3 trips to areas we had success before - no piggy's no tracks - no sign , even after cooler wetter weather.
Last trip yesterday - hunted hard all day -still nothing- Decided one last spot we had drove by but didn't hunt .
Walking a creek bed . up a canyon that we knew opened up a little back in about a 1/2 mile. It was late afternoon about 2:30 when we heard " oof " on the side of hill. PIGGYS -- it's a sound they make when they get nervous in between a woof and hoof when u exhale.
My friends are ahead of me but we get ready - I can't hardly hear anyway but I believe my partners when I see they get ready -stop point and start quietly oofing back at the piggy's.
we spent 15 minutes being patient-talking to this piggy -we know is talking back. We don't know how many ! We are kinda surprised as the wind changed and now it's blowing right up the draw/canyon instead of down it -inour faces anymore. We all look at each other and know it's probably over.
Noway -piggy is still oofing. Next thing we know there he is at about 50 yrds in the wide open creek edge . I can't shoot- my one freind is sitting , he can't shoot. That leaves my other freind standing with his crossbow steadied on his shooting stick. The piggy turns and is coming right at us . He comes about 20 yrds before he stops and stares and then turns broadside . Twang- thump -the bolt rips thru him- double lung-right behind the front leg-. we see a huge blood spot on his side -he disappears into the thickets.
2 of us know it a good shot-- Shooter doesn't - lol . we assured him - he had a dead piggy.
3:05 - we sit oofing 15 more minutes - i slowly move up, inhopes i can get a shot too if more are around.
3:20 we move up,find bolt, it's covered in blood-good hit
Piggy made it about 45 yrds before piling up in the thickets on the side of the hill.
gravedigger broadhead - 405 barrnet ghost - 22in bolt
first pic- entrance shot-- second- exit shot - third is the creek bottom looking back to the open foothills. Not all hunting is done in the desert . yes even we get snow
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