TXGunNut
12-09-2013, 10:46 PM
So there we were yesterday afternoon, just me and my Guide Gun in a two-man stand called the Spoke. It's called the Spoke because five senderos radiate out from it into the S Texas brush, from due east and west and the other three in between, center is north. No feeder because it has so much traffic it simply doesn't need it, we generally just corn the senderos.
I sat in the left chair for awhile, watched a group of does & yearlings for about 30 minutes while they munched corn but they hung up somewhere around my 150 yard limit. They finally left but after awhile they returned and inched slowly up to 120 yards. About the time I was getting ready to shoot I noticed a big black object out the window on the east end of the stand. It looked like a big black boar at maybe 50 yds and walking away.
Hmmmmmmm....I had a dilemna, didn't I? I love putting the smackdown on big hogs but I had a dry doe picked out on the north sendero that needed to be in my freezer. I pondered that for awhile but the dry doe had been watching the stand carefully and had already wandered off once, didn't figure she'd come back a third time and the overcast skies were getting dark. The hog was moving east down the sendero at a fast walk and seemed a little nervous too.
I decided to go with the hog, only problem I had to change chairs to shoot out the east window. I did so quickly & quietly without alerting the boar and soon had him in the crosshairs, as soon as he turned a little to his right I put a WC'd RD 350 gr boolit just behind his right shoulder. Figured that would take out his heart on the way to his brain. Must have done the trick, next thing I saw thru my scope was four big hooves flying thru the air.
Then the near-impossible happened, I glanced over my left shoulder and the dry doe was broadside where I'd last seen her! I immediately and somewhat quietly changed chairs again and quickly placed the crosshairs low on her chest and squeezed off what I thought was a quick heart shot. As the shot broke I realized I'd changed the scope settings from 2" high to dead on @ 100 yds. She was a bit over 120 yds and the shot was rushed, I'd shot low. After about 10 minutes I got out to check for blood where the doe stood, boar was still kicking but he couldn't get his feet under him so I left him to bleed out. No blood from the doe so I returned to the stand to resume hunting. Sounds odd but critters usually continue to show up after a shot, even multiple shots. I exchanged e-mails with a guy who's buying my mom's house and answered a text from my brother. He was hunting about a mile away and was curious if I needed help, he'd heard two shots inside of 3 seconds and wondered if I needed help. I told him I had a big boar down but rushed a shot on a doe, was still hunting & needed no help. Isn't technology wonderful?
Then things got really wierd, the boar had finally quit kicking and the sun had gone down. I was getting ready for my brother to pick me up and a REALLY big hog showed up just over my left shoulder.
I sat in the left chair for awhile, watched a group of does & yearlings for about 30 minutes while they munched corn but they hung up somewhere around my 150 yard limit. They finally left but after awhile they returned and inched slowly up to 120 yards. About the time I was getting ready to shoot I noticed a big black object out the window on the east end of the stand. It looked like a big black boar at maybe 50 yds and walking away.
Hmmmmmmm....I had a dilemna, didn't I? I love putting the smackdown on big hogs but I had a dry doe picked out on the north sendero that needed to be in my freezer. I pondered that for awhile but the dry doe had been watching the stand carefully and had already wandered off once, didn't figure she'd come back a third time and the overcast skies were getting dark. The hog was moving east down the sendero at a fast walk and seemed a little nervous too.
I decided to go with the hog, only problem I had to change chairs to shoot out the east window. I did so quickly & quietly without alerting the boar and soon had him in the crosshairs, as soon as he turned a little to his right I put a WC'd RD 350 gr boolit just behind his right shoulder. Figured that would take out his heart on the way to his brain. Must have done the trick, next thing I saw thru my scope was four big hooves flying thru the air.
Then the near-impossible happened, I glanced over my left shoulder and the dry doe was broadside where I'd last seen her! I immediately and somewhat quietly changed chairs again and quickly placed the crosshairs low on her chest and squeezed off what I thought was a quick heart shot. As the shot broke I realized I'd changed the scope settings from 2" high to dead on @ 100 yds. She was a bit over 120 yds and the shot was rushed, I'd shot low. After about 10 minutes I got out to check for blood where the doe stood, boar was still kicking but he couldn't get his feet under him so I left him to bleed out. No blood from the doe so I returned to the stand to resume hunting. Sounds odd but critters usually continue to show up after a shot, even multiple shots. I exchanged e-mails with a guy who's buying my mom's house and answered a text from my brother. He was hunting about a mile away and was curious if I needed help, he'd heard two shots inside of 3 seconds and wondered if I needed help. I told him I had a big boar down but rushed a shot on a doe, was still hunting & needed no help. Isn't technology wonderful?
Then things got really wierd, the boar had finally quit kicking and the sun had gone down. I was getting ready for my brother to pick me up and a REALLY big hog showed up just over my left shoulder.