The photo
above is a wild boar shot at 200 yards with a Remington .270 right at
dark. It was about 40 degrees out and the wind was picking up. We had
harvested 5 hogs the day before and was kind of expecting not to see
any since we had put a hurtin' on 'em the day before in this area.
I decided to hunt a stand overlooking a 100 acre, 3
year old cutover. I heard hogs squealing all hours of the day in the
cutover but never once saw a hog. About 4:30pm I had a sow come in
with 8 little ones and watched as she nudged the piglets, trying to
show them to eat off the sweet potatoes and corn we had used for
bait. I think this was the first trip out of the thicket these little
guys had seen as they were unfamiliar as to what a sweet potato was.
They eased back into the cutover and didn't return the rest of the
day. About 10 minutes till shooting light was out
I noticed 5 hogs coming down the road bed in front of me. I eased my
gun up and waited for a perfect shot. All of a sudden a group of huge
sows (estimated over 250 lbs) came out and spooked the other hogs
further away from me. I knew light was fading fast and I needed to
make a shot on one. I was about to shoot a big sow when I noticed
this boar hog standing broadside at 200yards in the middle of the
road bed. I put the crosshairs on him and hit him a little low. We
tracked him for a hundred yards or so through a briar patch and found
him laying in a ditch. This area in NC is
infested with feral hogs and the population continues to grow as does
the areas that are not known for having hogs. |
