capt stan
Senior Member
Well after a few days of hunting my favorite spots and seeing nothing and I mean nothing I decided to roll the dice on a spot I had been thinking about but never hunted. This spot gets driven bye a BUNCH of folks who never think about checking this spot out.
I parked and waited for just about Daylight and eased on in. I looked at the map and saw a junction of two creeks and that was my target area. I found it a short while later just as you could see with out lights to get thru the woods. Found a big ol' Cypress tree and up I go. A few min later I'm trimming some limbs out of the way so I can see and I notice a deer moving in the bottom about 100 yds out. By the time I got my rifle up and looking it was gone. In the brush. As it got lighter in the day I realized I could have seen it for a long ways had it been lighter out.
About 08:20 I could hear some grunting and noticed bits of movement thru the thicket about 125 yds out. Hogs...... After playing cat and mouse with glimpses... one finally stepped out at about 85 yds and I could just get the scope on it......slipped off the safety ....BOOM. I worked the bolt waiting on another to give me a look but no luck. They went deeper into the thicket. Then I could hear my hog splashing and thrashing in the water....she was down.
Good part was I was CLOSE to the truck for a change...BAD part was the hog went into the worst thicket you could imagine. I worked to get into find her and I gotta tell ya it was ROUGH trying to get her out!
Anyway good hog For the smoker, Lots of Fat under her hide and real good looking meat! The.270 busted her right thru the energy plant and exited without ruining any meat!! GOOD DAY AT CAMP SWAMPY!!!
I parked and waited for just about Daylight and eased on in. I looked at the map and saw a junction of two creeks and that was my target area. I found it a short while later just as you could see with out lights to get thru the woods. Found a big ol' Cypress tree and up I go. A few min later I'm trimming some limbs out of the way so I can see and I notice a deer moving in the bottom about 100 yds out. By the time I got my rifle up and looking it was gone. In the brush. As it got lighter in the day I realized I could have seen it for a long ways had it been lighter out.
About 08:20 I could hear some grunting and noticed bits of movement thru the thicket about 125 yds out. Hogs...... After playing cat and mouse with glimpses... one finally stepped out at about 85 yds and I could just get the scope on it......slipped off the safety ....BOOM. I worked the bolt waiting on another to give me a look but no luck. They went deeper into the thicket. Then I could hear my hog splashing and thrashing in the water....she was down.
Good part was I was CLOSE to the truck for a change...BAD part was the hog went into the worst thicket you could imagine. I worked to get into find her and I gotta tell ya it was ROUGH trying to get her out!
Anyway good hog For the smoker, Lots of Fat under her hide and real good looking meat! The.270 busted her right thru the energy plant and exited without ruining any meat!! GOOD DAY AT CAMP SWAMPY!!!
Yeah forgot about the fishing trip..we'll still be there friday..lol
