I was hunting axis deer all morning and was heading back to the truck,when a herd of does started barking nonstop.I ignored it for a few minutes then figured I would take a look.I found the herd in a small valley filled with vine and cactus a couple hundred yards away.

I am looking the herd over when I see this Calico boar cruising through the valley.He ends up right in the middle of a pile of deer that are all in panic mode.I put the reticle on him,pulled the trigger and the Rem 700 308 did the rest.

This is a Cajun shot East Texas wild boar from around Elkhart at 8:30 at night on November 2, 2009. There was a full moon and I used an ATN Aries 390 Paladin night vision scope with a weaver mount on a Tompson Center Venture 306. The round hit 3/4 of an inch behind the ear at over 90 yards and the hog froze on all fours as he was hit. I called my brother on the wireless and said I missed him shoot him Eric. He shot and hit the hog in the leg at the elbow and the bullet splintered the leg and the hog fell over to our delight. We had got him. The shot at the leg shattered the leg but did not hit the hog as we walked up on the hog there was no sign of a good hit on him. Until we searched throughly did we find the hole behind the ear. I went to get my Uncle and the truck and Eric was going to guard the hog from preditors from the stand. The truck fell through the bridge at Hank's crossing on Squirl Creek and we had to go back to the barn to get the tractor to get the truck off the bridge. The tractor could not get the truck up out of the hole and we were back to the barn for a jack to lift the truck and pull it off the bridge. My uncle said, "well at least we did not need the car to jump the tractor. to get the truck off the bridge." Once the truck was off the bridge we fixed the hole and drove down to the lower part of the pastures to retreive the hog that Eric had defended from at least on attack by Cayotes. He said what took you two so long and we told him the about the troubles. We finished gutting the hog up by the house that night and Hank said well boys I have had enough fun I am off to bed. He is 87 and quite a sport about everything. The next day we tore the bridge completely apart and repaired it to last for the next fifty years. HERBIE was the hog we saw the next night wadding accross the three feet of water in the bottom of the pasture where Squirl Creek and Turkey Creek come together and a beaver has decided to make a place for himself. HERBIE snorted each time he had strided in a motion through the water. We both had beeds on him at 50 yards with no chance of missing but I said to my brother Eric do not shoot him till he gets out of the water because the mud was knee deep plus the water it would not be fun to pul that hog out.  He agreed and HERBIE winded us. Showed us his hind quarters and made for the woods. HERBIE was three times the size of the hog we shot. The butcher said the hog was two and a half years old and the hog weighed after gutting around 175 to 200. These are photos the next morning on our way to the butcher. We are going after HERBIE this spring.

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The boys knocked down this big boar a week ago. Both Colton and Cody shot at the same time, rolled him and he never got back on his feet. After we hoisted him up with the truck, he weighed in at over 350 pounds. He looked like a small black bear when he came in, as it was dark and he was in the shadows.  Good shot boys!

WOW! What an evening after dove hunting! Arrowed the Red Boar and as the truck was coming to get me a few hours after dark, the black one walked out in front of me 11 yards, and I shot him in the head with a MUZZY 125 and drop him like a prom dress. No tracking. That was too much fun! Glad I had the tractor. Sad my ther half wouldn't let me put them on theground for photos. Maybe he was jealous?  LOL.

We hunted about 15 hours by train and an additional 3 hours by truck north of Moscow. The area was primarily small villages and the ruins of failed collective farms. This is a scene from the small village next to the hunting lodge. Notice the primitive means of drawing water.

Hi dosranchhand, this was in the afternoon while checking feeders at my lease in Robert Lee,TX (near San Angelo) called the Butterfield Peak Ranch. We got lucky and saw one pig in the pasture before they sensed us. It was a blast, my buddies where watching in the truck while they thought I was shooting and missing the one hog we had originally spotted, they couldn't see the other pigs as I. After their laughter stopped of all my misses, I showed them the pile of pigs and the high 5's started. It was great and very memorable. Thanks and happy hunting, Chris Nicholes