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Wild-boar hunts worth your timewAs I was visiting with friends at the annual NWTF fakes event a gentleman that looked like he just walked out of Duck Dynasty came walking up with two young ins in tow, Wyatt and Morgan Pat terson.Brian is a wonderful outdoor single parent, keeping those kids *n hunting and fishing. Morgan is 13 years old and is starting into her first sea-WZ- son of hunting. From seeingall the fun her brother and Dad has. she wants to har-w vest her first deer.Wyatt in already a seasoned outdoors man at 11 years old; his hunting resume holds deer, rahhit. juirrel as well as a trophy „ wild boar which you arekfcNNl BAYLESS , , . ‘ . ..j ..about to read about. Wyatt Iribi Nb Star tan SC( a trap-line with thebest of them, harvesting raccoon, muskrat and a opposum or two.The Brazil coon club held a Kids World outdoor event with kind hearted Bob Alexander donating a wild boar hunt to a raffle drawing winner. You guessed it. Wyatt about passed out when his name was read out loud.With a laugh, Brian said we left Indiana to hunt in Indiana. The name of the town in Pennsylvania is Indiana. At the time Wyatt was only six years old. so a 44 caliber semi automatic carbon was a handful.As Brian and Wyatt were getting ready to go hunting, someone yelled “Look at that \ 440 pound wild Russian boar with 3 1 2 inch tusk was cautiously skirting hi^ way around camp with somewhere to goWyatt grabbed is gun and started stalking the boar from camp. He attempted a broadside shot to take out the heart and lungs. With a good placed shot that tough old boar ran into a thicket to hide and decided to head for higher ground with running out into an open field when Wyatt dropped him in his tacks from the second shot.The older hunters were glowing with pride more than Wyatt with all the high fives and hand hakes They ask Wyatt what he was going to do with his wild boar and with a big smile he said “Make some bacon.\ week later Wyatt harvested his first dear w ith his 357 magnum rifle w hile the 11 point buck stood at 50 yards.Wyatt and Morgan were in heaven at the lakes event taking in the bow and arrow range. BB gun range, as well as the simulated turkey range hunt in the woods They actually used calls with a range supervisor going down a path when a gobbler would answer and a balloon on a pulley would appear and they shot it with a 4 10 shotgunBob Weil and Danny Helton was trading turkey hunt stories with taking doubles 1 told them the first lair didn't have a chancelBrian Patterson is an awesome “Oui door Dad we should all take lessons fromhim!Gander Mountain of Terre Haute has a complete store remodel and has doubled their gun inventory, a lot of up to date sporting goods to purchase at their Re-Grand Opening on Sept. Id 21.Contact Kenny Baricss at focbiixlesstgaol.com.
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Terre Haute Tribune Star
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sun, Sep 07, 2014
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