On the way home from our vacation four days later, I asked my daughter what the highlight of the trip was for her. The take home lesson from this was that through the whole chase, with heat, sweat, leg scratches, and frustration growing, my daughter exhibited a calm safe handleing of the firearm and when she finally got the chance, took the correct shot and killed her second boar.
For the next hour, maybe hour and a half, we tried for this hog, but every time we got close either a dog would be in the way or the hog would run and not offer a good shot. Now, the hounds are still chasing the other pig so after pictures we got after it. 243 they had let her use and she had her first big animal on the buggy. As we got closer the hog ran out with the hounds in chase, but my daughter and the guide spotted another bigger boar in the thicket. The second hog ran into a brush thicket as soon as we got there which wa actually a lucky thing. It took about another half hour in the mid 90 degree sun before the hounds gave chase to another hog, but the action continued then for almost two hours. We came up t this one and the guide said it was smallish and we'd pass. We rode in the swamp buggy with our guide and hounds onto the hunting property and it wasn't long before we heard the distinctive sound of barking hounds baying a squealing pig. Again it was a private tour, just as promised, worth the price for the experience, but definately the calm before the storm, so to speak, cause the hog hunt was coming up next.
Then we went for an hour air boat ride looking for wild gators and other critters in the swamp. Our guide was very patient with her and kept her smiling with a bent fishing rod much of the time. That will be my excuse for the little girl out-fishing me. I did catch the first bass, but it wasn't long til my daughter got the hang of setting the hook harder than she was used to and she kept me busy with the camera. No worries, stuff happens and we werre still the only ones on the boat just as promised. We own a pontoon boat and had booked the bass boat just for a different experience, but the bass boats took some mechanical hits a few days before on the busy Memorial Day weekend. We began our day bass fishing with Captain John who had his pontoon boat ready to go. Also, she's caught perch and trout, but large mouth bass are a different story. We are from Montana and no strangers to the wilds, my daughter being on many big game kills with me and an experienced bobcat and mountain lion houndgirl, but she can't shoot anything much bigger than ground squirrels/prairie dogs until she's 12. We scheduled the trip in the middle of 8 days at Disney. My 11 year old daughter and I booked the "Cousin Lisa's Glades in a Day" trip with Ron's Guide Service and for our purposes it was a great time. Anyone who duck hunts knows how bad this hunt really was. I left both cell and email, and never heard back. Worst of all, I wrote to management afterward, explaining everything. Ultimately, no birds and one shell burned between 3 people. We were still running the outboards at legal shoot time, with no spot picked out and no dekes in the water. Boat problems in the way out to our spot, so we sat and waited for 30 minutes on a boat that wasn't running well, and this was after the guides starting us late. If you hunt, you know ducks don't like shiny anything, much less a 20' bass boat with no cover! Guides were both nice to talk to, but ours was a bass fishing captain who said he was just "helping out" and the guide in the other boat said he had never personally even shot a duck. The "duck boat" I was in was a shiny red and silver bass boat, with not a scrap of cover in it! Not even palms to lay on the deck. Ultimately, they split our group up, and the hunt I planned to do with my dad and brother-in-law clearly wasn't going to happen. We waited 30 minutes because some other group was late that had nothing to do with our hunt or boat. When we arrived at 5:00am, the guides weren't ready.
#Mountain duck guide service full#
Water level is up, so we would be hunting from a duck boat with full blind. Booking was for 3 to hunt together on Lake O. I use quotes because I later found out our guide wasn't even a guide with Ron, but that they just sub-contracted our hunt out. We went out with "Ron's Guide Service" on opening day of 2013-2014 duck season. This was the worst hunt I've even hired, and I do 4-6 guided hunts a year (in addition to my own). Late review from last season, but felt it was necessary to write.
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