

Yep....I remember looking at Curt trying to figure out if he had an arrow nocked...and he did...and I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and saw Michael drawing and "THUNK"...just like he shot a barn door.....but I saw nothing move, and heard nothing move either, I was STILL confused thinking he'd missed a hog that wasn't even there...but I started to knock an arrow anyway....

[Jack Denbow]

You guys better hurry up, the football game is about to start.
Jack

[PA stickbow boy]

yep, gotta agree w/ jack