Adrenaline rush
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09/30/22 08:54 AM
09/30/22 08:54 AM
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Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,923 SW Georgia
Wanna Be
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There’s something about sneaking in on hogs under starlight with the wind in your face. I had them on camera and parked about 250yds away and started slowly stalking in from downwind. I count my steps trying to calculate my distance and start slowing down considerably as I get closer and start smelling them. Once you catch their scent you ease along tree to tree keeping the scent strong in your face until you can hear the soft feeding grunts and finally the chomping of their teeth. You bring the gun to your shoulder, eyes closed, because it seems to improve the other senses. Your pointed to the sound and smell and open your eyes looking in the scope as you click on the red light. It’s at that point that you realize you have gotten a little too close, lol! You find the biggest in the sounder and squeeze the trigger. At the shot it’s nothing but a dust cloud in your face due to the high winds. The fact that the dust continues let’s you know your aim was true as one is lying there kicking his last bit of life away. You’re scanning side to side to make sure all the others left and not coming at you. When all is clear, you click the light back off and wait until your heartbeat settles back down and the rush of adrenaline subsides. The night slowly returns to normal and you ease up to make sure the hog is down for good. After hauling the big boar off, the deer were back feeding in less than 40 minutes.
Last edited by Wanna Be; 09/30/22 08:56 AM.
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Re: Adrenaline rush
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7682277
09/30/22 09:08 AM
09/30/22 09:08 AM
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Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 18,607 Green County Wisconsin
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been out trapping pre dawn and all the eyes looking back at my red head lamp
not really anything we can hunt besides raccoon and coyotes like that here in the dark but it does sound like a rush
I have walked up on deer to about 5 yards and popped on the white light and the freeze just stuck there for what seems like an eternity but is probably 5-10 seconds
I can see why people did it , a skill for hard times I would say for sure.
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Re: Adrenaline rush
[Re: Leftlane]
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09/30/22 12:16 PM
09/30/22 12:16 PM
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Posts: 506 Arkansas
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Looks like it would be all kinds a fun until you meet a big snake Or a skunk. I shot this hog last night. Third time is a charm. I shot him three months ago in the front shoulder with a 6.5 grendel and he was back on camera a month later with a crippled rt front leg. I shot him a month ago with a 12 ga load of BB Hevishot. He was back on camera two days later. I have gone after him at night several times - only to find he had already left when I got there. Set the alarm for midnight last night. Woke up and looked at text pics and he was in a spot I feed the deer - gorging on expensive feed. I pulled on my clothes and headed out on the ranger. Walked in the dark the last 200 yards. Couldnt find the hog in the thermal where he was supposed to be. I had bush hogged a 100 yard area for my field of fire. Found him in the thermal just about to exit the field. He didnt run off from the .450 bushmaster. I have embraced my hogs. We have no quail, no rabbits, very few turkeys or ducks. We have deer and hogs. I fire my gun maybe once or twice a year at deer. I might shoot a couple hundred times at hogs.
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Re: Adrenaline rush
[Re: Wanna Be]
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09/30/22 01:22 PM
09/30/22 01:22 PM
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Posts: 4,949 Aliceville, Kansas 43
Yukon John
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That's a true feral WannaBe! Didn't realize Hampshires were in the wild, very interesting!
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Re: Adrenaline rush
[Re: Yukon John]
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09/30/22 02:09 PM
09/30/22 02:09 PM
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That's a true feral WannaBe! Didn't realize Hampshires were in the wild, very interesting! I see a fair bit of Hamp blood in the hog population on one of my properties. Eight miles away, the Hampshire characteristic is fairly rare. I probably average killing 100 or so hogs a year and maybe 10% have Hamp coloring. But that percentage is biased as I tend to pick hamps to shoot when there isnt an obviously big or pregnant hog in the bunch.
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Re: Adrenaline rush
[Re: Leftlane]
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09/30/22 03:37 PM
09/30/22 03:37 PM
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Looks like it would be all kinds a fun until you meet a big snake Nothing like stepping om a snale. Nothing feel like it.
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Re: Adrenaline rush
[Re: Yukon John]
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09/30/22 08:59 PM
09/30/22 08:59 PM
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Posts: 4,332 East Texas
BTLowry
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That's a true feral WannaBe! Didn't realize Hampshires were in the wild, very interesting! Most of ours are black or mousy gray But we get the occasional hampshire and gloucester old spots My good buddy loves the spotted ones, calls them exotic swine I don't discriminate, I kill them all!
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Re: Adrenaline rush
[Re: Providence Farm]
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09/30/22 10:56 PM
09/30/22 10:56 PM
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Joined: Feb 2022
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Heck wannabe the one and only hog I shot was off a feeder in Florida. They scattered after the shot but before to long a few were back out and one was rooting under the dead boar for the corn he fell on. Most stayed in the thick stuff but some were coming out within minutes. I would imagine it wouldn't take long in other places either? It just depends. When I bought my place twenty years ago, we saw and killed a lot of hogs in daylight - including around feeders. As time went on, they became more and more nocturnal. Now, they are almost totally nocturnal - rarely see one in daylight. Not only are they nocturnal, most dont show up on cell cam until two in the morn and gone by five in morning. I spend more time and ammo hog hunting than any other hunting sport. In our state, it is legal 24/7/365
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