azsagebrush Report post Posted January 9, 2008 After the 12" of snow that Tusayan got on Monday and our air tours of the Grand Canyon were shut down for the day due to weather I left work and grabbed my bow, and quad to took off to see if I could find a pig. After driving on snow packed highway 64 and seeing cars in the bar ditch I was second guessing if I made the right choice of going hunting in these conditions. Once I found a place to park my truck and trailer I took off for a 8 mile ride pushing snow with my quad. There were a few elk and deer tracks crossing the road then I came a across a group of pig tracks. I grabbed my bow and took off following the tracks, after about 300 yards I noticed several pigs under a juniper. I ranged them at 30 yards but there was several limbs in the way of a clear shot. I kept watching the group and here came the first nose and 2 more to follow, one by one all 9 of them started walking down the draw. I waited for them to get out of sight and I got up on a 15 foot ledge so my sent would get out of the area. 7 of them went to the bottom of the drainage and 2 split from the group and followed the drainage, and I was right above the juniper that they were walking to. I waited and sure enough the first one showed up under the juniper below me at 18 yards, I shot him using my 20 yard pin and should have shot him higher than behind the shoulder because the exit came out lower than I wanted due to me being up higher then the pig, I just wasn't thinking. The tracking was on! After about 3/4 of a mile in the 12" of snow seeing the pig several times and a light blood trail I glassed him up bedded under a juniper, I watched him for 10 mins. and he got up and started walking off. I looked at my GPS to see how far I was from my quad, .71 of a mile. I told myself to let him be and take a walk and get my quad, after 30 mins of a walk in the snow I got to my quad and drove to where I last seen the pig walking off. I started following his track very slowly, I picked him up walking just ahead of me. I picked up a tree that I thought he would come walking out from and ranged it at 20 yards, and here he came. He stopped just under the tree and that is when and where he took the fatal shot. Azsagebrush Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MY 3 SONS Report post Posted January 9, 2008 great story,,congrad's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Huntn coues Report post Posted January 9, 2008 Right on! Gotta love chasing pigs around and in the snow to boot. Congratulations. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cramerhunts Report post Posted January 9, 2008 Sweet! Gotta love a day away from work that you get to spend hunting. Looks aweful cold though. Phil Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HBU Report post Posted January 9, 2008 Great job, that snow may be a pain in th a$$ but it sure comes in handy when your tracking. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues Sniper Report post Posted January 9, 2008 ...that snow may be a pain in th a$$...Blasphemy!!! Congrats on the pig AZsage. Nice work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rabbit Report post Posted January 9, 2008 Nice way to spend the day off; better than shoveling the driveway. Did you not get a peccary in the snow last year also? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azsagebrush Report post Posted January 10, 2008 Nice way to spend the day off; better than shoveling the driveway. Did you not get a peccary in the snow last year also? Red Rabbit, I did get one last year here near the house in the snow. It was such a blast I had to try it again this year. Azsagebrush Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trophymaster Report post Posted January 10, 2008 thata kid!! Congrats monty looks like fun, but I will stick to the warm weather pig hunting!! I will admit tracking those little suckers in the snow is blast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kcw Report post Posted January 10, 2008 great pictures and nice pig Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
willhunt4coues Report post Posted January 10, 2008 CONGRATS ON A NICE PIG. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Traveler Report post Posted January 19, 2008 You are snowmeister! Congrats! Hope you are enjoying the woods to yourself these days. Later Dan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
