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.
For a bowhunter, there’s little better confirmation that one is doing something right than this: It’s already a fine achievement if, on an open hunting ground, with a game population traumatized by every conceivable aspect of wildlife damage control – a population that, because of the rifle-hunting community armed with “technology,” has “neither night nor…
Wonderful weather for landscaping work. During this operation, the Stihl MSA 300 C battery-powered chainsaw earned top marks. Alongside being strong enough (3kWh) to fell trunks even a meter in diameter, its quiet, environmentally friendly operation was the main selling point for me. Here, Dénes, the area’s appointed game manager, is checking on his phone…
Tonight these two hogs ruled the old bowhunting feeder. Of course, I was at my new stand, where there was hardly any movement.
Life is starting to return to the Big Green Wallow . . . Today at 04:36 – while the camera was still in night, black-and-white mode – these fine young pigs arrived and spent more than an hour here, methodically picking up even the weekend’s few handfuls of corn. It’s been a long time since…
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My currently nicely set-up feeder (there are still plans for further development…) hosted the already well-known large sounder again today, after a few days’ break. The NDZ18 BigGreenScum01 camera captured them first, at 4:57, setting off from the patch of forest behind the camera and crossing over at the wallow. Naturally the acorn feeder was…