The Outdoors on borrowed time

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

At least you got your nails done

My wife Alma usually doesn't go hunting with me.   Fishing she doesn't mind, but hunting, well, it's something that's best done quietly.   I invited her on this hunt and she said sure, but I've got to get my nails done before we go out.   So she got off work, then went and had her nails done, then we headed out.   We met Johnson and his friend David and they were going to sit in one field and we sat in another field hoping hogs would come in.  We got set up and it was starting to get dark and I was wondering how long it was going to take Alma to fall asleep since she had worked an 8 hour day, and had her nails done.    Around 2130 hours I heard something in the next field so I looked through through the night vision scope and saw some hogs working there way to the fence.  Now this is where I thought Alma was going to freak out, but she didn't.   I told her to stay in the jeep and I would work my way to where I thought the hogs were going to cross, and I told her to look through the night vision scope (NVS).   I started to work my way towards the hogs and every 10 steps would stop and look through my binoculars.   I could see the hogs walking around some oak trees along the fence line so I kept going very slowly.   At some point they crossed the fence and went onto the next property, so I never got a shot at them.   We decided to move to the opposite end of where we were at and since the wind was blowing from north to south, the east end of the field would not be too bad.   After moving and getting set up I looked through the NVS and saw another group of hogs getting ready to cross the fence line and by the time I got set up to shoot they too were gone.    The rest of the night was uneventful and we didn't see or hear anything else.   Not even the coyotes were sounding off tonight for some reason.    Alma crashed out and around 2300 I woke her up to let her know I was going to take a walk through the field because I saw something and I wanted to check it out.   After a 45 minute walk going after what I thought was hog, turned out to be a Cow, and it was at the opposite end of the field and, it was having a calf.   So I worked my way back to the jeep and Alma was still crashed out.   We decided to leave around 0230 after she said, "I can't believe I'm sleeping in your jeep when I have a perfectly good comfortable Tempur-pedic mattress at home".   Wow your nails look really nice.

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