This Little Piggie

This past weekend, Lee and some of his friends met in East Texas for their second annual hog hunt.  The tournament has some fancy name that they made up and there are prizes involved.  Needless to say, he had an awesome weekend.  This particular story he told was worth sharing.  He was sitting in his stand near dark and he saw a little pig in the distance walking his way.  He said at first it almost looked like Wilbur from Charlotte's Web.  He took the shot from about 250 yards away, saw it drop, and then proceeded to shoot two other hogs. 

It was dark when he was getting down from his stand, so he took his handgun and flashlight.  As he was walking, he was winding his flashlight (the kind without batteries) and he heard the pig (that he thought was dead) making angry grunts in the brush.  Since it was a little pig, he wasn't really concerned. He had radioed for the other guys to help him come find the three pigs in the dark.  His friend James had a spotlight so he and Lee crawled on their hands and knees through a pine thicket in the dark in search of the wounded pig.  After some time passed, they heard the angry pig turn on them and charge them from 5 yards away.  James hollered "THAT IS NOT A LITTLE PIG!!!!" and Lee had to shoot it twice in the head while on his hands and knees. 

Lee didn't win the trophy cup for the largest pig - Glen killed a 248 pound hog, but Lee did win the prize for overall pounds.  He says we will be eating "high on the hog" for sometime.

Lee's little piggie - a Russian Red - weighing in at 177 pounds

The mighty hunters