desmond
"runnin' with sasquatch"
I've been after "Brutus" for a couple of years. I have found him a couple of times in the woods, but he would blast out of a shot in a hurry. He seldom came to the feeder, usually late at night/early morning when it was still dark. Very few times I have captured him on camera during the day. The last couple of weeks he was coming in pretty steady around 10-12pm. So I went for him Saturday evening at the feeder site. There are no roads out to this feeder and it is a 3 mile ride through mesquite trees that I carved out a trail for my ATV. I get there around 7pm get everything ready and wait. There was no moon so it was dark. Once it gets dark I move from one field blind, a mesquite tree, up to one that is closer, 25 yards from the feeder. Now I can only see using the thermal and it is hard on the eye so I am only checking the feeder every 5 minutes or so. I just happen to catch him as he is behind the feeder just outside the fence sniffing the air. He chomps on some grass but walks away. One of those, should I have taken the shot? I thought no, I should wait for a better shot on him and then waited for other hogs to show up. I was going to wait until 11:15pm and then go to another place. Around 11pm I check with the thermal and there he is, on my side of the feeder, 15 yards away. He's nervous, he is still outside the feeder fence, but wants corn. He almost runs but starts walking towards me. He stops for a second and I fire. He bolts out of view of my scope and I can hear him running. I don't know where he is until he sprints past the tree I'm under. Holy ****, it was like a freight train at top speed going by. I thought did I miss? No way. I looked around, but it was so dark, scary, and I did not want to hang out with that beast around. I came back the next afternoon and the buzzards were everywhere. He was 50 feet from where I shot him. The buzzards had him chewed up but I took some pics. I got another hog that I shot and ran into a cattle tank and two piglets with one shot.