Went up to the Boar's Nest in Kenefic, OK, a place that CRS turned me on to last year. They've got a good sized meat hog area and plenty of hogs available.
We started out by walking the perimeter of the area just to get the lay of the land and to locate any of several groups of hogs that were wandering around. We spotted a couple of good sized groups and stalked one of them to where we could get a shot. My aim was off so the first hog that I settled on walked away unscathed.
We had Paul from the Boar's Nest get on the 4-wheeler and drive some hogs to us but Dave wasn't comfortable shooting at moving targets. A couple more missed shots for me.
We decided to split up and see if we could influence the hogs to move around the area a bit more and this seemed to work out for us. It wasn't long before I was face-to-face with a 300lb boar that should have been over in the Trophy area. This fellow came running out of the thick and turned when he saw me in front of him. I took a shot on him running at about 10 yards but it was not a good shot and hit hit him toward the hind-quarters. He fell at the shot but got up again. Getting shot upset him quite a bit and he started squealing/screaming loudly and he turned to run toward me. I got a little excited at his turn in my direction because he was so close, and I shot him again with a quartering shot in his right shoulder. He fell and got up again. I shot a 3rd time and put a round in his head at the rear of his jaw. That was a tough hog!
I marked his location back in the woods so that I could guide Paul and the 4-wheeler back to retrieve the hog. It took four of us to get the boar onto the 4-wheeler.
We took the hog over to the skinning rack, and just as we got him off the 4-wheeler we heard a shot in the direction Dave had been hunting, and he had put a 100lb hog down with a round through it's left shoulder.
I was hunting with a Marlin 336RC in .35 Rem and Dave was using an FN FAL in .308. Dave said that he enjoyed himself 90% of the time. There was the part where he tripped over a piece of an old fence and fell down that he said was not that great.
I think it was a good day.
My Hog Dave's Hog Dave - With Hogs Bullet from 2nd shot - Stopped by hog's shield
Yes, that was a tough hog.
