Hey guys. I'm back from my weekend in east Texas with some pork for the smoker. Less than I had hoped for though.
I went out to deer camp Thursday afternoon with the $200 rolling deer camp and got it set up. As evening approached I hit the woods for an uneventful sit. Friday morning I went and sat at a feeder, ( for those of you that have a problem with baiting you may stop reading now if you wish. If I fill my freezer, and that is my goal, it doesn't lessen my sense of accomplishment. It helps me accomplish what I set out to do.) Anyway, at first light a big bunch of pigs came in to the feeder. I stopped counting at 15. They were pushing and shoving under the feeder trying to get the corn. I picked out a large one and let fly with the Marquis. with all of the movement I hit the pig I was aiming for high. The arrow passed through his back above the spine and struck a smaller pig behind it. The second pig was hit in the left ham. The Rage 2 blade penetrated the second pig until it hit the hambone. It severed the femoral artery and the pig went about 25 yds with a bloodtrail Stevie Wonder could follow.
For those of you that want to be ethics police and bust me for shooting at a hog while it had others behind it get your warrants ready but please be aware that I have no ethics for hogs. They are vermin, tasty vermin to be sure, but vermin none the less.
I searched for the first hog until the sparse blood petered out about 1/4 mile away. I spent hours looking and concluded that due to shot placement and lack of blood that pig will be sore but a survivor.
I never did see a deer despite sitting 3 different stands,(only one is on a feeder), in6 different sits. There was a lot of activity on the land all weekend. Guys hanging stands and building box blinds in preparation for gun season mostly. All that activity is supposed to come to a halt upon the opening of the season. When I asked why it was still going on I was told they meant gun season halts all activity except hunting. No respect for the few bowhunters in the camp.
Anyway here is the pig I did recover. The scale in camp put this young boar at 78 pounds. I got 22 pounds of meat. The left ham was destroyed by the Rage.