I finally got "on camera" that boar I once, on a summer night, in the early morning hours, had already drawn my bow on.
I didn’t take the shot, because it had already started heading back toward the forest from the wallow, and the aiming point wasn’t entirely clear in the barely-breaking light.
A lively, truly eventful, freezing night at the feeder. My guests included regulars, but newcomers arrived as well. For now I’m only watching the camera images, but if the movement becomes regular, I’ll commit myself to a full night on the stand. The Zeiss camera in the field measured -5°C, while the Spypoint cameras measured…
" Give the game a chance!" An article worth sharing: From the Nimród Hunting Magazine A Word of Hunting Caution Author Csaba Varga Date 22.02.2026 https://nimrod.hu/hirek/vadaszi?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHnSZZ8ftKt4An0Stl-ryfSQbjsLHwjykLboNADIcDUpAEf31_pBQ5qT6LGTJ_aem_2PBpuyNp9aT7uA1RWBMDRg https://nimrod.hu/hirek/vadaszi
The large sounder living in the area visited the clearing feeder again, after many days. Even on uneventful days, the feeder kept dispensing around 5 kg of corn kernels daily, spreading them nice and evenly over the feeder’s area. This steadily increasing amount of corn, sitting on the ground getting a bit rained on, softening,…
These frosty mornings lately have been drawing the local wildlife to the scattered corn. Because of their fast metabolism, the roe deer set aside their caution and are now regularly visiting this secluded, undisturbed little feeder even during the day.
Well, I’ve been preparing for such mysterious, hermit-like sows for a long time now. For a chance encounter like this, I’m willing to spend the night out from 4 in the afternoon until 7-8 in the morning, 8 meters up, on a Summit Viper PRO SD stand barely larger than half a square meter, fixed…
Tonight these two hogs ruled the old bowhunting feeder. Of course, I was at my new stand, where there was hardly any movement.