The Outdoors on borrowed time

Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Talk about being lucky!!!

Usually when I go hunting I normally load my rifle once the gate closes behind me because you never know where or when a pig or coyote will show up.   On this day that wasn't the case, as the gate closed I continued on without loading my rifle.   It's 0400 as I drove down the caliche road stopping every now and then looking through the night vision scope checking for hogs.   At one point I could see hogs tearing up the field and since I had not loaded my rifle and had to in a hurry.    Once it was loaded I had to mount the red flashlight on top of the scope, while it was dark which is not easy.

Once everything was ready I eased up further with just my parking lights on, looking for the pigs.    Then I saw them, and they were tearing up the ground next to the fence line and they were getting ready to cross the road.    I moved up a little more and I turned on the red light and looking through the scope I picked one out next to the fence and as I was getting ready to pull the trigger the seatbelt warning system in my truck went off and it was loud.   Luckily for me it was real windy and the wind was blowing from them to me and once I connected the seatbelt and the alarmed stopped I looked through the scope and they were still feeding along the fence line.   I picked one out and pulled the trigger and it dropped and of course the others ran off.  

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