Central California Boar Hunt

2nd hog hunt in the books. This time we used a spot and stalk method out of a truck contrary to hunting out of blinds in Texas.
Other than our strategy there were lots of parallels between the two hunts ranging from boar behavior to the rolling hills.
Boar are nocturnal feeders. During the day, they bed up in brush to avoid the heat and seemingly disappear from the landscape. There's a very small window in the morning around sunrise and the hour after sunset to catch the hogs coming and going from the barley fields they graze on in darkness.
We woke up at 4:30 the first morning and were out glassing from the highest ridge by first light. We decided my dad would go first. After working down one of the ridges we got on top of a group of 20 hogs, eventually cutting them off at the top where my dad landed a great shot and downed one (6&7).
That afternoon I was up to bat. It was slow finding them but I got a shot opportunity on a boar about 175 yards out on the ridge over. I took the shot and missed... just a hair under its front quarter. A big confidence killer but I knew I was a bit tense pulling the trigger and likely made a slight error.
Same program the next morning. We spotted about 5 Hogs a ridge over and decided to hike down into the valley and sneak up on a nearby hill to get a shot. I made it to a prone shooting position on the ridge without the hogs heading or winding us. I got a shot off and had a decent hit. To our surprise they came running at us. I chambered another and got another shot off on the pig hitting it about an inch from my initial shot. It made it down into the canyon and fell over. Epic experience and lots of important lessons!
We quartered them up back at camp, sausage inbound.
Our guide Hunter was an expert and the @oakstone_outfitters experience was a blast.
Massive respect for @jlynch_6 for doing what we did with a bow in the spring