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The normal “how to article” I usually submit is being replaced this month with a story about perhaps the best hunt I have ever been on. Hog Hunting Strategies mission is about teaching and I try and spend as much time as I can with my son Joe teaching him how to hunt. I submit each year for several draw tags for youth hunts and this year was no exception. We received an early season tag in the North Central region. Because there was no camping we decided to make this a day trip. I reviewed aerials and topo’s of the area and decided because we were only going to spend a day that it best I talk to the regional FFWC Officer for some advice on the area. He recommended I concentrate on the oak hammocks because they were really starting to drop. After arriving at about 8:30 am we entered an area that was actually only about 500 yards from the check station. Yes, we got some strange looks as we were gearing up for a day a field. My son opted to carry his Mossberg 20 gauge pump tipped with a red dot scope for fast sighting due to the dense foliage. As we worked our way through about 40 yards of scrub brush the area opened nicely into pockets of oaks with 20-40 yard shooting lanes. We started to notice some fresh rooting and immediately new this was a good area. As I am keeping an eye to the trees for a good spot to hang some climbers for the evening hunt, at the same time we catch some movement to our right about 30 yards. It is a nice black lone boar that happens to see us first. As he moves off quickly I motion to Joe and we start slowly working our way in that general direction. Now remember, I started this by saying it was one of the best hunts I had ever been on, and one of the quickest! We are only 15 minutes into the hunt and we see our first hog. As we are moving off to the right about 15 yards on a very, very slow pace I notice a good calico boar, maybe 150-175lbs, moving in our direction. We drop to our knees to see where he is going because at this point he’ s out of range but moving toward us. He stops and rubs a couple of times on a small tree and starts marking it with his cutters. At this point, the hog is what I would guess to be 30 yards or so and between us is a thin screen of brush just not open enough for a comfortable shot so Joe starts to move forward as I point to a tree he should move to. The boar turns slightly toward us like he heard something and we freeze. He then starts to move off, not as if he is scared, but just like he is uncomfortable with the surroundings. I move to Joe and say that we should follow him slowly and see if we can get a shot. Ok, we are now about 35-40 minutes into the hunt. Joe and I both know we are in the thick of it, two nice pigs in under an hour. We start our pursuit as slow as slow gets. Our focus was so intense on the direction of where the boar had gone, being as quiet as we could, the silence was broken by a thunderous burst from our left. Two nice pigs where bedded in a downed tree a mere twenty yards from us. They broke front left moving to our right, I hit the ground flat and yelled to Joe “Blast em!”. I saw the first pig take a hit and buckle but hardly missed a stride and then as the gun fire stopped and the pigs were nowhere in sight, I asked “Did you hit ‘em?” the reply was “I think so!” and as a proud father I replied “You bet you did! I saw the first one buckle.” After a brief blood trail of only about 40 yards we recovered the pig. It wasn’t the prettiest of entry wounds but no meat was damaged and a free handed running shot from a fourteen year old, I’m still smiling. As I am taking some pictures “like this isn’t going to be burned into my memory forever” what happens next is two does blow about 50 yards away, all of this in one hour and twenty minutes. No, it wasn’t a ranch, a zoo, or even a paid permit, it was one of many hunting opportunities available through FFWC and the youth hunt programs available on public hunting property! You can email me at mjp@hoghuntingstrategies.com. |
