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BYU legend Ty Detmer on his love of hunting, his time coaching at BYU and what the future may hold

Edward A. Ornelas, For the Deseret News

Ty Detmer (left) and Anthony Johnson, from Saratoga Springs, Utah, walk to a wild pig Johnson shot on Detmer's T14 Ranch Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, near Freer, Texas.

FREER, Texas — The moment of truth arrives for Anthony Johnson. He’ll get just one shot, a trigger pull that he has waited hours to take while sitting perched in a hunting blind with BYU legend Ty Detmer on his T14 Ranch in South Texas.

With shadows creeping across the patches of purple sage and mesquite trees, a pack of coyotes howls in the approaching sunset.