We were hunting #9 in the morning for Sika. I had to let a big bodied Sika walk because it was to dark to judge his antlers, but he looked like a whopper! Rachel was with me in the blind, but asleep. I watched two other Sika stags play around for about an hour and waited for the big guy came back - no luck.
Eventually two hogs came in, but Rachel didn't feel comfortable shooting 100 yards with a red dot scope with no magnification. We decided to leave and got out of the blind. We looked back and now saw around 10-12 hogs at the feeder! Since the wind was blowing towards us pretty hard and the sun was at our backs, we decided to stalk up to the hogs!
We moved from cedar bush to cedar bush - getting closer and closer. Eventually we got within 10 yards, stepped out from behind a bush, and Rachel shot the closest hog! There were some bigger ones, around 200+lbs, back in the brush, but it was probably a good thing we didn't shoot one of these with a .223!
She made a clean shot and dropped the hog on the spot - it took out the spine. It was a sow and weighed 75 lbs. We cleaned it back at the cabin and kept the rump meat and backstraps!
Congratulations Rachel!
