I was unable to make it to Wisconsin for the rifle whitetail season. This was the first time in 20 some years. I just had to much going on. I told my dad we would look at doing a hog hunt down south in the spring with my two young boys.
I was lucky enough to be asked to go on a hunt with a guy from another site on his lease. We left here last Wednesday night to get a start on the trip. We finished the drive the next day and we were able to hunt Thursday night.
I had my older son in a blind and my dad had my younger boy with him. We were hunting over feeders but it wasn't as easy as some would make it seem. They are pretty wary. At 6:45 we had 3 turkeys come in, then it almost at the same time 2 hogs came running in. It was like they were racing the turkeys into the feed.
I didn't care about shooting one as much as getting my kids one so I told my son to shoot first and if the other one gave me a shot I would shoot. I fixed my gun on the hog he wasn't shooting at. Right as he pulled the trigger one of the turkeys jumped up. He missed, I then swung on his hog cause it bolted thinking it may have a bullet in and I wanted to get another. If I would do it over I would have fixed my gun on his hog and then shot right after him. He hasn't missed before so I took it for granted he was going to drop it.
Shortly after that I get a text from my dad saying my younger son shot a big one. It was a really big boar. Funny cause our goal was to shoot smaller hogs because we wanted to eat them. Lucky for us he didn't smell to bad and the meat seems to be really good.
The next few days were cat and mouse with the hogs. They would seem to show up at other spots, late or early. My dad did get to shoot at another one on the last night but he missed.
It was a great trip and we will do it again. Forgot my main camera and only had my phone big mistake.
I was lucky enough to be asked to go on a hunt with a guy from another site on his lease. We left here last Wednesday night to get a start on the trip. We finished the drive the next day and we were able to hunt Thursday night.
I had my older son in a blind and my dad had my younger boy with him. We were hunting over feeders but it wasn't as easy as some would make it seem. They are pretty wary. At 6:45 we had 3 turkeys come in, then it almost at the same time 2 hogs came running in. It was like they were racing the turkeys into the feed.
I didn't care about shooting one as much as getting my kids one so I told my son to shoot first and if the other one gave me a shot I would shoot. I fixed my gun on the hog he wasn't shooting at. Right as he pulled the trigger one of the turkeys jumped up. He missed, I then swung on his hog cause it bolted thinking it may have a bullet in and I wanted to get another. If I would do it over I would have fixed my gun on his hog and then shot right after him. He hasn't missed before so I took it for granted he was going to drop it.
Shortly after that I get a text from my dad saying my younger son shot a big one. It was a really big boar. Funny cause our goal was to shoot smaller hogs because we wanted to eat them. Lucky for us he didn't smell to bad and the meat seems to be really good.
The next few days were cat and mouse with the hogs. They would seem to show up at other spots, late or early. My dad did get to shoot at another one on the last night but he missed.
It was a great trip and we will do it again. Forgot my main camera and only had my phone big mistake.
