Well... many of you took a look at my "WILD HOG HUNT" thread a few weeks ago and ya got to see me doing the true red neck hog hunting on the coast of Georgia... Well, heres part two!
Because the trip took us longer than expected we left around noon this time. We headed out of our boat ramp at around noon and paddled our Kayaks for a little over an hour in the GA coastal water ways to a nice Island just about a mile short of the hunting Island. We couldnt get on our hunt Island yet because of the low tide so we decided to do some whiting fishing!
we caught about half a doen whiting, 3 sting rays, and one very gross eel in the hr waiting for the tides to change!
We packed up and traveled that last 1.2 miles with the help of a rising tide current!
Immediately upon arriving where we wanted to hunt we decided to haul butt to hunt and set up camp later!
We made a full loop around the small Island that was a hog gold mine last time and saw nadda
Then we decided to take a peek out into the huge salt marsh that produced a nice sow last time and sure enough...in almost the exact same position as last time...there was a nice black hog about 600 meters into the marsh! With that the stalk was on! It played out just like last time with me stalking first through the chest tall needle grass then reaching the knee high green grass and having to stalk when its feeding away and lay down when it turns toward us (me and Sean). Well, I got within 35 yards of the hog and released the arrow as it turned broad side only to discover that the hog at 35 meters was not at 25-27 meters as I had guessed (open field is almost impossible for me to guess yardage with no trees or reference points
) the arrow sailed cleanly under its chest but my battle buddy thought it was hit so he started chasing it with a knife! After about 100 yards the pig (uninjured in any way) got tired of running and turned to fight...Sean didnt know what to do so he stopped too
(it was like a dog chasing a car that accidentally caught it...now what
)
so he backed off and we called it a day!
We spent the night camping, eating easy mac and whiting fresh from the ocean!
We were back awake at 6am and the next 12 hours was nearly non-stop action with dozens of blown stalks, missed shots (the palmetto hammocks are tough landscape for bow hunters)
but I piled up 7 pigs by the end of the day...and Sean killed two with my bow (his 1st and 2nd bow kills ever - using a bow he had never drawn thats probably 3 inches too short for his draw length)
It was almost time to call it a day and catch the last tide outta town but we had one more thing to do... we had to go blood trail a nice solid black boar that I had stuck right behind the shoulder about 1.5 hrs before!
As we approached the area where the blood trail would be we see what must be my dead hog piled up in the palmettos...its huge and jet black! Well, Sean has the bow and I have nothing...as we approach the hog stands up and we realize its two perfectly healthy hogs
Well, Sean knocks an arrow and looses on one hog already standing! It connects and the hog jogs a meter or two and goes down... well, the other doesnt know whats wrong with its buddy so it sticks around long enough for Sean to stick it two but that one impacts into the neck and it runs off into the palmettos (thats seans two hogs I mentioned earlier)
Well, once we go after his pig in the thickest nastiest palmettos ever, we come within one yard of a piled up huge "DEAD
" hog.
Well, we are out of arrows and dont even have the bow with us... just knives
Well, as soon as we see this pig we know its the big one we were about to blood trail... BUT, when we went in to stab it... the hog stood up and it had my arrow in its side but otherwise still seemed to be pretty healthy
...oooohhh it also had seans boar piled up with it?? two injured boars (male) cuddling in the palmettos? WTF
The definition of bad idea is being one meter away from this when its healthy...you cant move, run, or see...and ya have a knife for a weapon
any way, the next hour was me chasing it around in the bushes trying to stab it with a knife without getting sliced up!!!
We finally did and its now on the way to Michelle Nelson Taxidermy for a custom mount! Not in my top 10 biggest pigs but its my biggest with a bow!
I have about half a dozen videos of me killing pigs on video but Im not gonna post em! To see them ya gotta attend the next Hunt WA get together hosted by CATWITHBOOST
And trust me, you havent lived (or laughed) until you see me shoot a hog at 15 yards and then see it full on charge me until I did a spinning back kick to its head to put it down!
not kidding!
Thanks for reading!
