Bowhunting For Wild Hogs - 2005
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2005 - A Wild Hog Pajama Party

Food Plot Mix-up
July 30 - A Wild Boar Stalk
Yesterday, to help out the bucks and lactating doe mothers scattered a mixture of Purina deer pellets, milo, oats and corn. Deer came into the food plot area but didn't go to the scattered pellets. 

Surprisingly, a lone wild boar was this morning's first visitor! (There hasn't been a hog within sight of the food plot since Timm got one there.) Using an old shed to block my view I slipped up on the hog. First I got a close up pic. Then I waited for a broadside 15 yard shot. It didn't happen, he walked away from me. When he stopped he turned broadside. I guessed him for 25+ yards and aimed high. My arrow hit where my pin was and bounced off his back. He  trotted into the brush.

Still Stalkin'
July 31 - I was doing web stuff and glancing up at my web cam when all the deer ran off. In minutes the wild boar from yesterday appeared. I grabbed my bow, yanked on my boots and stalked like I did yesterday. Except I stepped on something in the grass that made a metallic noise. When I peered around the corner the boar was showing me his fast moving rear end.

The Wild Hog Pajama Party
August 1 - Daybreak ... I checked my web cam an saw a black wild boar eating my deer pellets. I didn't waste a second, I slipped on my boots, sprayed myself with Scent Killer and went outside in my pajamas. This time I made sure I didn't make any noise and in minutes I was peeking around the corner of my shed at the boar 15 yards away.

"Pictures?" I thought. Hmmm ... not this time. 

Slowly, I drew my bow and held the top pin behind its right shoulder, just below half way, and put my yellow feathers there. He ran into the weeds and fell. I went after him. Woops, he wasn't where he fell. I took 3 steps and saw him in the nearby clump of trees.

The hog went 54 yards. When I rolled him over I noticed a cut on the back. It actually was the hog I bounced an arrow off two days ago. I set it up for pictures, got my tripod, and took a picture of the cut and then my own picture (with the camera's time delay). By the time my wife woke up I had him butchered and in the freezer.

EQUIPMENT COMMENTS:
On today's hunt these products helped make the hunt a success.

• Cabelas Flannel Lounger Pants - The hero of this hunt. Heavy duty and as "Quiet" as it gets. If they came in camo and had more pockets I might wear them a lot more.
• BowTech's Patriot VFT set at 64 pounds, it put my arrow right where my pin was This is a fast, accurate and powerful bow.
• Rope Ratchet - The Hang-Em-High Hoist was just the ticket for field dressing and to bone out the hog -- quick and easy.
• Scent Killer Body Spray - It's worked for me time and time again and it helped out today too.
• Venom Peep Sight's - The more I hunt with it the more I love it. The peep's Blue color and perfect size hole for bowhunting makes automatically center your sight and pin automatically. The elastic tether lines it up right.
• Spot-Hogg Hunter Bowsight - The shot opportunity was only an instant and I had to get the fiber optic top pin on the hog fast. Otherwise the boar would have gotten been past my stand without a chance to shoot. It didn't
• Fine-Line's Hunter Bowquiver i- One of my all time favorites. Arrows come out of it quickly and quietly.
• INNERLOC's EXP expandable broadhead downed this hog out in 54 yards. The broadhead got  complete penetration through both lungs. 
• I used Yellow checkerboard EZE Eye Arrow Wraps with Solid Yellow Gateway Feathers. The bright color showed me exactly where I hit the hog. Knowing that gave me the confidence to go after it right away.
• I fletched the others with the Arizona EZ Carbon Fletch with straight fletch arms. (I prefer straight fletch over helical.) 
• Jim Fletcher's .44 Caliper wrist release shoots smoothly and quietly when I needed it to.