This was kind of a little different and it took me reviewing the video last night to figure out what actually happened.
I'm standing on top of a levee of an old catfish pond which is planted in corn for ducks and can hear them thrashing the corn stalks when I arrive.
My first shot appears to drop one so I swing on the second one if the two. I never heard the tell-tale whack of a bullet hitting a soft target, and can hear hogs running toward my position. Within a few seconds I see another hog moving through the the vicinity of position where I dropped the first one. I shoot and down it goes. I cropped off the remaining 6 or seven minutes of video of me nervously panning back and forth including looking straight ahead into the tall grass three feet in front of me. There were at least two more at the bottom of the levee in the thick Johnson grass and briars on either side of me. I could hear then making deep nasal inhaling sounds which I assume is them trying to smell for danger with all their worth?
Eventually things calm down and I got get my truck and decide to go down and have a look for them. Turns out as best I can tell I got to shoot that first hog twice.
I didn't notice it until I reviewed the video but it looks like my fist shot pulled too fat right and must have hit the hog in the in the head. The shot must have knocked it out because it went down only to recover and get back up when I wasn't looking.
I deliberately never aim for the head because I am concerned that I may wound the animal where it can't eat but not an otherwise fatal shot which would cause a slow agonizing death, so I was relieved when I found the big sow in the corn with two bullet holes.
One slice right through the lower jaw presumably from my first shot and one killing bullet hole in chest cavity.
I'm standing on top of a levee of an old catfish pond which is planted in corn for ducks and can hear them thrashing the corn stalks when I arrive.
My first shot appears to drop one so I swing on the second one if the two. I never heard the tell-tale whack of a bullet hitting a soft target, and can hear hogs running toward my position. Within a few seconds I see another hog moving through the the vicinity of position where I dropped the first one. I shoot and down it goes. I cropped off the remaining 6 or seven minutes of video of me nervously panning back and forth including looking straight ahead into the tall grass three feet in front of me. There were at least two more at the bottom of the levee in the thick Johnson grass and briars on either side of me. I could hear then making deep nasal inhaling sounds which I assume is them trying to smell for danger with all their worth?
Eventually things calm down and I got get my truck and decide to go down and have a look for them. Turns out as best I can tell I got to shoot that first hog twice.
I didn't notice it until I reviewed the video but it looks like my fist shot pulled too fat right and must have hit the hog in the in the head. The shot must have knocked it out because it went down only to recover and get back up when I wasn't looking.
I deliberately never aim for the head because I am concerned that I may wound the animal where it can't eat but not an otherwise fatal shot which would cause a slow agonizing death, so I was relieved when I found the big sow in the corn with two bullet holes.
One slice right through the lower jaw presumably from my first shot and one killing bullet hole in chest cavity.
