2006 North Texas Bowhunt For Wild Hogs
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Bowhunting.net TV Wild Hog Bowhunt

Day #1
It was a longer drive than I had anticipated so I arrived too late to hunt. Blaine Covington met me at the gate of his ranch and we drove around as it got dark. We aw quite a few deer and hogs. 

 The next morning I went with Blaine to see if we could stalk up on a hog and show him about archery. We saw a few hogs but were unsuccessful in putting a stalk on them. 

Afterward, Blaine took me to a small pond surrounded by sunflowers and other high weeds. Blaine set up a Double Bull blind for us to hunt and video from later.

At 10:00 we drove into the town Electra and ate at the Circle L restaurant. We each ate a huge breakfast and then the waitress bragged on their homemade chocolate pie and I got one of those. Their pie was not the normal pudding like pie and it was absolutely the best chocolate pie I have ever eaten in any restaurant.

Tyge Floyd arrived mid afternoon and the three of us went to the Double Bull blind at 4:05pm. Here is a pic looking out of one of the blind's shooting windows.

 Ten minutes before 7:00 Blaine saw movement on the up wind hill side. He opened the blind's top window and glassed the area. He saw a black hog in the weeds. 

 Before long Blaine saw another hog and recognized a large spotted boar that he has seen before. The wind was a cross wind and perfect for us if hogs came from the direction of the two hogs we had seen. 

Soon we spied a group of wild hogs on the same hill side and when they disappeared into the tall sunflowers they were headed our way.

 The group of hogs came out of the weeds and nonchalantly walked along the edge of the water ... toward our blind ... and us.

The largest hog was an off white one and it stopped right where I needed it to stop, but at the wrong angle. Two hogs had a quick confrontation and the hogs all moved away.

That was a good thing because the off white hog turned perfectly. It was BowTech time. I drew and put my pin behind the hogs shoulder. The arrow hit on the money and the hog ran back the way it came. In 29 yards it staggered and fell but regained its footing and ran to the edge of the sunflowers and went down again -- this time for good.

We were almost in disbelief -- things had gone perfectly. And Blaine had it all on video for the upcoming Bowhunting.net TV show.

First Bowhunting.net TV show hunt. First wild hog.

EQUIPMENT COMMENTS:

• This hog was fat and thick and my 62 pound Tribute from BowTech Archery put the arrow through it. This is the smoothest drawing and shooting bow I've ever shot .. and it is very fast. At 31 1/2 inch axle to axle the Tribute is very a maneuverable bow, which was a definite plus in the close quarters of the ground blind, especially with 3 people inside. BowTech's Binary Cam System is the innovation that gives this bow its great bowhunting performance.
• The No-Peep from Timberline Archery proved itself again this afternoon. I have to say that as I drew back my bow I was not 100% confident about using it. But the shot could not have been better. No doubts now, I'm enjoying using this exciting new No-Peep.
• The Razor Tip expandable from Grim Reaper Broadheads smacked through this hog's heart before it exited the other side. The hog ran 40 yards and went down in view. Every Grim Reaper broadhead I've shot flies exactly like my field points. That really makes it easy to practice.
• We used two half inch Rope Ratchets to pull this hog to the truck. The Rope Ratchet beats the dickens out of pulling them by the legs..
• The Spot-Hogg" Real Deal" bowsight has bight pins, and that is a must when you hunt in a blind that is dark inside. This Real Deal was extremely easy to sight in. It uses turn knobs for up and down and for left and right.
• The Razor Tip broadheads were on Gold Tip 400 arrows with the short Bohning Blazer vanes. I also used Jim Fletcher Archery's string loop release, the Flathead. And the arrow rest was a Whisper Biscuit from Carolina Archery Products.

After today's hog hunt Tyge Floyd fired up the grill and cooked us up some burgers and opened a can of those good tasting Bush baked beans. While we ate we made plans for tomorrow's hunt.

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