Invited my friend out to Howell Woods to hunt the weekend (Thu - Sat). Dad and I always like to try to find a good stand for friends and family when they come to hunt. After two days of seeing nothing, my friend decided he needed a change of scenery. Collectively people told him it was a bad idea and he should stay put but to no avail. We moved him to another stand for the final night and my dad sat in the stand he had occupied for the first two days.
Wouldn't you know it, seven pigs came in to the stand and my dad shot a 95 pounder. And wouldn't you know my friend got shut out. I might have really let him have it, but the fact is that I have done that myself a number of times and so have most of the people that hunt at Howell Woods.
Pigs are much different than deer. They can avoid a stand for weeks or months and then when they decide they want to start going to a stand they do so stubbornly. With pigs it is real important to know how they are trending as that will greatly increase your overall success. With deer, you can kill a deer just about anywhere as they tend to stay spread out and pick through the woods. Pigs seem to both travel more (we have pictures of the same group of pigs 3 miles apart in the same evening) and travel more focused. If you are in the current travel path, the pigs are coming, just a matter if they make it there before it is time to call it a hunt.
So if you have a stand the pigs are frequenting, keep with it, don't give up. It doesn't even matter if you shot one or more of the pigs. Amazingly the same group of pigs might come back the next night.
Oh yeah ... another shot at sausage now with this new pig.
Patience is not my best virtue
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