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Well, My wife asked me to take my daughter camping this weekend. She had some girlfriends coming over after an Xmas party. So I gladly obliged. Left work a little early, loaded up, picked up my daughter and headed out to deer camp. Arrived just before dark and unloaded the truck and just mixed a stiff cocktail. Bob had put some corn in the road earlier and we all loaded up in his truck and went to way-lay the piggies. He has seen them coming in just at dark the past couple of days. My 3yr old, Jade did as she agreed and was very quiet and almost still. We didnt have to wait too long until the pack arrived. Jade saw them and was very excited. She knew what was coming and covered her ears as she watched the pigs in the road. I had my trusty
Savage .243 Lever gun rested on Bobs side mirror. I saw this huge sow but she was in the back of the pack and wouldnt allow me a shot for about 5 minutes and it was getting dark quick. Finally she ran some other pigs off and gave me a shot. I poked her right in the left eye(by sheer luck) and she dropped in her tracks. The rest ran off. We went to survey our kill and were amazed at how fat this sow was. Jade ran around and hollered for a while with excitement. With Bobs bad shoulder and my sore back, we couldnt load her, so we tied a chain around a leg and dragged her back to camp. We went to hoist her in the tree and my 4wheeler could barely get her off the ground but we Got r done! Got her gutted and found that she was about to drop a DOZEN piglets...
Saturday we loaded the 5 pigs that we had in the trap and sold 3 of them. He wouldnt buy anything under 80lbs. The big boar was 226lbs... The ones we kept were 65 and 68lb sows.. They, along with that fat sow will be turned into cured hams and sausage..
Robert( the guy in the other pic) had some luck duck hunting and downed a few gadwalls. The Girls watched all of the processing and were very interested in all of the goings on. Each girl hooked a nice bass, but both got off. Had a great weekend! sorry for the long winded report.
The pic is not that great.... but here it is.
Savage .243 Lever gun rested on Bobs side mirror. I saw this huge sow but she was in the back of the pack and wouldnt allow me a shot for about 5 minutes and it was getting dark quick. Finally she ran some other pigs off and gave me a shot. I poked her right in the left eye(by sheer luck) and she dropped in her tracks. The rest ran off. We went to survey our kill and were amazed at how fat this sow was. Jade ran around and hollered for a while with excitement. With Bobs bad shoulder and my sore back, we couldnt load her, so we tied a chain around a leg and dragged her back to camp. We went to hoist her in the tree and my 4wheeler could barely get her off the ground but we Got r done! Got her gutted and found that she was about to drop a DOZEN piglets...
Saturday we loaded the 5 pigs that we had in the trap and sold 3 of them. He wouldnt buy anything under 80lbs. The big boar was 226lbs... The ones we kept were 65 and 68lb sows.. They, along with that fat sow will be turned into cured hams and sausage..
Robert( the guy in the other pic) had some luck duck hunting and downed a few gadwalls. The Girls watched all of the processing and were very interested in all of the goings on. Each girl hooked a nice bass, but both got off. Had a great weekend! sorry for the long winded report.
The pic is not that great.... but here it is.
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