The Beast of Ledbetter Creek Still Stalks the Forest

As you can see from the video, there is a big boar in our woods. he typically roams the woods at night. I want to take this pig down. Prior to Saturday, I had already spent eight hours in a stand waiting for him to show up. But to no avail.

Saturday I was in the stand at 8:00 pm. As the woods begin to darken, I noticed that my feeder light was not coming on. I quickly went to the house and got a replacement battery and installed it. However, I could not get the light to stay on continuously. I just switched it to motion detecting mode and hoped that Boss Hog would wander close enough to it to set it off. I do not have a feeder. I just drop some corn on the ground. 

Just after midnight, I heard him off to my right. I waited for him to go to the corn. At 1:00 am he still had not shown up. So I decide to pack it up and head for home. As I was doing so, I heard him moving into the corn. The light never came on. 

I have made a stabilizer light for my bow. It has a green filter on it that I know will not spook raccoons  or possums. But this was the first time I would shine it on a hog. I did not know what its reaction would be, so I decided to come to full draw and then turn the light on, When the light came on, there was the pig, right where I wanted him. He did not seem bothered by the light at all. The only problem was that he was facing me. The least proper shot angle. It became pretty clear to me that he was going to stay that way. I decided that I could not hold my bow at full draw long enough to wait for him to move into another position. So I let off on my bow. Somehow, as I was letting off, I accidentally released the arrow. The arrow buried itself into a log and the hog buried itself in the bushes.

I heard him walking around and making noises to the right of me for about 15 minutes. It sounded like he was angry at being interrupted at his meal. He soon wandered off. 

I waited till after 2:00 am but he never returned. I called it good enough and went home.

When equipment failures meet a lack of skills, the pig walks free.