Here piggie piggie!

Well, I ran down to the land yesterday after church to check on the trail cameras since they haven't been working right, and check the protein feeder and maybe get a quick hunt in.

I've brought people down to the land with me the last 3 or 4 times I've gone down there trying to line them up on some pigs, so of course since I went down by myself and I wanted to make a quick trip of it, there were pigs everywhere!

I got down there and didn't even make it to the first camera to check and I saw a bunch of piglets down by the pond. I stopped and got out and watched them for a bit, but they just trotted off like they didn't even see me. I could hear some other pigs over by the feeder so I snuck over there and there were pigs just laying around on the ground. Most of them were piglets but there was 1 medium sized sow and I shot her. I ended up hitting one of the piglets as well either in front of or behind the sow so I ended up getting 2 pigs with one shot! Here's a picture of the sow getting ready to go in the cooler.

After the pig was in the cooler, I decided to hang out for a while to see if anything else showed up. I saw 6 deer in one of the fields about 600 yards away, and then saw a nice boar hog coming toward me from the west. It didn't seem to like the way things smelled around the feeder so it never came in to the feeder but headed toward the pond and I was able to shoot him right on the path that I use to drive around the property and he dropped on the spot. I think he is the biggest pig I've shot so far. I tried to weigh him, but the old rope that I was using broke twice trying to pull him up in the air with the truck and it was getting dark so I gave up and just got to work getting him in the cooler.

When you look at him without anything for perspective he doesn't look very big.

Then here is a picture with a cooler in it for perspective. The cooler is 2' long and 16" tall. A pretty good sized cooler. (It already has the meat off the first pig in the cooler)

He barely fit! When it was all said and done I ended up with 75 - 100lbs of pork in the cooler.

Here's a closeup picture of his tusks.

It's hard to really tell, but the bottom tusks are about 3" long. They are the longest of any hog I've shot so far. They don't look it, but they are razor sharp and could do some serious damage if they got ahold of you! The large boars have very thick skin around their shoulders that some folks refer to as "armor". It is really interesting when skinning them out.

That's about it for now. It is just crazy that I take folks down there to hunt pigs and never see any and then go down there planning on a quick trip and end up killing 3 of them.

I did get some decent trail camera pictures that I'll be posting in a few days.

Nathan