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By\u00a0Patrick Kelly<\/p>\n

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This story has been republished with the permission of\u00a0Patrick Kelly, who, at the time of writing this article, was preparing to go on a bear hunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was planning on leaving for my bear hunt early Friday (June 12) morning, but I decided to leave Thursday (June 11) instead, so I could make a stop on the way. I cleared it with my hunting partner, and got off of work around 7:30 p.m. on the 11th, and headed home. After dosing a sick horse with some medicine, I decided to go grab a battery from a light by a feeder, so that I could charge it and put it out tomorrow morning before I left, so that, hopefully, it would last through my bear trip.<\/p>\n

“No sense in not taking a bow,” I thought to myself. So, I grabbed my Silvertip recurve, and one arrow tipped with a 175 VPA\u00a03-blade broadhead and a lit nock and began the 1\/2 mile walk to the feeder.<\/p>\n

I got there around 8:30 p.m. and, wouldn’t you know it, there was a hog under the feeder who\u00a0spotted me and took off – with a raccoon hot on his heels.<\/p>\n

“Oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained,” I thought.<\/p>\n

I decided to back off into a small cluster of trees around 90 yards from the feeder and see what happened in the short time until dark. I promised my wife that I would head home by 9:45 p.m. to eat the steak she was cooking.<\/p>\n

A little before 9:30 p.m. came around, and I was just getting ready to head out, and I saw a hog sneak out of the drainage to my east and make it’s way to the feeder. I figured it to be around 100 pounds or so.<\/p>\n

I was wearing very faded jeans that seemed to glow in the low light, so waited a few minutes for it to get a little darker to make my move.\u00a0I slowly moved to the west to put the light (a slow glow light, which was already in position) between me and him, and then headed toward the feeder.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stalk was a little complicated, because between me putting on some weight and my jeans having shrunk some, they actually were squeaking when I walked, and the wind was dead still. I was also wearing a pair of hard sole Wellingtons and the ground had dried out considerable in the last two\u00a0weeks in which we haven’t had any rain. I actually covered the distances sidestepping as quietly as I could, while holding my pants\u00a0to keep from squeaking, all the while bearing in mind that a\u00a0light wind could swirl at any minute and bust me.<\/p>\n

I quickly covered the distance, and as I approached the light, I could see the hog, which now looked more like 175 pounds, under the feeder, and a raccoon feeding between him and the light. The light is not even 10 yards from the feeder.<\/p>\n

Just before I made it to the light, the raccoon heard my slight noise, which the hog didn’t hear with his corn munching, and stood on it’s hind legs. He couldn’t smell me, and the light was blinding him, but he knew something wasn’t right. He decided to head for the drainage, and I moved a couple steps closer to the light, now only around 8-10 yards from the hog.<\/p>\n

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I could see him bending at the knees to get under the feeder, and I could see his front leg clearly, but waited a few moments to see if I would get a better shot. He was facing to my right, and he decided to back up to my left and step just away from the feeder. When I saw his front leg clear the feeder, I quickly came to draw and release. The nock lit up, but the hog took off toward the west (my left), banging the arrow off of the feeder legs and breaking the nock. I heard him circle into the brush toward the south and it sounded like thrashing. I thought that he probably was dead, but I texted my wife to tell her I was on my way to get flashlight, and that I had shot a 150-175 pound hog.<\/p>\n

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I headed home, ate some steak, and went back\u00a0out with my wife and the dog to make a quick track and get started. Poor blood on the dry ground, but the dog found the hog in a couple of minutes, and I was pleasantly surprised with my very quick glance that the hog would go 225 pounds. I marked the spot, drove my wife back to the house, headed in to town to pick up a couple bags of ice, then came back to start the field dressing. When I got a good look, I was very happy. I didn’t weigh him, but I am sure that he would go 275 pounds. What a chore it was getting him into the truck. I really had to be creative.<\/p>\n

I double lunged him, and he went around 50 or 60 yards, but no more. The arrow stopped on the far side of the shield and broke off when he dropped. Dropping this hog off at the butcher for my mother-in-law, but I’m going to really be needing another freezer if my luck holds up on this bear hunt.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Patrick Kelly This story has been republished with the permission of\u00a0Patrick Kelly, who, at the time of writing this article, was preparing to go on a bear hunt. I was planning on leaving for my bear hunt early Friday (June 12) morning, but I decided to leave Thursday (June 11) instead, so I could make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,75],"tags":[18,47,9,19,13,84,89,21,36,39,90,22,23],"class_list":[],"yoast_head":"\nTales From the Rut: Spur of The Moment Bowhunting Success<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You may have a specific kind of bow hunt in mind. 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