I hope you have several targets, and shoot straight. From your past hunting stories, I don't think the shooting will be a problem. I will look for the update in the morning.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
Well...Leon, it wasn't all that eventful. There has been a group of 5-6 hogs of about the same size (150-175 lbs) coming into the feeder between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. each evening. Plenty of daylight left to shoot. Stand is 100 yds. away and the wind was blowing right from the feeder to the stand this evening. Couldn't be better.
I decided I'd better go a bit early and be ON the stand by 4:30 just in case they showed up sooner than before. Also, while I don't relish waiting on hogs to show...I DO like being out in the woods, far from the house, far from those things that worry a man, alone with my thoughts.
The feeder went off at 5:30 as programmed and I chuckled as a dozen or so Mourning Doves feeding below it... were put to flight. It startled them but good. I love the sound they make when they suddenly flush like that. I don't know what syllables to write here that would imitate it, but those that have heard it...know what I am talking about.
The hogs were running late this evening for some reason, 6 O'Clock, then 6:30, then 7:00 O'Clock came and went. I was beginning to wonder if they would even show. Of course it was well dark by then and the feeder was being illuminated by the red LED lights. I could see a cottontail under the feeder and I watched it for a few minutes through my binoculars. As I was watching .... it suddenly stopped eating and alerted to its right...then quickly disappeared, a sure sign
something was coming. Hopefully my hogs.
Sure enough ....a single black hog popped out of the brush nearby and started feeding. But nothing else! Hmmmmm...could this be a lone hog and perhaps the only thing I'm going to see? I watched for a full five minutes and nothing else appeared. Thinking this was going to be it for the night, I committed to shooting the 'bird in hand' but had to wait as it had turned directly away from me.
That crazy hog fed (showing me only it's South End) for another 5 minutes...never once offering to turn. While I waited...the 'group' finally showed up and started jockeying around for the corn (of which there was plenty), but pigs being pigs...they are going to fight.
Once they settled down I picked out a sort of Blonde colored hog (I will get better pics in the morning) and placed the cross-hairs high on the shoulder. The pigs were not bunching up at all...so no chance for a 'two for one shot' this time. The shot broke and as I recovered from the recoil I could see the remaining pigs scattering in all directions. They were gone in a flash, good cover is only yards away.
But the other thing I noticed was the pig I had shot was doing that wild 'kicking' thing they often do when sustaining a CNS (Central Nervous System) shot. I am used to seeing this...but this pig managed to kick itself about 3 feet forward and right INTO the only mud hole at that bait site. What a mess retrieving it. I had to wash it off in order to halfway show its color.
I would not be surprised if the remaining group returns in a few days. They seemed especially greedy on the corn and I waited a good, long while before getting down...to let them move off. We will see. But for tonight, one less hog.