As all the seasons come to an end, I wanted to take a minute to tell about my first sucessful hunttrade this year.  Through this website I met up with Ricky to trade a waterfowl hunt focusing on sandhill cranes for a night long pig hunt.  We did the crane hunt first, and as my first waterfowling experience I was able to learn alot.  We watched as thousands of cranes put on an air show for us at mile high.  Not sure what they were doing up there, but I guess they did.  I guess somehow they knew that way below there were several shotguns with magnum loads waiting on them drop in.  It was a fun time, and a chance for me to break the mold of never having hunted waterfowl.  The pig hunt came a month and a half later, and ended up being just as fun.  Pulling into the place revealed a large black boar wasnt interested in waiting for us to set up, and was already getting a drink from the waterhole.  Scrambling for a gun, he gave a brief glance and proceeded in getting the heck outta dodge.  After waiting well into the night, we decided to give up on any more pigs, and pull out the predator call.  A little longer, and we found ourselves face to face with a yote, and wishing we had brought shotguns instead of a rifle. It wasnt long before he went the way of the pig.  Though neither of the hunts yielded a trophy of a lifetime, everybody still had a great time.  I anticipate many more hunts with these guys in the future, and who knows, next time we might get the big one.....

The attached pictures were taken less than 7 hours after we abandoned our post at the pig feeder....