Boar hunters find fresh footprints north of Lake Cachuma witnessed in Santa Barbara County, California

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I was hunting with a friend for wild boar in the Los Padres National Forest near Lake Cachuma, Ca. The lake runs on sort of an angle from west/northwest to east/southeast. Just above the lake when travelling north on hwy 154 is an access road leading into the forest to a point near the northwest end of the lake (probably about 2 1/2 miles from the lake). Near that point and about 3/4 to one mile away from the ranger station located there, my friend and I hunted along the west side of the road. We were both armed with high powered rifles (I had a 300 H&H Magnum with 200 grain roundnose bullets). This is rough country! We were sitting on a hillside looking down the hill when we noticed what seemed to be movement. After about 1/2 hr or so, and not seeing any more movement, we decided to go and investigate what the movement had been below us on the hillside. We crossed the trail which led into the area and went further down the hill toward the ranger station which was about 3/4 mile low...