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Duck's
Wild Hog Buck
There's more
on the blood trail than the Duck!
Don Beckwith (Donald Duck)
 When
he put his bow in the back of the truck the Duck noticed that his sight
looked like it was lower than it should have been. He shot his bow. The
arrow was a foot and a half high. The sight had slid in the bar due to
being jogged in transit. He resighted with our Cube broadhead target (supplied
by American Whitetail Targets).
Don hunted #21W. A young
black buck antelope came into the area early on, he walked around under
the oak trees feeding on acorns. It left and returned several time
during the afternoon.
 An
hour before sunset, the antelope buck returned with a nice buck ahead of
it. It came into Don't shooting lane and gave a quartering away shot and
Don took it.
The buck wheeled around and
ran the same way he came, and Don thought he heard it pile up. Don didn't
stay in the stand very long because he didn't want to loose light
if there was tracking to do. He checked his arrow and it had good blood.
A blood trail was visible and Don took a few steps and saw the buck 40
yards ahead.
"Then the excitement came.
I was shaking all over. I walked over to it and saw that it wasn't the
same buck I thought it was, but it was a beautiful 8-point." Don took pictures
of himself and his buck.
Afterward, Don field dressed
the buck and moved it a few feet to the shade under a cedar tree. Don still
had 45 minutes to hunt so he returned to the stand.
Ten minutes later "here comes
whole slew pot of hogs, with some pretty good sized hogs." A large boar
stopped at the blood trail, dropped his nose and sniffed his way along
the blood trail -- toward the dead deer's entrails and the buck. Other
hogs noticed him and followed suit.
Don knew that the wild hogs
would eat his buck and, climbed down. The hogs scattered but still hung
around. One boar stayed on the blood trail. When Don got close to the boar
it stepped into the cedars and stopped. Other wild hogs all around. in
the cedars
Don drug his buck 50 yards.
"A lot of hogs were on the gut pile. I could see and hear a big mass of
hogs on the gut pile."
The Duck drug the buck another
50 yards and waited to be picked up. Darkness fell, and it turned into
one of those c cloudy, moon less, star less nights. The hogs came closer.
Don heard the noise of a truck and the hogs disappeared into the woods.
Don
Beckwith (Donald Duck) and his 8-point buck.
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