A group of hogs have been coming into a bait site for several days now….but at different times.
Sometimes at night, sometimes in the daylight hours. Two days ago they came in at 1:30 in the afternoon, yesterday at 4:30 in the afternoon, but they’ve never been any later than 7:30 at night.
Figured I’d take my chances and go sit for them at 3:00 p.m. hoping they would show up before it got dark, but willing to stay a couple of hours longer. Not very cold this evening and I have an insulated and heated Box Blind, so what the heck…. off we go!
On stand at 3.00 p.m. 4 O’Clock comes and goes, no hogs. Then hours 5 & 6…..still nothing and it is now dark. Hog lights have come on at both bait sites, one at 130 yards the other about 95 yards away.
Soon its 7:00 p.m. and I am beginning to wonder if the hogs are going to show tonight or not. Just before 7:00 I catch some movement near the edge of the brush at the farthest bait site. Then I clearly see a wave of piglets descend on the corn I have broadcast on the ground. Soon afterward….a few medium sized Sows joined them.
I let them feed at that site….knowing they would go directly to the closer bait site (feeder) once they were done. That would give me a better shot opportunity and the hogs would be more ‘settled’ by then.
I passed on an excellent chance to take two Sows with one shot (something I always look for) because there was a spotted Boar in this group that I’ve been after for a while. I waited for him to walk by one of the Sows (he never would calm down and feed) and tried to time the shot (Boar in front, with a sow about 3’ behind him).
This is the ‘group’, but not the shot opportunity.
At the shot the Boar went down and Sow behind him went down, but got back up and ran with the rest of the group into the brush. I could hear the Sow squealing as it made its exit. I found good blood going into the brush and will go back in the morning and see if I can recover the second pig.
Spotted Boar: