Crazy night

The wife and I were setting in camp under cover enjoying a crazy rain storm when a hog walked up to camp. He quickly ran off. I got my binoculars and checked the feeder about 120 yards away. The green light was on and he was under it. I grabbed my rifle and climbed my 8ft tower in the storm. Very difficult seeing him in the dark and rain. I finally got a second green light on him and let a round go. The impact was loader that the shot but I watched him run off into the brush.

The wife and I decided to wait about ten minutes (finish our beer) and walk down to see if we could find him. We knew I hit him with the impact. She was using my green light and I had a spot light. When I got about 20 yards from the feeder I noticed a second large hog under the feeder. The storm was covering our approach and he didn't notice the white light. I took a one handed shot with my pistol while holding the spot light in the others. I'm sure I didn't hit the second one but I didn't care as I really wanted him out of there.

We searched for a while in the rain then decided to head back to camp for another beer. Went out in the morning and look what I found. He was 220 lbs with small cutters. I hit him with a 308 and he still made it about 35 yards. I'm really glad he didn't stay in camp long. Great time at our property. The dog and kids were the smart ones as they were in the RV when this all went down.


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Roughing it huh? Sounds like a good night!

Nice!

Good hog down! Wonder how he wandered to your camp area ... maybe he smelled food. Lol

Now that is really having to rough it...Good going!!

Yeah, your camp looks like a real hardship tour. Nice hog down.

Good hog. I'm more impressed that your wife was out in the cold rain looking for him with you. You married a good one.

I'm interested to know how that firepit works inside that building?

How do you get the smoke out?

That is a patio cover/garage attached to the building

Wildfowler said:

I'm interested to know how that firepit works inside that building?

How do you get the smoke out?

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When it rains we pull it just inside the cover. Sometimes the rain blows in and puts it out. As long as there is a small wind the smoke blows out a side.

FrankT said:

That is a patio cover/garage attached to the building

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This is a garage with a large storage room attached. It works great for us. We store every in it or under it while we are gone and hang out under it while we are there. We sleep in a RV That is parked next to it. Some of the best money we spent on our property. Very well put together.

This is when we first put it in. We have added more base around it.

What a great means of an outbuilding! Oh, yeah... nice hog too.

you be stylin brah