| Bowhunting
at Rancho Del Zorro
The Digital Log Of A Bowhunt - by Robert Hoague | Day 1| } Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 4 (Morning Hunt) Frost covered the entire landscape at daylight. It was a cold, windy morning. We hunted with a truck with an elevated stand on it called a High Rise. Jim Autrey was rifle hunting. We saw several deer and some coyotes. (Afternoon Hunt) Chad videoed this afternoon and both Jim and I hunted the oat field. Jim's stand was the box blind at the end of the field and I took up shop at the corner where Fatneck has been hanging out. Chad is in the box blind because he can video both Jim and I from there.
Twenty of so wild hogs came out of the brush, crossed the road and began walking into the field, 12 yards from my blind.. I signaled to Chad that I wanted to arrow one. But I wasn't sure he had seen my signal so I looked through my binoculars. Sure enough Chad had the video camera pointed in my direction. I poked my hand out of the blind's shooting window and poked my finger at a large gray one. I took my time, drew and aimed carefully. My arrow popped through the big hogs ribs and lungs and it turned and ran across the road into the dense brush it had came from. It never made a sound and, surprisingly, the other hogs paid absolutely no attention to it. They continued on along the edge of the oat field. Chad signaled me that he had it all on video. The last hour of the day several bucks came out in the farthest end of the oat field. Jim Autrey waited and watched, they were too far for a shot (rifle). When the light began to fade two bucks entered from the right side of the field a hundred yards away. One was a heavier 10 point. All things looked good and Jim aimed his .257 and drooped the buck in his tracks. Minutes later I took pictures of Jim's south Texas buck (picture below). The sun was setting behind us and I used the flash. The flash always darkens up the background of the picture so I checked it in the display screen. Sure enough it turned the background black, but the sunset still shown pink and red on the skyline, making it a cool looking picture. Chad and I took up the trail of my wild hog. From the road it immediately led into the mesquite and cactus. The hogs have tunnels in this dense brush and we crawled and pushed our way through this mess for 50 yards There the had was. We took it's picture right where it expired and then Chad looked around and found us the easiest rout to drag the hog out to the road. I tied my pull rope to the hogs back feet and we got to dragging. Here is Jim Autrey's buck.   For information: about Rancho Del Zorro's whitetail, wild hog and javelina bow and rifle hunts as well as quail and dove hunting, email them. Chad Edwards @ Rancho del Zorro, email: ranchodelzorro@aciglobal.com, or phone: 956-419-1906. Back To Where You Were At Bowhunting.Net |
Two
does came out of the thick brush across the road and browsed on the oats
ten yards from me. Before long I spied an antlered buck in the brush on
my side. He came closer to check out the two does, they weren't happy with
his attention and they fled into the field. He returned to the brush. Several
more deer, both bucks and does, came into our area as the afternoon progressed.
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