Good day folks. Notice I didn't say morning. I don't know WTF time of day it is. This hog hunting is serious business. We slept in yesterday, had a big breakfast then butchered Larry's hog. Glad we ate. No lunch or dinner. Met at the farm and hunted 3pm to 10...well it was MIDNIGHT before we got out of there. Nobody killed. I saw one, didn't come to feeder and I couldn't see thru night vision because of the tree limbs in the way. Useless. We had a helluva lightning show for 3 hours or more. Lightman probably had it with rain. We were far away but the lightning as crazy. I did see some cooons and a couple possums on the halfshell (armadillo). They are freaky on the thermal monocular!
Anyway, as we are leaving the farm at 12:15am, the hog lady sends us pics. Two of the feeders we just left had hogs on em. One was mine. Missed it by 1/2 hr. So wemade plans to meet at 5:30 AM. Got back at 1am, turned the clocks ahead and set an alarm for 5. That left us 3 hour's sleep. Well at 4am, hog lady wakes us all up to make sure we're meeting at 5:30???👨🎤 So with 2 hour's sleep we went back out. Hogs were on the feeder where I was to go already, but we got there and they were gone. Nobody saw any pigs. I saw a nice 8 pt buck, still had both sides. Get back, another text. Hogs were on one of the feeders we weren't at this morning.
So, time for a quick nap, shower and late lunch in a bit, then we head out for the last hoorah. Hunting 5-9 and that's a wrap. We're giving it our all. Somebody's gotta catch a break.
Oh, and this place is COVERED in coyotes. 4 different packs were howling last night at once. Had em less than 100 yards several times and haven't seen one yet! This place is THICK and nasty cover.
Good night, or whatever time you're following. I sure don't know.
Have a good one.
Charli