Last week The Red Oak Ranch saw a “rootin’, tootin’” time! The men were here cutting hay and The Colonel had taken “Ole Blue” out to look around and see how they were doing. As he was sitting in the truck, the hay cutter disturbed a boar hog that started running towards where The Colonel was. The boar must have weighed 300 or more pounds but was running fast. The Colonel put “Ole Blue” in gear just as the boar popped out of the Hay Meadow close to the Sweet Gum Grove.
Off they went on a mad race, “Ole Blue” and Boar Hog. “Ole Blue” has a heavy cattle guard on the front and The Colonel was going to pop him with it if he caught up to it. For some reason, The Colonel had taken his gun out of his holster and left it in the other truck. He never lays his gun down but this time he did. So, this was going to be a race of truck against hog and they were running neck and neck when The Colonel realized he had left his gun in the other truck. So, now The Colonel was determined to pop the hog with his truck. He noticed he had caught up to the boar and could have shot him just by leaning out the window.
The boar turned and was going through the Sweet Gum Grove just as “Ole Blue” turned and came out on the other side of the Grove about the same time as the boar came through it. The boar was still running fast even over the levees and “Ole Blue” actually sailed over a levy as The Colonel caught up to him again. Suddenly, The Colonel realized if he hit the boar with the truck the hog would cause a lot of damage to “Ole Blue” because the cattle guard was higher than the boar and would not have been the part that would hit it. So, The Colonel backed off, made a mental note to himself NEVER to leave his gun in another truck. “Ole Blue” is an old truck that can run with the best of them, and it is a legend at The Red Oak Ranch!
