Big hogs killed in Montgomery County

Frog gigging trip turns to hog hunt

Landon Hicks and Daniel Threadgill killed two big hogs during a frog-gigging adventure in Montgomery County, NC.

“We were hunting for frogs originally, but we’ve seen two hogs out in a corn field before. So we brought a gun just in case we saw them while we were out,” said Hicks. “After hunting frogs for 2 or 3 hours, we decided to ride by the field we last saw them in, before heading to the next spot to gig.”

Threadgill was checking the field with a handheld thermal as they rode by.

“He saw the hogs standing right at the road at the edge of the field,” said Hicks. “So we pulled over on the side of the road a little ways up, and walked down with the gun.”

At that point, they didn’t see the hogs, and figured the animals had detected them and ran off.

Another try

“So we walked back to the car and drove by again, just in case they came back out,” he said.

This time, the hogs were in the field right next to the one they’d originally been in.

“So they didn’t run off like we thought they’d done,” he said. “We pulled over again and crept our way to them.”

And this time, the hogs were still there.

“Daniel handed me the gun after putting it on the tripod,” he said. “There were two of them, and I shot one in the neck. She rolled.”

Hicks handed the gun to Threadgill to get a shot at the second hog.

“He shot his hog twice while it was on the run,” he said. “The first shot hit it right in the ham, but it wasn’t enough to lay her down. So she ran into the woods.”

Something in the creek

Hicks looked back at the first hog to make sure it was still down. It wasn’t.

“She had gotten up and made her way to the other field,” he said. “So we ran over there and I shot her again. The scope cut out and wouldn’t come back on, so I had to get right up to her to put her down.”

The two then went looking for Threadgill’s hog. They found evidence the hog had run into the woods. They followed, and after looking for about an hour, Threadgill spotted the hog in a creek.

“Daniel was using the handheld thermal and saw something big sitting in the middle of the creek. I thought it was as rock, but Daniel didn’t think so. He got closer for a better look, and he saw it was the hog, laying down in the middle of the creek,” he said. “But the scope still wasn’t working, so he had to get right up to it and finally put her down.”

Hicks said it was a fun night, and that Threadgill deserves credit for them getting both hogs.

“A lot of credit goes to him, because we wouldn’t have even seen those hogs if he didn’t have the idea to go looking for them,” he said.