Post by: LongTatLaw on July 09, 2009, 10:22:37 AM
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!
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10191/fishin_hogs.jpg)
we caught about half a doen whiting, 3 sting rays, and one very gross eel in the hr waiting for the tides to change!
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10191/with_fish.jpg)
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 :bash:
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 :bash:) 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 :chuckle: :chuckle: (it was like a dog chasing a car that accidentally caught it...now what :dunno:)
so he backed off and we called it a day!
We spent the night camping, eating easy mac and whiting fresh from the ocean!
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10191/camping_me.jpg)
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)
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10191/pile_2.jpg)
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 :drool::drool:
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 :dunno:" hog.
Well, we are out of arrows and dont even have the bow with us... just knives :bash: :chuckle:
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 :bdid: ...oooohhh it also had seans boar piled up with it?? two injured boars (male) cuddling in the palmettos? WTF :dunno:
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 :yike: :bdid:
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10191/hog_close_up.jpg)
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!
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10191/me_and_hog_heads.jpg)
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! :o not kidding!
Thanks for reading!
Post by: jackelope on July 09, 2009, 10:29:49 AM
great stories.
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Post by: BLKBEARKLR on July 09, 2009, 10:37:48 AM
Joe
Post by: Ray on July 09, 2009, 10:38:14 AM
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Post by: Moose Eyes on July 09, 2009, 09:54:57 PM
great story.....just one question.....are there gators there?
Second question: Are there snakes there?
Post by: PacificNWhunter on July 09, 2009, 10:24:01 PM
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on July 09, 2009, 11:09:42 PM
great story.....just one question.....are there gators there?
Second question: Are there snakes there?
NO! :chuckle:
Post by: bowhunterforever on July 09, 2009, 11:29:10 PM
Great story, and a hell of a hunt, sounds like a good time, thanks for sharing!:yeah: :tup:
Post by: billythekidrock on July 10, 2009, 06:17:06 AM
Congrats.
Post by: rasbo on July 10, 2009, 06:35:29 AM
Post by: LongTatLaw on July 10, 2009, 08:28:28 AM
Thanks for reading!
Jack, we are gonna get after em in like 60 days bro :drool: the bowtech is slinging!
Ice...Id like to argue...but... :P
There are plenty of snakes and gators (sorry mich...ur wrong) we saw plenty of both!
We chopped up most of the pigs right there on the island... even caped the big one on the island! Our poor kayaks were riding sooo low in the water that they looked more like submarines than kayaks! Both boats had about 3x's their reported max load between the hog meat, skulls, and us!
I may embed the videos at some point but Ive never done it...I think I gotta get em on utube then just embed a link?? Ill get BTKR or someone on here to help me!
The videos were done with a Roscoby riser cam but we pulled it off and my buddy worked it! We got like 5 great kill shots on video and even some footage of me poking around in the thickets trying to kill that 200 lb hog with a knife while its trying to bite me...
thanks for viewing!
Post by: Skinner on July 10, 2009, 11:54:18 AM
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on July 10, 2009, 11:00:55 PM
There are plenty of snakes and gators (sorry mich...ur wrong) we saw plenty of both!
No I wasn't wrong I was being a smart ass. I lived in GA/FL for almost 6 years.
Post by: Alpinegus on July 13, 2009, 09:14:34 PM
I've hunted pigs a couple of time. it's a different ball game.
And it sounds like you guys are crazy. :yike:
Post by: LongTatLaw on July 14, 2009, 09:44:57 AM
me?
I always get that but I have no idea why :dunno: :dunno:
Post by: Skyvalhunter on July 14, 2009, 09:56:09 AM