I worked this fellow the previous night from 4 to 6 am in the morning but could not seal the deal. There was a bunch of lighting arching high overhead so it was giving me some illumination but also spooking the hog.
The cloud cover was break up yesterday evening so I went out as the moon was coming up over the horizon. As I approached the pond spillway that he was working, I had a bunch of deer run pass me. They were really buggered so I figured it must be him. Heck the horses have stopped using the pond, I think he chased them away! Anyway, I stopped 70 yards out as the grass in the spillway provided a good background. Within 90 seconds he stepped out of the grass. I had a great sight picture through the Weaver with the ambient light so I shot him through the front of the shoulder quartering to me. Boom, he dropped, like a sack of rocks.
I closed the distance about halfway, hit him with the light ,and shot him through the head. I hate approaching a big hog in the pitch dark, I've been rolled a couple of times.
Practice makes perfect! I went up to my range at dark with just a streak of light remaining. I shot the "hog" (really a gong) over a dozen times at 100 yards. I do this often when I figure the stars are aligned.
