The night I shot the brute

[Blr243]

I got 3 dozen pigs on the previous trip but this time I was doing it real tough and a couple of hours after the sun had set on the evening of my last hunting night I had only roughly 15 and I had not expected numbers to improve on my final night ... but I was thinking , please just let me shoot one real good boar. After bugger all happing in the cultivation I headed over to the neigours cattleyards in the hope that some pigs might be hanging around for scraps of hay the cattle were dragging out of the feeders, There was a stack of cattle there and a few pigs too but nothing special. I had a good wind directly in my face. It was approx 1130 pm some cattle were lying down and a few were standing , one weaner was off to my left in a small pen but I was mainly focusing on the pigs that were among the cattle in front of me and how I could get one without endangering the cattle. After a while I realised that the weaner on my left was actually a bloody good boar and I begun frantically thinking about how I could get in position for a shot , But it was not to be and he moved behind a tank and mobbed up with the cattle. I did not know if he was behind them or amongst them. I searched frantically with my binos while standing there not wanting to let this opportunity pass me by. I was rock solid still but my mind was stressed and incredibly anxious.. After a while a few pigs moved out of the cattle and into the open only 50 from me and the big boar was one of them. It was as if all my Christmas s had come at once. My binos were turned on and secured with a strap around my neck. All I had to do was drop them and lay down in the cow s**t with my bipod and rifle and take the shot , but not even after having previously shot prob over a thousand of pigs was I now calm enough to correctly function ..... instead I fumbled in the darkness with the buttons on my binoculars randomly pressing stuff in all sorts of stupid order and thinking stupidly weather I had the video on off, stopped or in photo mode..... but none of this mattered. Eventually I did drop down to the ground and do what I had come to the cattleyards to do. After taking lots of photos I floated back to the house full of euphoria and very content https://youtu.be/iRtpCgThEIQ

[Wm.Traynor]

That thing looks as Big As.............one of the cattle
Good shot too

[Blr243]

Thing is a good description...it looked so round in every dimension like he had been inflated with air and was about to lift off and float across the paddock

[duncan61]

Excellent work

[GQshayne]

Did you get a photo of it???

[Blr243]

Yes I have posted it before

[Blr243]

Somebody caught it castrated it and released it years ago Put on a ton of weight because of not shagging himself silly