Long stalk and a long night. The oats field we hunt in Bosque County, Texas has only 2 safe directions of fire (North and East) and the prevailing winds out of the south make things more difficult, plus there are the problems of the height of the oats and the undulating terrain. Even we we shoot a hog and it is DRT, it can be hard to find.

We went after a sounder, but got a boar. This video is a bit long, but includes bullet recovery information.

Not sure what happened to the sounder, but recovery of this guy pretty well did us in for the evening and we went home.

You guys have really been getting it done. Waidmannsheil!

Finding downed Boar in an Oats or Wheat field can be interesting. I've had issues with it in the past. You get out into the field and everything looks different (especially in the dark) and you can get disoriented or badly misjudge the distance.

With two shooters it may be easier, especially with night vision. One guy can try and talk the second to the right area.

I usually (often) hunt alone at night with no night vision optics (forbidden here).

I was thinking maybe a green laser pointer mounted on a telescoping rod that I could stick into the earth? This could save me under or overguesstimating where I shot (and hopefully hit) and might help in picking up a blood trail if needed. What do you think? Worth the effort to make? Worth the extra weight in the rucksack?

Waidmanndank!

Our first hunt into the oats for multiple hogs resulted in us only finding one. We left our gear with it and then looked for the other hogs, then spent another half hour trying to find our original hog and our gear, LOL.

Trying to determine distance is a mess without a rangefinder. You can't pace off anything.

We have now taken several 200+ lb hogs from the oats and I told the landowner that we are not targeting large hogs. They are just the only ones that we can see most of the time!

I always take a small roll of toilet paper with me (dual purpose ). I leave a trail of toilet paper sheets, like bread crumbs, so I know where I've already been. Works good for trying to pick up a blood trail, I spiral out in widening circles and leave a trail of toilet paper pieces behind me. You can see the white sheets fairly easy in the dark.

Pull the tube out of the center of a small roll maybe 1/3 to half a roll and pull the toilet paper out from the center. Without the cardboard tube in the middle you can flatten the roll some and make it handier to carry. I pack my roll in a plastic freezer bag.

A couple of glow sticks or those flashing LED lights for a dogs collar are also handy. The LED lights for a dogs collar are really cheap anymore, cheaper than glow sticks. Sure helps me to find the Hog again after I go to get the Jeep.

Great job on the boar.

i've shot and lost several hogs in wheatfields in the daylight.