6-27-11

Today I guided Bryan Templeton and his son James on a pig hunt. We met in Colusa at 3:45 AM and headed up to the ranch. After completing the paperwork we hopped on the ranger and headed up the hill. We went to one of my favorite vantage points and got set up to begin glassing. Legal shooting light came and went and we had not seen any movement so we just sat tight as I figured the pigs were just taking their sweet time leaving the wheat fields this morning. At 6:45 we heard a pig squeal South East of our location so we switched our focus to that ridge and within minutes spotted a group of 10 pigs working their way down the ridge. At the angle they were headed it looked as if we could get in front of them before they got into the brush, so off we went. We worked our way down the hill and got set up along the trail that I figured they would be coming down. Within minutes we could hear them moving our direction and soon enough they were out in the wide open and coming straight for us. I looked over the pigs and picked out the biggest boar in the group and Bryan got on him and ready to shoot. As the big boar stepped out into the opening in front of us at 33 yards, Bryan squeezed off the shot and the boar dropped in his tracks. It was the perfect ambush and Bryan had a 250 pound boar down, that headed straight for the taxidermist as soon as we got back to town. It was a great hunt and I am already looking forward to the next hunt.

Andy