2025 Hog Hunt Day 4 - Pandora's Hunt

I was putzing around online after getting up and saw something on Reddit about Pandora and it got me thinking that "hope" in the context of Pandora's Jar is not something positive; it is just as evil as everything else that escapes when she opens the jar.  It keeps people going when there is no realistic chance of success.  It promotes inaction by people who assume everything will work out.  It forces people to hold out for a better future that may never arrive.  Hope is hunting.  

But hunting is what I was in South Carolina for.

Gary was going to meet some cousins for breakfast, so Rick and I went to get Will after he dropped his truck off for repair.  After a stop at Hardee's, we all fed stands.  A few weren't hit, but as usual, most where.

I had some down time at the lodge so I took another walk down to the river.  Soon enough it was time to head out.  We stopped by Denis' house; Denis and Claude drove their own vehicle in case they were still contagious.

I was dropped off at the Sea of Pines stand.  The trees had grown up a phenomenal amount over the previous two years.  It was still pretty and a comfortable stand.

Temperatures were cooler than the previous day, but it was still very sunny with only light breeze.  It was a nice afternoon which was good since there was not much moving other than deer.  I kept hoping something more interesting would pop out, but it was an uneventful afternoon.

No one had seen any pigs, it was deer all around.  I went to bed hoping one of my final nights might turn things around.