Hog
Hunt With Jay Liechty of Grim Reaper Broadheads
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Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
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Jay Liechty, owner of
Grim Reaper Broadheads |
Jay Liechty and I loaded
our gear in my truck for a few days hog hunting and field testing the new
RAZORCUT
broadhead that Jay's company Grim
Reaper Broadheads introduced at this year's ATA Archery Trade Show
in January.
On the way to Billy Don's
we stopped and visited with a landowner that Jay had hunted with before.
This resulted in an invite for an afternoon hog hunt and since we wouldn't
be able to reach Billy Don's in time to hunt today we thanked them and
went hog hunting.
We drove down a farm road
and we stopped a half mile from where we would hunt. |
Jay led the way to the small
stock pond he had hunted before. We got behind a makeshift ground blind
of large branches. At hog thirty we saw wild hogs on the dam above the
pond but they apparently smelled us and moved on.
At dark we drove to Wild
Horse Prairie Ranch and Russell Carpenter, the ranch foreman, met us and
got us situated. Billy Don was busy loading a couple thousand cattle so
he couldn't be there tonight.
In the morning I was kinda
groggy and moving slow so I skipped a shower and got ready. Russell drove
us to #24, a stand site I had hunted earlier during the Bowhunting.net
Annual Bowhunt. We popped up a Double Bull Matrix and got ready.
After good light we heard
hog grunts and footsteps in the woods behind us. Wooof ... a hog sounded
off. It had smelled us. They trotted away. We waited half an hour and phoned
Russell on the cell phone and asked him to come and get us. No sense in
spooking more hogs away and I wanted to drive around and check out some
other areas.
One of the good hog areas
is called "Horse Pasture" and it is an open, grassy area, a pond, and thick
cedars and scrub trees that hogs regularly bed up in. We went there and
some rams were in the area, near a corn feeder. I took their pic from the
truck window as two of them kept their eyes on us.
We wanted to check the area
out so we got out of the truck. The rams were not overly concerned about
the familiar truck but they weren't good to go with us getting out of it.
They trotted down a trail that went past the pond and into the brush and
trees.
 
Hog sign was easy to find
and we located some trails coming out of the trees that passed near a few
live oaks. Jay put a Double Bull ground blind there.
Actually, on appearance
alone, this doesn't look like a particularly good place to hunt. But nothing
that beats experience and experience tells us that this is an excellent
place to hunt. In the afternoon hogs come out of the scrubs and cedars
and go to the pond. And Jay's blind is right one of their preferred routes.
Further down the road we
saw 4 hogs. They entered a finger of woods near the road. Jay got out quickly
and slipped into the woods a good ways ahead of the hogs. Russell and I
waited and before long we saw two hogs come out of the other side.
Meanwhile, Jay was putting
a sneak on the hogs and got ready to shoot when he heard one coming. But
it was smaller than Jay wanted and he passed.
We saw other hog groups
as we drove back to the lodge.
Jay and I drove into Burnett
and ate a small mexican restaurant on Highway 281. The food was real good.
Russell Carpenter picked
us up at 3:30 and drove Jay Liechty and I out to hunt. We topped a hill
in a wooded area and saw hogs off to the side. Jay stepped out of the truck
and Russell kept driving.
Jay kneeled down and held
still. Before long the hogs were 30 yards away and Jay got a shot at a
hog but missed. The hogs spooked a short distance and stopped behind some
bushes. But Jay couldn't get in on them.
We saw even more hogs before
Russell let Jay off at the Horse Pasture blind.
At 5:30 Jay heard footsteps
behind the blind. About 20 hogs passed the blind and went to the corn feeder.
The hogs were moving constantly and Jay waited, hoping for a shot. A hog
moved away from the group and stopped broadside. Jay took aim and shot
it behind the shoulder. The arrow passed through the hog and it ran to
the left and dropped in sight 80 yards away. The other hogs ran away and
disappeared into the live oaks.
Jay picked up his arrow and
went to the hog. On the way back to the blind he saw hogs coming. Jay uses
a back quiver and it was in the blind. So Jay nocked the arrow he had just
killed the hog with and in minutes he shot a second hog with the same arrow.
It ran 40 yards and dropped.
With half an hour to go before
dark Jay got back in the blind. As Russell drove up another group of hogs
was coming out of the woods.
That's Jay Liechty with
both his wild hogs taken with the same Grim Reaper Razorcut Broadhead (It's
New For 2006).
 This
is a close up of the broadhead Jay used to take the two wild hogs on this
afternoon's bowhunt at Wild Horse Prairie Ranch.
Wild
Horse Prairie Ranch | Email: billydon@direcway.com
| Call: 254-749-6119
| Fax: 254-546-2709
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