Well it has been quite the last few days… I took the weekend off to spend some extra time in the woods with the family, and it was great. While Amy and Will went to Walmart, Bo and I took my cousins 1959 Toyota Landcruiser out to the Jericho tract to check the camera and reset the trap. We also spent a good bit of time looking for “indian rocks” (we found 3 nice bird points) and following the big, monster hog tracks to see where they went. Of course they went right in to the thick cypress bay were they spend their day, and Bo thought we should go in after them…

We then came back to find that Amy had managed to get our van home from the store even though one tire had busted a steel belt. So luckily they had not gotten stranded on the side of the road, but it looks like a new set of tires will be needed ASAP… Just a few hundred dollars that we really did not want to spend on our kids anyway. LOL

Sunday, we decided that the whole family should be in on the hog trap/trailcam checking fun, so we all loaded up in to the ancient jeep for the couple of mile ride. Sure enough, we found that the trap’s corn had not been touched, but the camera’s corn had been cleaned up. That would mean just one thing – that something would be in there on Monday. So we looked around for arrowheads for an hour (found one bird point), but did not stay too long since we had already hit the Blount Place. There Amy had found a broken, but really nice spear point.

We then headed back to the house where we spent the rest of the afternoon letting the kids ride around the yard in the used Jeep that my mom bought them at a garage sale. They absolutely love cruising around the yard in it, and they don’t seem to even care that it is HOT BARBIE PINK! (That just goes to show that boys aversion to that color is learned) But I think we are going to pick up a couple of cans of spray paint for a custom camo paint job this week… Then they will think it is REALLY COOL.

Monday then rolled around, and I knew one would be in the trap, so Bo and I ran out their yesterday afternoon, and sure enough there was a 100 pound sow napping in the cage. My Rugar .45 made that nap permanent, and Bo and I loaded her up in the trunk of my toyota corolla since the landcruiser was out of gas. We then ran her back to the house for a quick cleaning.

If you are keeping track, that is two sows now out of the herd! When they eat A LOT of corn at $6 a bushel, every one taken out helps. And by killing the sows, it really means that you are taking out a bunch of potential hogs later on. So while I love trapping/killing any hog, catching the sows actually does more good than taking a boar out.

I have also included a couple of new trailcam shots in this post. Nothing too crazy, just a shot of one of the bigger sows that I am hoping to catch, some hungry birds caught mid-flight, and two coons displaying dominance/submission over who gets the corn… you just never know what will turn up on that thing!

I am now headed out to get some tires on our van, then I have to put a radiator in my Toyota. And if I have time, I will check the trap again. So you see I have a busy day ahead of me, but I should be back tomorrow with another update on our trapping program… I just have one more week before I have to pull the corn up due to the turkey season laws, so I am trying hard to get a few more before then… Who needs Pork?

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