Today I guided Steve Tamburelli from Napa, California. We have been trying to get together for a couple of months now but the weather has been messing up all of our planning. We finally hit the weather right and it looked as if it was going to be a nice day. We met in Maxwell at 5:30 am and headed to the ranch, to get all of the necessary paperwork completed before heading into the hills. We waited until legal shooting hours and began our way into the ranch. We had just went through the second gate and started to climb the first hill when I looked up and spotted a nice group of pigs. They were about 200 yards up hill and looked as if they were making their way down towards us. We drove another 100 yards and got out of the ranger and waited to see what trail they were going to come down. Steve got set up and was watching the trail above us when I looked back down the road and spotted the group coming down the trail behind us. I got Steve repositioned and he took aim. At the crack of the rifle the pig dropped right in the middle of the road, with a perfect shot to the head. We both looked at each other and decided we would rather be lucky then good any day. We were a total of 10 minutes into legal shooting time when he killed his pig. It was a 120 pound boar that I am sure will be great for the table. The hunt was short and sweet, but I sure like to get an easy one once in awhile.
Casey
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