Got up to another early cold morning. Went out to sit on the "L" field to first wait for hogs, then call for predators. Sat in the stand until about 7:30 with no hog sightings. Started calling for about a half an hour with the mouse distress call to hopefully coax a bobcat out.
Around 8:00 three deer came out. I switched the call to the rabbit distress call. The deer took three steps towards me, stopped and ran back into the woods. I wished I had tried the deer call on the caller to see what the reaction would have been. I was picked up around 9:30 with no other interesting animals coming into the field.
We fed stands around Hemingway for a while and headed back to the lodge. After a short break, we headed down to Georgetown. After feeding several stands, I was seated on the "Green Strip" stand. It was a very nice late afternoon. Sun was out and temperatures were in the 60s. There was a bald eagle flying around which was really neat to see on such a clear day. Not much was happening, but the stand was a big double ladder stand with camo covering so it was very easy to stay comfortable. Around 5:30 a pig came out from behind the corn pile. It ran to the corn pile and started rooting at the corn. I watched it through the scope for a few minutes. After not seeing anything else, I waited for it to turn broad side and head-shot it. It flopped around for a few minutes and dropped to the ground. It seems like all hogs look very small once they are on the ground and this one looked like the size of a cocker spaniel. I saw two other hogs way past the pile over the next half hour. First, a smaller hog came out, then a much larger pig was seen in the same area. I thought about trying to shoot the bigger one, but it was a very long shot and the angle wasn't real good with the rise of the ground. Also, I has just shot one and it is best not to be greedy. After dark, Rick came to get me. He had already gotten Judd who had shot a large sow and with the same shot killed a very small pig.
We went to get Rachel who had also shot a pig. We trailed the shot pig, which had a decent blood trail to the edge of the rice swamp. Nathan went quite a ways into the swamp, while being "coached" by Rick about the alligators, but he never was able to find the pig. We packed up the truck and headed to the skinning shed. My pig was about 120 pound boar - a good eating size pig. Judd's was approximately 150 pounds and the small pig was a couple pounds. After skinning and cleaning the hogs (Judd's wasn't skinned because it was going to the processor), we headed back to Hemingway.
And two more days to hunt still.
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