The pig is DEAD...Headshots FEATURED

[ssiredfish]

This pig walked out just before turkey season last year while I was sittin and introduced himself to me. This was the first time I realized we had a BIG hog cruising the property. That was the last time he was seen during the day and just over a year ago. Between then and now he absolutely terrorized our place. He smashed 3 feeders multiple times even drove me to staking 1" galv pipe into the ground with T-posts bolted on only to come back and find it twisted up like a pretzel and my feeder mech broken. Weve since replaced two feeder mechs, strapped feeders to the pines, straightened up this, raked out that, cleaned up this and repaired all that.

After dozens of shared hunts over the year we never caught up with him in daylight or night. He was almost mockin us as we would check our cams to find him there an hour later after we left and occasionally before we even arrived. So with Turkey season fast approaching and our "one-yr anniversary" comin up, I wanted to do something real "special" for em......My Uncle convinced me its time to just trap him and we went ahead and procured a trap we thought would be adequate.......it wasn't.

We came up a few weeks after it had been set to find the whole thing dug out(no bottom), gate closed and no pig.....not even a trigger on the cam we set on the trap. Im tellin ya this thing is good!!! So we re-baited the trap with a lil corn syrup for incentive and left it be for a few days with a 2" ratchet strap w/ earth anchors for good measure.

We came back last Saturday and as we approached we saw the gate was triggered but again no pig.......then he stood up. YES. We got em!!!!! I grabbed my 45 and Pate got the camera. It was just the kinda reunion I had in mind. No doubt he recognized me by my smell when I got up there. For a second there I imagine we looked like two Pits ready to grab each others neck. It was time......I lined up.......and then you pushed play. (Special thanks to the trailcam hangin on that tree right there that just so happened to work at the right time....this time)
http://youtu.be/hldAHrpOvMg