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Thought this to be interesting, so throwing the pics up here. Trail camera was grabbing shots the other night, unbeknownst to me, but kind of cool. Camera was toward the end of my lane, pointed back toward my location.

Here the camera must have been tripped by the sudden movement of the boar dropping to the ground. Rewatching the video, he held that position for 2-3 seconds before falling over. The bright illumination is my IR light needed for the NV scope to work in the darkness.




Second pic shows my IR light coming back on a few minutes later, and looking at the black shape in the trees on the left side of the frame shows why. The coons had already given away the approaching sows and I'd verified them easing through the timber with my thermal handheld.



Thinking back, probably 3/4 of the hogs I've killed this spring were busted by coons, which clued me in to their approach. At least those little varmints are earning their keep to some degree.