FrontSight
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At Tioga Preserve in PA, this past Saturday.
Now, I know most of you are thinking it's a canned hunt and blah blah blah. And yeah, it aint real hunting, but they are trapped wild and then transported there. And besides, none of that makes a difference when a 225 pound hog comes running at you full steam from 50 yards.
That's 225 pounds of snarling, jaw popping, growling, insanely angry eyed venom...all muscle and snout and wire brush for hair, a living torpedo of a beast, hell bent on making my day way worse than I could have imagined...
And I never felt so ALIVE
It was absolutely breathtaking, the most exciting few seconds I've ever had while hunting, without a doubt...deer hunting will never be the same! Wow, I think all I wanna hunt from now on is dangerous game! What a rush, I tell ya...
I make no excuses; it was my own faullt...I got nervous and hit it in the ham on my first shot (I am usually much better, I swear ). Came charging at us, and I finally dropped it at 15 yards after missing once, blowing off its bottom right tusk with the next round, which stopped him and spun him broadside and then I was finally able to spine him. Still required a finishing off shot, point blank.
Was using a Marlin 30-30 XLR with hornady leverevolution rounds. Hell of a lot of damage from that little round; I was really impressed...
Anyway, the place is awesome, the lodge/house very comfortable, the food is phenomenal & beyond plentiful, the guides are excellent & everyone is nice as all hell. Definitely plan on going back, and I recommend it whole heartedly.
My buddy got, swear to gawd, a 400 pounder, with a compound. It was fixing to charge him as well right before he shot!
Lemme know if anyone cares about seeing pics and I will post them. You won't believe the steaks that came off of my buddy's boar!
Now, I know most of you are thinking it's a canned hunt and blah blah blah. And yeah, it aint real hunting, but they are trapped wild and then transported there. And besides, none of that makes a difference when a 225 pound hog comes running at you full steam from 50 yards.
That's 225 pounds of snarling, jaw popping, growling, insanely angry eyed venom...all muscle and snout and wire brush for hair, a living torpedo of a beast, hell bent on making my day way worse than I could have imagined...
And I never felt so ALIVE
It was absolutely breathtaking, the most exciting few seconds I've ever had while hunting, without a doubt...deer hunting will never be the same! Wow, I think all I wanna hunt from now on is dangerous game! What a rush, I tell ya...
I make no excuses; it was my own faullt...I got nervous and hit it in the ham on my first shot (I am usually much better, I swear ). Came charging at us, and I finally dropped it at 15 yards after missing once, blowing off its bottom right tusk with the next round, which stopped him and spun him broadside and then I was finally able to spine him. Still required a finishing off shot, point blank.
Was using a Marlin 30-30 XLR with hornady leverevolution rounds. Hell of a lot of damage from that little round; I was really impressed...
Anyway, the place is awesome, the lodge/house very comfortable, the food is phenomenal & beyond plentiful, the guides are excellent & everyone is nice as all hell. Definitely plan on going back, and I recommend it whole heartedly.
My buddy got, swear to gawd, a 400 pounder, with a compound. It was fixing to charge him as well right before he shot!
Lemme know if anyone cares about seeing pics and I will post them. You won't believe the steaks that came off of my buddy's boar!