I haven't seen hogs in this area since July 2021 but some deer hunters reported a local sounder in mid December. Deer season ended here about the first of January 2022 and the trap went up. Scout photos indicate 11 hogs total, got nine with the trap.

Several days after the trap catch I caught up with a sow that didn't care for the trap... Found her rooting in a mud hole, (M&P-10 (.308 Win) and the Trijicon IR Hunter II). I'm now at 10 of 11 for this sounder with just a very wary boar left alive.

One of the scouting images showing the remaining boar... seems a large one. The lactating sow didn't care much to have her piglets around when the boar was present it seemed.

Nice results.

Looks like a few more left yet.

Good pictures,, thanks for sharing.

George

Good job. How do you like the S&W in 308? Be Well, Packy.

Packy:

It is an M&P 10 Sport... no frills.
Pros:
Decent price.
308 Win vice 5.56 chambered so better terminal ballistics even for those not-so-good well placed running hog(s) shot(s).

Cons:
Gas block is NOT pinned and the front sling swivel is on that block. I use a two-point sling and carry across the front of my body BUT on this M&P10 I've twice rotated the gas block enough to cause gas flow stoppage. I now have the sling tied around the barrel to prevent such.
Simple handguard on this rifle, I'd much prefer a nice slotted foreend.

It is a good rifle, I like it for its intended purpose. I have had zero failure to function issues with it other than that gas block/sling affair.

I have several other AR-10, they're all purpose bought and setup accordingly. (Sig Sauer and Savage).

My folk went out in a helicopter a couple of weeks ago, 317 hogs bit the dust, or mud in this case. I could hardly believe so many in such a restricted area. I shudder yo imagine the total numbers these represent.

Cowboy

That is a pile of hogs for what I believe you offer as one night of shooting.
Many years back I used to travel to the Knox City, TX area and shoot hogs via foot, before thermal was commonplace. We shot a few but saw many, many more.

In this area, when I started shooting for a few local farmers there were some, by local standards, large(ish) sounders but the damage they caused was tremendous. I've now trapped and shot or just stalked/ambushed and shot 243 of them (179 in 2019, 43 in 2020, 11 in 2021 and now 10 this year)... seems a paltry count by comparison to your numbers.

Here is a sounder from early 2019 in this area.

Was 2 nights in vicinity of Little Brazos River.
I counted 45 in a sounder one evening while out deer hunting. Thy are tearing up pastures something awful.

The lone boar is still visiting, wary devil for sure. I spent a about 3.5 hours Thursday night waiting on him to enter a field, he showed up very near midnight but traveled so quickly and deliberately that I couldn't stalk up close enough to get a high probability kill shot before he melted back into the heavy brush.