My brother (Anthony2991 on this forum) and I have been holding the property and monitoring hog activity for 2 Missouri friends of ours. Well they came down this week and they each got one on the 1st night (both rifle kills). It feels really cool to "guide" someone to a kill. Yesterday was their last day here and they were too tired to put a final hunt in due to slaying crappie on the lake. I decided to get a hunt in. The hogs showed up right at sunset..... as I drew down on this spotted pig, a massive boar stepped out. The boar instantly dwarfed all the other hogs and I wanted him bad. I let my bow down and waited for 15 minutes but he was not interested in the feeder at all. He never gave me any opportunity spending most of his time out of sight. Since I was losing daylight fast I took the next biggest one in the pack. The shot was extreme quartering towards so arrow went into neck and out of opposite armpit. Slick trick magnums strike again! A 50-80 yard track with easy blood trail. Check out pics My guests rifle pigs: And my bow kill pig from last night: Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Wow, looks like a lot of fun! I might have a chance to hunt hogs in South Carolina and am hoping to get my first hog with a bow.
This last kill was at dusk with no special setup. I do have a stabilizer light but the pressure switches crapped out after I got caught out in a heavy rain one time... it is a nice bow light but now I just use it as flashlight since the flashlight end cap still works. The light is the elusive wildlife kill light xlr 100. I'll need to get replacement pressure switches... I have yet to be successful on a night hunt... the first time I got excited and drug shadows across the pigs and it spooked them (a green light). I switched to the red light and I think it's much better as far as animals not noticing it but haven't got a chance to use it on hogs at a feeder. One time I walked up on a pack of hogs that were crossing a road and shined the red light on them... they didn't seem to care until I shot my pistol at them (I missed). However the real reason I haven't been successful on a night hunt is because we figured out how to keep the hogs coming in daylight: we adjusted our feeder times to 1.5 hours after daylight and 3 hours before dark. Right now my feeders are 8:30 am and 4:30 pm. Of course packs will still come at night (especially lone boars) but this seems to really hold daytime patterns. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Yea I would really like to get a night hunting setup so I could do that on my lease as well for hogs. But after last year when they clear cut and thinned our lease I guess it pushed all the hogs out. Plus we have caught a lot of pictures of dogs in the area, so we feel like someone has been running dogs too. I'm not complaining about hogs being gone, but it was nice to have something to go after out of hunting season.
