2006 Bowhunt For Wild Hogs @ Texas "S"
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July 5 - Day #1

MORNING HUNT: Our plan is to stalk the wild hog so we waited an hour and a half after daylight before we took to the woods. We wanted to give the hogs time to find a place to bed down.

That's Rick Philippi above and we are starting our hunt. This area has been very dry this year and and the ground cover is almost gone. When we have been here before in the spring and summer there was plenty of ground level greenery. But not this year, Merle Smith (the owner) told us they are 17-inches behind on rainfall.

A mere two hundred yards into the woods and only 10 minutes into the hunt we saw a group of wild hogs rooting around up ahead of us. Rick used the trees to block his view and slowly  moved closer to them.

I eased along behind Rick and took a few pictures.

When Rick was almost in bow range one of the hogs saw us and they walked away. 

We turned to the East where some brush piles are, we have found hogs bedded down in them on previous hunts at Texas-S. We were not disappointed and saw a hog sleeping in the leaves by a tree. Contrary to what you would think, wild hogs sleep very deep and stalking them is definitely possible. The hog (bottom left in the pic below) was sound asleep and Rick slipped into bow range from the hogs rear side. 

Unexpectedly, when Rick drew his bow, a smaller hog stood up in another brush pile and darted behind a tree. 

Both hogs trotted away and Rick, still at full draw, looked back at me and and said, "That was a close one!" 

We changed directions and went to another proven area, the largest pond on the property. We checked the edges of the water for wild hogs from a high spot. Nothing was happening here right now so we walked across the dam.

On the far end of the water Rick pointed toward a group of pine trees. 

Another group of hogs was in the stand of pine trees. They walked along in the shade of the trees and we followed.

They kept walking and we followed for 10 minutes and the terrain opened up. Then Rick saw a situation he liked better .

On the other side of the nearby scrub oak trees Rick saw a wild boar ... that was by himself. 

So pursued that situation. The boar did not see us but he was on the move and we couldn't close the distance. Then Rick saw more hogs.

COMMENTS: This gets us started with the hog hunt updates. At this point in the hunt the time is 10:49 and we have already been into wild hogs several times. I have more pictures to work up and upload and then there is a lot of hunt left today for both Rick and I. (Continued...) 

July 4 - Travel Day
This afternoon Rick Philippi and I are driving to Merle Smith's Texas-S Bowhunting Ranch to bowhunt wild hogs on Wednesday and Thursday. If you want to check out our past hunts at Texas-S here are the links for the bowhunts in 1999, in 2000 and in 2001 & 2004.

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