Just to set things up:
450 Bushmaster 250grn Hornady rds, 6x Leupold scope, Wicked Lights in Green LED
Ground Stand that gets me about 4' above my victims, heavily screened with Pine limbs and a camoflage net, and me wearing a full ghillie suit.
Everything in the blind has been washed or sprayed with a scent eliminator, especially me.
Sprayed a scent cover on the camo net to give additional insurance, cause this particular hog can smell a mosquito pass gas at 1 mile.
I have a feeder set up for a 75 yd shot, with a Inhawgnito remote control light, and i have been feeding corn that i sour in water and add 2 OLD beers and strawberry jello and i have turned himinto a serious alcoholic.
The Victim:: I have named this big boar "The Phantom" because he has been under my gun 3 times and dissappeared before i could get a good shot. I don't shoot till im confident in a clean kill because i dont want to wound any animal, and i WILL NOT track a wounded pig into the brush/swamp at nite. As i tell my buddies" No body, it didnt happen".
Got to my stand saturday nite about 5 ish, the wind was in my face so i was real happy. At about 6 a turkey walked onto my corn ate a little and then walked to within 10' of me and never saw me. So now im thinking if he shows up i got him this time. At 8 a small group moves thru the corn but a coyote pack started raising cane down in the bottoms and made them spooky and since "The Phantom" wasnt with them i let them go. This is a common tactic that i have observed on my game camera, he let this group go first and then his group shows up about 30-45 minutes later.
At 9:15 more hogs show up, and i recognize a little white spotted pig that i named Waldo so i know this is the Phantoms group. I triggered the remote feeder so they have some more corn to eat and it lets them spread out a little more. The Phantom moves onto the corn and takes a bite and moves out of the light, a few minutes later hes back and takes another bite and moves again. This continues on for several minutes and then he disappears from view and i hear him moving away down over the hill. WHAT THE @#$%!!!!! How has he busted me? nobody else is concerned, so what is going on??
So at this point the corn is disappearing so i decide to hit his biggest girl friend. I wait till she is broadside to me at 75 yds, turn on my Wicked light for just a little more clarity, line it up and BAM! She drops like a rock, and everybody scatters. I wait a few minutes to see if anybody wants to join her, but no takers. So i go over to her, heart/lung shot right thru the armor anda nice exit wound. Very impressive for me. Load her up and go process her.
Next morning, i go back about 11 ish to refill my feeder since i am going to be gone for two weeks. I walk up to the feeder and start to fill it up and i can smell hog. I look around, check the wind, and start walking down over the hill from the feeder and about 60 yds out is a boar dead as a hammer. Apparently he was behind the sow that i killed and the thru and thru got him as well. I look him over and he was a double lung shot and he is a thru and thru as well. Can you believe the thumper put a 250 grn thru 2 pigs, that 4 layers of hog armor??? Im sold , and now my buddies all want to borrow my rifle to hunt hogs as well. Ken
I will post a pic of the sow as soon as i can resize it.