Jeff Bags A Big Warthog In Round 2

2008
Jeff Bags A Big Warthog In Round 2
By Jeff Lockhart
Jun 25, 2008 - 6:28:02 AM

On Day 4 of the hunting, for the afternoon hunt, we move from Four Ways Pos to Johan's Pos; located way back in the bush of the Omapyu Sud ranch, along a dry river bed, in a particularly wooded area.

Early in the afternoon a family of warthogs, including a rather larger male, came into the water. I actually had an 8 yard shot; however, I did not compensate correctly for the short yardage and the arrow only passed through the fat at the very lower part just behind the left leg; hitting no vital organs, and definitely not a fatal shot. The next morning the black tracker Andreas came and found a very sparse blood trail, until he was only following the tracks. We gave up on this animal; knowing that he would live to be hunted another day.

On Day 7 of the hunt Will Smith (my PH) and I went back to Omapyu to hunt the Johan's Pos for the morning hunt. Early in the morning a female warthog came into the water alone; she took a long time to come in. I passed on her hoping that the large male would come back to the waterhole for a drink.

Low and behold he did. He was also very skittish and took a good 15 minutes to make up his mind to come in and drink. Finally, he came in and presented me a shot.

Will ranged him at 18.5 yards I smoked him with my 100 grain Grim Reaper mechanical broadhead. You could see the blood pouring out as soon as he turned to run away.

We went over and found my arrow only about 5 yards past the hit. It was crimson all the way up to and including the fletchings; proof enough that the hog was mine. We tracked the Warthog for about 300 yards and found him in a small ditch, in the middle of a thicket of bushes that bite you when you get into them.

We were able to pull him out and get the "Hero Shots". After a close examination we saw that it definitely was the hog that I had shot earlier in the week; the unmistakable 3 blade entrance wound just low, behind the leg was there. What a relief it was to be able to finish the animal off; when it came into the waterhole it had showed no worse for the ware prior to the second shot opportunity that I made good use of.