I mistakenly posted this on another thread instead of starting a new one. Here it is:
Went out last night and found a sow with at least a dozen piglets right in the midst of about 40 deer 400 to 500 yds away, thru mesquite saplings , and cactus, and bull nettle etc. Fortunately she wandered off a ways from the piglets and deer, but was headed for a brushy wooded area. Got to within 100 yds. Knelt to try to get steady, lined up the shot, and then, just as I got on target my foot slipped in the soft sand and BOOM....before I was ready. As I regained my posture, I looked and she was laying there kicking !!!
I looked up to the sky and silently said, Good shot LORD , Thank you . Took a couple of wild shots at the tiny piglets as they were running off, but didn't hit anything but sand. I had to put two more rounds to the head before the sow stopped breathing, so all the trauma was in/around the head. The pics aren't too good but I put'em in anyhow. She was big and fat, was either full of milk, or another batch of pigs.
Went out last night and found a sow with at least a dozen piglets right in the midst of about 40 deer 400 to 500 yds away, thru mesquite saplings , and cactus, and bull nettle etc. Fortunately she wandered off a ways from the piglets and deer, but was headed for a brushy wooded area. Got to within 100 yds. Knelt to try to get steady, lined up the shot, and then, just as I got on target my foot slipped in the soft sand and BOOM....before I was ready. As I regained my posture, I looked and she was laying there kicking !!!
I looked up to the sky and silently said, Good shot LORD , Thank you . Took a couple of wild shots at the tiny piglets as they were running off, but didn't hit anything but sand. I had to put two more rounds to the head before the sow stopped breathing, so all the trauma was in/around the head. The pics aren't too good but I put'em in anyhow. She was big and fat, was either full of milk, or another batch of pigs.