 What's going on everybody? Welcome to today's video. I'm excited that you're here because I got a little something special for you today. We got a good old-fashioned nighttime Texas hog hunt coming at you with a little twist to it. Got pretty exciting. But before we get into that, I got something I want to show you. It's February right now. Valentine's Day is just around the corner and this is also when a lot of Mondo bass are caught. I got this shirt designed for you guys promoting it this month and I'm sure we'll keep selling it. But this is the I love fat girls shirt. Just in time for V-Day and if you want to catch a Mondo wear this shirt, take a pic, tag me on Instagram. Make sure to give it a sniff. But this is a really cool shirt. Love the way it came out. And who doesn't like catching big old Mondo bass? They're about to get up there in the shallows, start bedding. Those big old girls are gonna start munching here pretty soon as soon as we get all these cold fronts out of the way. In some parts of the country, there are already bunch. That shirt is available right now for you guys. You got card links and links in the description for you go check it out. Help support this channel and this video just might be demonetized. So it sure does help the channel out when you purchase the gear. Appreciate you. So just to set this up for you guys, me and my buddy Matt, we were going out to do a little hog hunting. We'd just come off the lake. You guys saw the last video of doing the stringer of fish, cook those up, fry them up. They're very tasty. And then this was the nighttime hog hunt that followed that. We're hunting with that 6A caliber AR-15 with the thermals on it. And we also had some thermal, just monoscopes, not when monoscopes. Not binoculars, monoculars. So we could literally just scan around in the field. Found a hog. I'll let you guys watch the rest. It's time to go after a hog. We're gonna try it at least. We already got some good meat. Matt's got a buddy over here. It's a dairy farm. It's a dairy farm. Okay. It's a dairy farm. He's got a milk problem. So they got to keep them hogs off of it. A common problem in Texas y'all. Probably hear me talk about it a lot. But a lot of these farmers just have issues with hogs tearing up the land and everything. So I'm always happy to go shoot one. Checking with y'all here in a minute. It's getting dark. Kind of hard to film. Stay tuned though. Could get interesting. All the way back, we're way out here in the middle of a pasture. Surrounded by cows in the middle of the dark. Anyway, I can't wait to see this pig though. We're trying to forge a path. We got a little problem here. We got this hog back in this field and we cannot. We're trying to find a path through this little creek area. I think we're just gonna go for it. I think it's good to go. Just go for it. Yeah. I'll go a little bit to the left. Oh boy. We got a tractor so he can get you out of here. Get a little gas to it. Get it with a little pop right here. There you go. That's strange. Might be get close here. Yeah, I think it's... Better stop on this high spot. Yeah, stop on that high spot. Let's go for it. All right. Time to go look for a pig. We're in the field. We are literally in the field. The hog dropped. Actually, that 6'8", flipped the hog. Flipped it over. I saw blood squirting out. So pretty sure the hog's dead. Got a pistol on me just in case because I think it's a big bore. We're gonna find out. But anyway, it's out here in this field. I think it shot about 75 yards away. We think so. All right. We're good to go. Running in the trees here. Now we know this is getting exciting right here. But let me just hit the pause button for just for a second because it's about to get pretty graphic. Now this is not your Saturday morning hunting and fishing show. Y'all, you know you come here to get the behind the scenes look. The more intimate look at things. Everything doesn't always go perfectly in a hunt. It's not all, you know, smiles, here's the rack and oh yeah, everything's clean. This is one of those situations that you sometimes run into, y'all. I like to call these educational moments. Now if you got little ones around the room, you might want to shield their eyes or just educate them on what's going on here. Let's get back to the video. Here, I'm sharpening his tusks, his teeth with his hoods. He was like, glad we carried the pistol. That's a good size hog. Shot him with that 6'8". Flipped him. I thought he was done. I saw blood squirting out and gave him plenty of time. So we had to go all the way back here in this field and he was still kicking when we walked up. So I'm a little sketchy right there. But I think he's done. So hog down. Bacon time. Alrighty guys, this is it right here. So glad I got the pistol. Walked up on the hog. I'm not really sure where I hit the hog. It flipped over and we all thought it was just dead. Then walked up and it was trying to get up. I had to put a few little pistol rounds in it, but finally it killed over. And anytime you see one of these hogs in the field by themselves like that, it's usually a bore like this. You can see those big cutters right there. And this is just a big bodied hog, man. Look how thick he is up front. Just burly, nasty. And let's go and make some bacon. So we're going to get him cleaned up, taken back to the truck. And man, I want to thank Morgan. Thanks buddy. Yeah man. I just met him tonight. He's one of Matt's buddies. And this is right over here on the lake where I used to guide. Right over here close to it. So over here in East Texas, man. Got big bass, big hogs. Pretty cool. I'm excited about this hog. Steamy pair of testies right there. Still steamy. Still kicking. It's a part of life. It's a circle life right there. That's some cove. These are going to, they're already smelling. A little bloody. A little messy. Pulled out of the tapeworm. That was kind of gross. I can't remember last time. Clean to big. Clean deer. It's gone. Yeah, it's amper free. Sometimes you don't even need a cooler. I'm not even kidding you. This thing smells really sweet. That's nice. It's like a maple, maple type situation. So that's ice down. We're going to carry that back into town. Get some sausage and all sorts of goodies. Nice and packed down with ice. And that's good to go, man. Bacon pastic. Man, that turned out to be a nice Texas bore. And let me tell y'all, I took it to the processor. Got a bunch of great meat getting breakfast sausages, getting Italian sausage, getting bacon wrap. Tenderloins. We're doing pork chops. We're doing everything with that hog. And it smelled like maple syrup. I'm not even kidding you. So looking forward to getting that meat back. It's going to be real good. And that whole day just turned out to be an awesome meat haul. So heck of a day in the outdoors. And the takeaway from this video is if you're going to go nighttime hog on, make sure to either carry your rifle with you when you're approaching the animal. If you're not, make sure to carry a sidearm or have somebody around that does. The cameraman freaked out a little bit on this trip and started running away with the light. And that kind of freaked me out because I didn't have any light on the hog and it was getting up, it was getting its feet under it. I had to basically shoot that hog in the dark and just use the best of my ability to take the hog down. And that is going to wrap up today's video, y'all. If you liked nighttime hog hunting, make sure to let me know in the comments. It's a pretty cool thing to do. I've gotten a lot of offers to go do it. And I thank each and every person that's given me an opportunity to come because it's really fun. 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