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Old 08-25-2006 | 12:23 PM
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I was in FL Hog and Alligator hunting. We were sitting in the blind on night and a herd of hogs came up the game trail and i stuck one with my bowof course it and the surrounding few darted off but the ones that where bringing up the rear stuck to the trail. So the gentleman that i was down there hunting with handed me the shotgun and said to take another. So i picked out about a 120 pound boar and shot. After the shot gun roared everything was gone. The one i took with the gun didnt go far so we grabbed a light and took to tracking the hog that i stuck with a bow. we had tracked the hog for probably 60 yards in the thick FL swamp when the flash light went dead. So i stayed with the blood and wayne went to the truck to get another light. he returned shortly but this time without a gun. Now we were around 90 yards back in the swamp and it was getting late. Suddenly a BlOOD CURDLING ROAR sounded just yards ahead of us. Wayne imidiatly shut off the light and said "stand still and be quite" so we stood there ears ringing from the listening so hard. after 30 secounds there was a rustle in the brush followed by another heart dropping roar. i was starting to get a lil scared now cause id been told how bad a hog could tear u up. so we started to sneak out of the swamp. Suddenly i stepped on a stick and we herd a heck of a comotion and another roar wayne wheeled around with the light to see about a 450 lb boar standing just a few yards away. all i herd next was RUN!! i come to a stop laying face down in the water under the truck wayne was right at me heels. the boar never did come into the open and neither of us got hurt. Afterwords wayne looked at me with a big grin on his face and said" u know u only had to be faster than one person". we came back in the mourning and found the hog that i shot just a few yards from where the boar stopped us. but a bear had beat us to it and it was pretty well cleaned up

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