| 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 5 (Morning Hunt) Cold, windy and overcast. Chad took us to a new location up the road from the oat field. Jim harvested a buck yesterday so I am the only hunter now. While the sky was still hazy a buck with a very fine set of antlers walked out of the brush. He paused and looked in our direction, since he was out of bow range I turned on my camera and took his picture.  (Afternoon Hunt) It was still overcast and cold as we returned to the oat field. This time Angie Edwards (Chad's wife) came along to hunt for a doe or wild hog. Jim videoed from the box blind and Angie hunted from there. I hunted in my Double Bull blind at the corner of the oat field. Jim and I both had radios so we could keep in contact.   I waited patiently for Fatneck, but he had his own agenda and was not going to show up today. Later in the afternoon a couple of sows and their piglets came across the road and started rooting at the corner of the oat field. (You may recall that I am at that corner.)  I told Jim I was ready to shoot and which hog I had picked out to do the bow and arrow boogie with. Then I set the radio down and waited for a broadside shot on the hog. He obliged when he was 12 yards away. I drew and aimed very carefully, behind the shoulder, just right for the complete pass through we wanted for the TV show. I released. A perfect shot. The gray hog raced into the brush 15 yards behind me and all the hogs scattered. Half an hour later more hogs came. Angie took aim (rifle) and dropped a big spotted hog. With less than 20 minutes of daylight left we took a picture of Angie with the hog. 
Angie Edwards with her spotted hog. Angie said she knew exactly where my hog had entered the brush and we went there. She was right, we found bubbly blood and we started on the blood trial. Chad drove up in his truck and Jim and Angie went to give him the news. Chad called to me to see where I was and I answered so he could find me. By now it was dark and I was tracking with my flashlight. Suddenly, out of the cactus ahead of me, a dark hog object charged straight at me. My flashlight is one of those big suckers and I swung it as hard as I could at the thing's head. Somehow it ducked the blow and zipped back a few steps and stopped. I didn't wait for it to charge me again, I went after it with every intention of knocking his noggin to the moon. Woops! It was Beth, Chad's chocolate lab. Beth didn't want to play, she took off. The blood trail led to the back side of my blind and turned right along the edge of the brush growing at the side of the road. But, in the dark, we could not find any more blood and could not tell if the hog had continued on the edge or had crossed the road. Either way the brush is low and thick and is tough to manuver in. The hogs just bulldoze through it, but we aren't bulldozers. So we decided to take up the track in the morning. To Day #6 ... 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 |
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