 We're at the least strong I was on my way to set up a little camp We're gonna be doing some bushcraft camping out here on the river. I was really looking forward to that got the ATV Loaded down with some supplies, and I was gonna go down there set up camp and on my way. I Ran into some hogs got the pew pew out And I went and got set up on a nice hill about a hundred yards away And I got attacked by huge Texas-sized fire ants, so Didn't work out so good. Then I got up really close to them like 30 yards. They are thick In some nasty brush on this big hill. We call this booby hill right here There are hogs everywhere. There's so many in fact that there's a Scheduled helicopter hunt here this weekend to help control the population of these hogs What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to put a stock on these hogs just pause on setting up the camp And see if we can send a few rounds on the old piggies out here So I'm gonna kind of work my way around this hill keeping the wind In my face and these pigs I got really close. So they didn't even know I was there So I think they're gonna come out. There's an open area out past this brush Here and you know 30 minutes to an hour. So I think that'd be pretty exciting I was about to get up there in that brush. I was like, yeah I better go back and get my cameras first in case something really crazy exciting happens So we're gonna strap on the camera My scope is actually a camera as well. So we should be able to to film it. All right Let's do a little bacon stocking. Well, this was not how I was expecting the day to go I was literally coming in to set up camp And I stopped the ATV because I thought man Those kind of look like hogs, but they might be cows And then I started just looking Realized they were hogs and then about an hour later made a stock all the way up the hill to get around the wind and Man, I was close. I was probably like 60 70 yards And they weren't able to win me But he got up one more time And I just I had to dome him pigs One of the toughest animals we have Here in Texas Now the deer season's over It's pretty much just free rain on the hogs out here. We got turkey season coming up and we're gonna do some shed hunting and stuff like that, but You know, we didn't want to disturb our our deer hunting too much, but Man, these hogs are just overrunning this place. It's crazy. Don't see any blood at this point You know not watching the video back. I'm not sure You know, even if I hit that big bore like that on the run with a 556 He's not going down So he'll just have a a battle wound But I just want to show you guys How thick the brush is here in Texas So there's our hog the tusks on that baby Just burled up, wristled back. That's where they get that name razor back It's just this razor Coming down off that guy Look at his battle scars You can see right there right there Sorry, he's been fighting with other hogs And their skin is so tough on their shoulder that I've almost never Expired a hog on one shot if it's not a really good head shot But this brush right here They make little tunnels all through this stuff. They're so low to the ground they can run through it and Little tip of your hog hunting. You always want to be squatting down And stuff like this because they can see you here above at this angle You can't see anything on the ground. I could see a lot better appearing at that level. So You know, I had hogs around me behind me growling to the side I could hear them and they just will sit there if you look really close. Sometimes you'll see their ears twitch But they just kind of lay down and they can be really sneaky can almost walk up on them But I can guarantee you they will smell you a long ways away if your wind is not right. So They may not be able to see but dag them they can smell they got a schnooter. The other thing we got to worry about right now right now Geez where'd that come from? Unchose The other thing we got to worry about right now is rattlesnakes. Oh rattlesnakes the size of Texas Or out here and it just started warming up. We came off that freezing streak and now it's warming up So I am not gonna be camping on the ground if there's one thing I'm more scared of than a mountain lion So rattlesnake crawling into my sleeping bag on the ground, you know a nice warm cozy sleeping bag next to you That just does not sound good. So I'm really not sure what I'm gonna do tonight Anyway piggy down and that's the first one With my new optic little close-up of the scope night vision Capable it's got the IR on it. You can use it during the day Obviously as well and shout out to brace built for custom engraving my lower right there pretty sweet. Thanks guys this Is a Texas size Boar it's probably up there, you know around 150 or so and we commonly get hogs over 200 pounds here in Texas Gotta watch my back and like I said, there's a helicopter hunt scheduled this weekend. I'm not on it, but They survey the land with helicopters Every once in a while a few times a year and they get an estimate of how many hogs are out here and It's explosive. It doesn't hurt anything me taking out a hog or two as I tried But ended up just getting the one first time using that caliber hog hunting as well I definitely recommend a higher caliber 308 if you can six eight. It's really good, too I just got the 556 just You know as is a general general use not gonna throw this one on the barbecue grill pretty gnarly the last big bore we killed out here had a lot of worms in it and stuff and OSG is not down with that program. Just taking a bore out as a like a management Reason the helicopter is gonna take a bunch more out this weekend Anyways, just keep the population under control and I think the coyotes will be very much happy with old snooter here Now that we've had some hog hunting action I want to show you guys what I originally Came out here to do for this river and do some bushcraft down there There's been a lot of arrowheads found down here. There are there's caves and stuff like that And it just haven't explored it on foot, you know during hunting season during deer season I'm always chasing the deer. I'm gonna take you guys through here right now. So you can kind of get an idea of Where I'm gonna be camping if you look up there That's the canyon. So I've slept on top of that canyon before There's holes and caves. I know that that mark where mountain goat is living out here somewhere, too fish parts of the Colorado River Many times and I've also fished lakes that are along the Colorado River and there are bass in here Somewhere and one of these pools there are bass. So during turkey season definitely gonna bring the kayak down and do some exploring down here, but Isn't this beautiful? I Mean, this is like the perfect spot to camp. I've heard stories that there is a mountain lion cave Along this bank somewhere. It's a little bit creepy Knowing what is living down here, but also just beautiful and I'm excited to set up the bushcraft camp around here And my goal is To set it up where I can just continue to come down here and maybe even hunt out of that camp And oh, I just I just saw Something jumping in there. Oh, I see a tail. I see a tail. Oh my gosh. I see tail kicks What is going on here? What is going on? There are fish. I don't know if you guys can see I Got out I got to get out the big ones fish are kicking in this current Don't exactly know what species that is down there. You can see their tails Kicking in the current. I know there's carp in here. I've seen those like maybe some buffalo carp. It could be that It could be catfish. I Really doubt there's trout. I don't know we're gonna explore that though Might even be able to just catch one like gig one up throw it on the fire Maybe I don't know there's a lot of possibilities that we're gonna be exploring here on the next video So you know what to do? Subscribe right here to the channel and y'all let let me remind you we are hitting a million this year Smash it subscribe and smash the like button for outdoor greatness y'all and I'll see you back here in the woods God bless you. See you soon