Go to that well one more time...............

        Well I followed the same pattern that keeps working and checked the wheat field first which had zero action then headed to the favorite trees. This time when I got 475 yards from the truck to my vantage point, I caught heat. It was three deer under one of the hot trees. I watched them move off and slid into a better position to watch the bottom and caught three hogs across the creek on the neighbor's land. I watched them for thirty minutes then one brave soul crossed the creek and headed straight to the tree my son took the two sows off of the evening before. The wind was blowing 10-15 and this lone hog was skittish and left pretty quick. I reset on top the ridge and an hour later caught him about 70 yards away at another of the last trees dropping acorns. The hog kept it's face in the ground the whole time as I slid into position for a shot. This spot has now produced six kills in a row and they know something is up. I will leave this spot alone for three nights and return. I am expecting a change to winter wheat soon about 1,000 yards away but if these trees keep producing quick sightings I will keep going back

https://youtu.be/Z9Utd7eKTxg

Get in their dining room

       Tonight I had the trigger man, yes the trigger man that delivers, my son Hunter. We checked one field and then headed to the pasture with the old oaks (property H) and again just like last time when we hit the ridge about 475 yards from the truck and looked down on three old oak trees, there they were, four to six hogs feeding right where I dropped the last sow days ago. My son had the ATN OTS scanner around his neck and as we began to circle to the group of hogs we passed another favorite oak and hogs were under it. I got Hunter set up quickly and a big sow was picked out.
Hunter dropped the sow in it's tracks with the Ruger 300 Blackout sending a Night Ops 110 grain Controlled Chaos custom round to it's mark. We knew the other hogs wouldn't go far so we slowly went down the ridge and took pictures before heading towards the first group. We didn't get far and looked back toward our first hog and three others were feeding toward us. The cows had also moved into our area, some standing feet away. We stood there watching these three hogs for about fifteen minutes and more hogs began filing around us. We videoed off and on and talked of strategy as the hogs moved in and out of the livestock but I knew they would make their way to the fruit producing trees. It was a great learning experience as we watched the hogs fight and feed directly toward our targeted tree. The plan was to wait until we shot in a safe direction at the hill and tree so there was zero chance of any livestock getting in our way or behind our target. The patience paid off and the trigger man did his job, two shots, two large sows and many more hogs to come back to.....
Check out the video link below and see our hunt. If you ever get to hunt with me, we watch the hogs for some time when livestock is around and make moves into position. Hunter has learned that even if these hogs get spooked off or don't go by the plan, we will find others. We can never risk a shot for a harvest or a video. Always confirm, reconfirm then make sure it is a hog or yote. Many times I have dropped an animal and see others within seconds and it is another species or livestock.

    The trees bordering this field are still producing and we will keep returning until the hogs hit the winter wheat. Three specific trees have produced the last five harvests and sightings of at least two dozen more potential movie stars. There also is a mouthy pack of yotes close by but I can't seem to get to them without seeing hogs. That my friends, is a great problem to have..... Until next time


https://youtu.be/1UbfP_afWrM

When that iron is hot , keep striking

       Tonight's plan was a one and done to get some rest and get over the current bug.
Property H was still hot but I stopped off at another spot to see if they were hitting the fields good
there yet. A single hog I know well was in the usual spot and he spotted me as I crested the hale bales and took off again. The full moon helped this guy  but I know I will find him there again, maybe on
my next hunt.May need the heavy artillery for this guy and my long range set-up. Spotted him about 275 yards out and in the full moon he had a slight advantage plus my hefty profile is more apt for rolling than low crawling.

      So I head back exactly where I took the last two hogs and as I approach the first old oak , it seemed this tree was close to if not done dropping it's feed. I made my way to the back two trees and as soon as I crested the hill I spotted my prize. Six to eight potentials about 290 yards out. A quick wind check sent me in a quarter circle around a wooded finger and down to their bottom. They stayed locked under that tree as I made my approach.

     I stalked to the edge of a brush island within range of the 300 Blackout and as close as I could get for the video and sent a 110 grain Night Ops LLC Controlled Chaos round on it's flight. The rest for this hog is history and as I stood over her taking this picture, the acorns continued dropping all around. They will be back , believe I  will be too.

12-2-17 Coyotes crash my party

       On a hog sit and as I was at my camera checking the card for the previous two day's hog arrivals ,
some mouthy coyotes started sounding off rather close but off of property. I had previously gotten
this black coyote picture here so I threw out the ecaller half way between my camera and myself in a
brush-pile. Three groups of coyotes answered my howls so I switched it up. It wasn't long and I caught a coyote bounding through the timber toward the 40 acres I have permission to hunt which is a fresh clear cut. He played hard to get for a short bit but I got him to cross the creek. At the shot I reached for my remote to play pup distress while following him with the scope and thought maybe I had missed wishing he wasn't the black coyote. I waited thirty minutes with zero calling then as I was looking for blood with my remote to my caller in my blind, I look into the woods and a coyote is slowly stalking parallel to me. I spot this one with my scanner and by the time I get to a tree he hides behind a rise. I catch pieces of him in the thick under-brush until he starts barking and raising cane.
A rookie mistake as I stand there with no calls and a pissed off coyote looking for a fight. I cut my look short thinking that is the coyote I missed until I return home and check the footage. I hit the coyote and his buddy was the other visitor. 30.4 pound male