Letter from Brad.

Just had to share this with you.

My son and I went to the river the other day to hunt hogs, hadn’t been there in a while, so thought we could give it a try. Our plan was to go through the bottom cross the creek and call into the timber where there is always hog sign. Well we didn’t make it. My son was scanning the side of the bluff and in the shadows he spotted a big black boar laying down resting. So, he got on the shooting sticks and steadied himself for the 270 yard shot. He shot the boar and the whole side of the bluff lit up with hogs going the other way.

 

I immediately turned on the call (sow hysteria) and within 3 minutes here come 2 sows with piglets. I’m trying to video with my phone since our camera is down and my son dropped both sows. The piglets disappeared and we kept the call rolling. In about 2 more minutes here comes those piglets, and they ran by us about 20 ft. away, my son got 3 of the 5 before they hit the timber behind us. We kept the call going about another 3 or 4 minutes, and then turned it off, waiting and looking another 3 or 4 minutes. Now we decided to go look for the one he hit that made it to the timber. I laid my 300 against the round bail we shot from and went to the timber about 75 yards behind us. We had only been in the timber about 5 minutes and my son thought he heard a squeal coming from the bluff we just called from. I quickly got to the edge of the timber and looked up to see 15-20 more hogs coming in our direction. There I am standing there with no gun, trying to get Bradley’s attention.  It couldn’t have been more than a minute before Bradley got there, and when I looked back, I saw no hogs. Then as I heard something to the right, I looked up and all those hogs were 25 ft. away coming right up the edge of the timber. They stopped about that time and looked at us and Bradley cut loose and got 5 more before they got out of sight.

 

As we were gathering them all up for pictures we were discussing how we would have only got the first one on the bluff if it wasn’t for calling! I never fired a shot, and it goes to show you what one person can do calling and being patient. We found 10 of the 11 that were shot. We have found that just about every time we called hogs, it’s best to stay put a good bit after you turn the call off, cause that’s usually when they show up. Needless to say, this was one awesome hunt we won’t soon forget. Bradley and I both know people at our jobs that hunt and we have turned them on to your calls. They are also having success,  in fact one guy is in a contest this weekend and sent Bradley a picture of some hogs they called up, one weighing 272 lbs. that will probably win it. He was fired up! Thanks to you and Glenn for opening up a whole new world of calling hogs. Keep up the good work. By the way, a bullet HP would have looked good in this picture!

 

Good Hunting!

Brad Nobile