bisonic
03-11-2011, 05:52 AM
Got a nice boar yesterday at my place in Lake County. Weighed in at 155 lbs field dressed, so figure 175 lbs on the hoof. Here’s the story:
My buddy JD and I headed up yesterday in intermittent rain showers after a morning of pretty heavy rain. We hoped the afternoon would be good as perhaps the hogs would be out for a bite to eat after hunkering down in the rains. We park, gear up, and head up the road on a central ridge at about 3:30. I’m somewhat irritated as I’d recently found a great load for my Win M70 30-06 but had managed to leave them at home, so I had to borrow my buddy’s 180 gr Corelokts.
Five minutes into the hike we’re approaching a spot with a great view into the valley below and I’m about to tell him how a couple of months before I’d been at the same spot and spotted a big black and white boar across the valley when lo and behold there’s a black and white boar in almost the exact spot! He was rooting around in a creek and oblivious.
We headed back, down the ridge, and up a small ridge that overlooked the creek where the hog was. A perfect 100 yard setup with the wind in our face. My only slight concern was my aiming point given the borrowed ammo, but at that range it didn’t matter much and he was DRT. I recovered the bullet when I skinned him, it was lodged against his far shoulder and had expanded perfectly.
I get the quad and take the hog back to the truck to start skinning him while my buddy keeps hunting. Five minutes later he’s on the radio telling me “you won’t believe it, there’s another pig exactly where you shot yours!”. He’d gone back up to the same spot in the road where we’d just been – that sure is a lucky spot! I hear a shot a few minutes later and head out on the quad to help him, figuring he had the hog down. Unfortunately he’d not hit the hog well and it disappeared. The hog was 10 feet from where mine went down, perhaps attracted to the gut pile and certainly not concerned with our scent.
My budie’s luck continued to be bad as later on he spotted a group of 5 or 6 hogs at the bottom of a hill and flat missed. A great afternoon hunt though and we’ll be back this morning for more!
My buddy JD and I headed up yesterday in intermittent rain showers after a morning of pretty heavy rain. We hoped the afternoon would be good as perhaps the hogs would be out for a bite to eat after hunkering down in the rains. We park, gear up, and head up the road on a central ridge at about 3:30. I’m somewhat irritated as I’d recently found a great load for my Win M70 30-06 but had managed to leave them at home, so I had to borrow my buddy’s 180 gr Corelokts.
Five minutes into the hike we’re approaching a spot with a great view into the valley below and I’m about to tell him how a couple of months before I’d been at the same spot and spotted a big black and white boar across the valley when lo and behold there’s a black and white boar in almost the exact spot! He was rooting around in a creek and oblivious.
We headed back, down the ridge, and up a small ridge that overlooked the creek where the hog was. A perfect 100 yard setup with the wind in our face. My only slight concern was my aiming point given the borrowed ammo, but at that range it didn’t matter much and he was DRT. I recovered the bullet when I skinned him, it was lodged against his far shoulder and had expanded perfectly.
I get the quad and take the hog back to the truck to start skinning him while my buddy keeps hunting. Five minutes later he’s on the radio telling me “you won’t believe it, there’s another pig exactly where you shot yours!”. He’d gone back up to the same spot in the road where we’d just been – that sure is a lucky spot! I hear a shot a few minutes later and head out on the quad to help him, figuring he had the hog down. Unfortunately he’d not hit the hog well and it disappeared. The hog was 10 feet from where mine went down, perhaps attracted to the gut pile and certainly not concerned with our scent.
My budie’s luck continued to be bad as later on he spotted a group of 5 or 6 hogs at the bottom of a hill and flat missed. A great afternoon hunt though and we’ll be back this morning for more!