I feel like an a$$
12-26-2005, 02:25 PM
#1
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 25
I feel like an a$$
I went out this morning to see about getting another hog. I walking down the trail that leads to a spot that I wanted to hunt when I heard some fumbling around in the brush off to my right and forward, mabye thirty to fourty feet away. It wasvery thick and the sun was not all the way up yet butfairly light out.
I went to circle around it in a clearing to see what it was and if it was a hog to see about getting a shot. I got a little closer when it ran out like a freight train. When it went by you could tell it was black but that is all. It was really haulin, just a blur! After it passed by I could tell it was a hog and a pretty good sized one at that.
I followed it into the brush when I herd it slow down but it was still making alot of racket. hogs sure are not light on their feet or graceful when they move. More like a drunken steam roller!
I couldn't see him any more but where he ran into was alot of game trails. I found an area that I thought I may see him come into later or others since the trails looked well used.
I climbed the closest tree that seemed climbable and comfortable enough to sit in for a while. about thirty minutes later I could hear alot of fumbling around in the leaves in the distance. The fumbling got closer and closer but still out of directview as the brush is very thick. There are places where you can not see ten yards around you and in other directions or inpockets you can see well to fifty yards.
Finally I could see motion and then four grown hogs nose to tail. Three black and atanone. They were not thirty yards when in view but still the brush was thicker than I wanted to shoot through. It was very frustrating to see them andbe so close but not be able to get a shot. Then they started twards an opening in the brush walking broadside to me at the same distance. I'm thinking to myself " can I get two of these if I am quick enough". The hogs come into the clearing and I aim and...CRAP! No boom! I left my saftey on! I turn it off and aim back at the hogs and they are in the brush again past the clearing that was mabye ten feet wide.
I staid there hoping that they would circle around or otherswould come down the trail, but after two hours of siting in the tree I climbed down. I went back to where I started and found my way to the spot that I originally intended to go today. Didn't see another hog all day and I came home.
Another thing that I am getting tired of is armadillos. Them dang things are every where. 90% of what catches my atention and I go check out what sounds like ahog rooting around is a freaking armadillo. OH well, I am just kinda frustrated at myself right now.
thanks forletting mevent.
I went to circle around it in a clearing to see what it was and if it was a hog to see about getting a shot. I got a little closer when it ran out like a freight train. When it went by you could tell it was black but that is all. It was really haulin, just a blur! After it passed by I could tell it was a hog and a pretty good sized one at that.
I followed it into the brush when I herd it slow down but it was still making alot of racket. hogs sure are not light on their feet or graceful when they move. More like a drunken steam roller!
I couldn't see him any more but where he ran into was alot of game trails. I found an area that I thought I may see him come into later or others since the trails looked well used.
I climbed the closest tree that seemed climbable and comfortable enough to sit in for a while. about thirty minutes later I could hear alot of fumbling around in the leaves in the distance. The fumbling got closer and closer but still out of directview as the brush is very thick. There are places where you can not see ten yards around you and in other directions or inpockets you can see well to fifty yards.
Finally I could see motion and then four grown hogs nose to tail. Three black and atanone. They were not thirty yards when in view but still the brush was thicker than I wanted to shoot through. It was very frustrating to see them andbe so close but not be able to get a shot. Then they started twards an opening in the brush walking broadside to me at the same distance. I'm thinking to myself " can I get two of these if I am quick enough". The hogs come into the clearing and I aim and...CRAP! No boom! I left my saftey on! I turn it off and aim back at the hogs and they are in the brush again past the clearing that was mabye ten feet wide.
I staid there hoping that they would circle around or otherswould come down the trail, but after two hours of siting in the tree I climbed down. I went back to where I started and found my way to the spot that I originally intended to go today. Didn't see another hog all day and I came home.
Another thing that I am getting tired of is armadillos. Them dang things are every where. 90% of what catches my atention and I go check out what sounds like ahog rooting around is a freaking armadillo. OH well, I am just kinda frustrated at myself right now.
thanks forletting mevent.
12-26-2005, 04:55 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: palm bay fl
Posts: 4,504
RE: I feel like an a$$
dont feel bad, i know it's madening but you at lesthad some excitement.i'm going to try to go in the morning again, hopefully the same thing wont happen to me, lol.......good luck on your next hunt 
