Hog Hunt
one time down in se Oklahoma me and three other guys went out on a hog hunt it was on public land and we set up camp the night before although none of us had ever hunted this country before we had heard about all the hogs in the area and was anxious to get started the next morning. loaded for bear we all paired up and started out me and the guy I went with took off and decided to just circle this one mauntain to see what we could come up with we took off and walked and walked and never even seen a hog. There was a lot of sign but just no hogs it was getting about time to eat so we dedcided to go back to camp and get a bite. since this was just going to be a short trip we didnt bring water or anything to eat but when we started back there was something bad wrong neither one of us was paying attention when we left and we were both about as lost as lost could be. lol I told him well lets just pick a direction and head that way we are bound to find a road and find camp from there. So we took off and out of four directions we had to have picked the only one that led right straight away from every type of civilization we walked and walked it was one of them hot humid summer days and we were about to dry up an blow away no water with us and of all rifles i had picked to bring it had to be the number one ruger varmiter with the bull barrel and single action pistol with enough ammo to start a war which wasnt that bad an idea in the part of the country we were in it still got a little western down there from time to time. We were drinkin from creeks when we could find one. we walked all day and toward evening we finally cam upon a road with a dump at the end of it where people would dump their junk I looked up and seen a tennis shoe there by the dump. I told my buddy that if the other one was there I would trade these cowboy boots for them in a minute my feet were killin me lol. We were drinking from tire tracks with water in them jsut move the bugs aside and get a drink we were so thirsty. So finally we found a road we walked down the road for a few miles and finally found a hiway we get there and finally luck was on our side there was a house lets jsut hope someone is home so here we go walking up this guys drive and he is outside cutting wood, he looks up and says well you boys look like you are lost and kind of had that grin that tell you he wants to laugh but is triing really hard not to, we told him we had been lost most of the day and he ask us whre we were camped we told him at the end of road 8000 and he looked at us and said well yo uguys must be worn out that is about 26 miles rom here the way the crow flies we jsut looked at one another and thought we aint going to make it back today lol. The guy told us to go to ther house and tell his wife to fix us a glass of tea and he would take us back over there as soon as he finished up what he was doing so into the house we went and his wife had us sit on the couch and got us some tea we looked up at the mount he had on the wall this whitetail was in a shoulder mount and couldnt have scored more than about fourty points you could have set a soft ball in the middle of it and not fell out we jsut looked at one another and never said a word. he cam in after awhile adn we got in his truck and he hauled us back to camp. we thanked him and ask him what we owed him he just told us to have a great hunt and not to worry about it he had been there too. It is really nice to find real country people like that around once and awhile especially in country where you are about as likely to get shot as not. it is just good old back country whre the economy has got so bad that some of the people have had to go to raising drugs and other things just to survive so you never know what you will walk up on.
Any way we got up the next morning the two of us went our way the other two went theirs we made a circle since we deceded not to get to far away from camp after the day before and we got on top of a clearcut and looked back toward camp and here are the other two guys sitting on the tail gate of my truck so we diecide to have some fun with them since we still hadnt seen any hogs we only took our pistols with us that day so we took them out and each shot at a water hole to make the guys at the truck think we had got into the hogs... I looked over toward the truck and about nine hogs had been bedded about fifty yads from us and took off to the creek I showed my buddy and we both shot one and i start walking over to mine and heard my buddy hollaring at me shoot him im out of ammo and hes after me lol i look over and his hog is about thirty yards away crawling on his front legs chompping his jaws and this guy is freakin out lol. shoot him hes after me i tell him jsut wait a minute im out of ammo so i start walking over to th hog as i reload walk over his head and put one in his head as i step over it my buddy is walking over shaking his head man you saved my life i jsut laughed yeah whatever..then later he told me a funny story after he got back to his senses he told me he was reloading and evidently he had been conting my shots too because he still had two rounds in his own pistol lol. But ut was a good hunt the other two guys just sat on the tail gate and watched they never werent back out they were afraid of the ticks which were bad the hogs were loaded with them. we just threw them in the creek to cool them off and get most of the ticks off them before we skinned them..hog hunting is a good chalenge when there arent any other seasons open.

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