Another good Friday Night hunt - Hunting and Fishing Community

We are night hunting 880 acres in SW MS this summer and have shot 10 pigs off it.

Last Friday night I hunted a stand no one had been in in 4 weeks, waiting for dark, so I could try out the new night vision my wife bought me for Fathers day.

30 minutes before dark 2 shoats about 60 lbs popped out of the cutover at the feeder. I watched them for a few minutes when two more the same size came out with one about 80lbs.

I put the scope on the 80 lb with my ND3 laser designator set at a dot, just then big momma walked out. She was well over 200 lbs with mamaries dragging the ground, a real breeder.

The wind swirled and her nose went and she started to get fidgety really quick and started shuffling backwards.

I threw the dot and crosshairs on her, right behind the shoulder and the BAR 30.06 boomed and she dropped. Should have shoulder or head shot her.

I swung on the 80 lb hog as it went down the edge of the foodplot and had limbs in my way but shot.... miss.... it turned into cutover I shot again and saw it spin some and disappear.

The other shoats headed left but one turned and was coming at me and I dropped it.

I look up and the sow was gone. Waited till my buddy got there and we went after the sow. She ran 10 yards and dropped into a gully that hit the creek. Looked like you took a paint brush and slung blood everywhere.

She crossed the creek and went up a steep bank and when she got over the rim.....no blood. All the blood must have went to back of her body cavity. 30 feet from the rim there is a huge cutover briar patch.

We could smell pig but could not find blood at night. Just as good because if we had found her, we could have drug her down into the creek but would have no way to get a 4 wheeler in there and get her out.

The 80 lb pig went up into stuff so thick we could not crawl into.

So we accomplished what we wanted. I brought one pig in that is just right for the cajun microwave, and downed two other breeders to help feed the coyotes and buzzards, and probably eliminated a few hundred pigs in the next three years.

Landowners are pleased as we are putting lead in any pig we can, clean shot or not. In this heat, any major wound will be fatal to them.

The landowners talked to some other folks about what we are doing and we now have more land elsewhere to hunt next summer.

Gonna hunt friday night then move some feeders Saturday and head home as I have to go to Bama for work next week.

Oh yeah...... Gen 1 night vision is really great for night hunting pigs when you do not want to shine your shooting light to see if pigs have arrived.

PS..... did I tell you I hate redbugs? I am covered from wading in the briars. Bleach bath helped. Have over 75 of them on my left ankle alone.