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I'd posted a pix of this guy a couple weeks ago IIRC.....  Anywho, Went to my lease last Monday evening. Got there late and the wind was blowing about 30 MPH. It was 20 degree and the wind about the same Tuesday morning. I did not figure that the critters would be moving so I went and set out several snares. Only shot one small pig between Monday and Friday evening, the last time I sat out. However, Friday morning my bud and I found this guy in the snare. Caught him around the snout. Needless to say, he was not a happy camper when we walked up on him. My bud had a 44 mag carbine and I had my Winchester 1300 Defender pump loaded with 8 rounds of 3" 000 buckshot. About five seconds after we saw him emerge from the bushes and charge (I use a 10' leader on the snare) we both started wailing on the beast. I put three rounds of buckshot in his neck and head, and my bud put 4 rounds of 44 mag in him before he keeled over. I then had Kyle put two more rounds in chest between his front legs. I still waited about 5 minutes till he was expired before I walked up. Talk about a dog-killin SOB. This is one of the biggest hoglets I've taken in the hill country!      ya! GWB | ||
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Nice one! That is a big boy for sure. | |||
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Nice pig for anywhere! | |||
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Good Job.   Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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About time you guys got this one. where's the scales though?? George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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Was that big boy rank, Geeduya? Nice to get him out of the pool. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Don't have a clue. Thought I had a scale in camp. We got broke into a while back and a lot of stuff was taken that has not been replaced. I normally do not weigh critters. I did want to weigh this one. I figure he was between 225 and 250 lbs, perhaps more. IMHO, the weight on hoglets is grossly overestimated most of the time. I try not to be guilty of that. I do know that with the shape my back is in, it took both Kyle and I to roll him over. We drug him a hundred yards or so with a four-wheeler to get him to the truck. Kyle is a hearty 35 year old that weighs near 250 lbs. He stood in the back of the pick-up and pulled the front end up with a strapusing arm and shoulder strength plus ballast, while I tackled the back end. It was questionable for a few seconds who was gonna get loaded or who was coming out of the truck bed. Luckily we prevailed. He may not be the biggest I ever took, but he was in the top 5, no doubt. Here is one that had his head still on the ground when the scale topped out at 275 lbs. My son and I used a trailer and a winch to load him.  This one weighed in at 275 lbs., IIRC  We weighed this one at 315 lbs.  I'll just have to be content to say he was a "pretty good pig". ya! GWB | |||
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just fer schitz n' giggles, here are two more that I would not mind perforating. They just showed up at my buds stand about 1/2 mile behind the camp. Both are FUGLY   ya! GWB | |||
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Nice pig, always good to see dead hogs. "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..." Hosea 8:7 | |||
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Big piggy man! The biggest one we have gotten on my place is 185lbs........ . | |||
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Sure are! I doubt your choice of bullet will care about their looks...….. Doug Wilhelmi NRA Life Member | |||
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They look like fine bullet testing media. thanks, enjoy your posts and pictures. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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Nice porker GW Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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