Look at how few posts we are getting—what’s up?

I have noticed the same thing but just didn’t mention it.

Question should be "where are the pigs?" I am watching my feeder cams and sitting but no pigs! A few show up but very erratic and they do not appear to be the same ones! If things go well tomorrow I will probably sit awhile.

No problem with pigs here locally, but a problem with me not being able to hit the broad side of a barn (check out my latest post in the New year New Gun thread)

I will be out again Wednesday night but with my M70. AR10 and thermal temporarily retired.

Hog shortage here so little to report.

There have been two hogs on the property since Christmas, and both were boars. I have no proof, but I wonder if Sid Miller may have enticed some area farmers to put out his non-FDA-approved poisons. Either that or they're doing something on their own. I've noticed some odd things over the past three or so years, including 2022 when most of the does either didn't conceive or else didn't carry the fawns to term.

Anyway, on the latest hog, I had had no intentions of checking outside that night as I had a bad flare-up with the chronic colitis and was feeling pretty weak. But when our little furbaby decided he needed to potty once more before calling it a night, I opened the door and got the unmistakable whiff of a boar.

Since I haven’t seen a hog here for months, I knew I needed to check things out and try and capitalize on the rare opportunity. I grabbed the Van Horn .270x.225 Contender since it had a shooting light on it, but it turns out it was not needed as there was ample moonlight for the Zeiss V6 2-12x50.

The hog was only about 130 yards from my shooting rest and ever-so-slightly quartering to me. I wasted no time putting the tiny red dot of the #60 reticle towards the front of the shoulder and touched off a round.

The 95 grain Barnes TTSX, which was designed for the 6.8 SPC and leaves the muzzle of my barrel at 2920 fps, flew true and dropped the boar in his tracks. The bullet hit where I hoped, penetrating the thick shield, breaking the shoulder bone, wrecking the lungs, passing through the edge of the opposite shoulder, breaking a rib and then lodging in the hide and very nearly exiting.

Impact speed should have been about 2550 fps. It lost a couple petals but still weighed 78.4 grains. The widest point measured .536”. Had it retained the petals, the width would have approached 0.7”.






Below is the December boar and the Hornady 110 grain CX that I recovered from it. The load from the .308 WCF moves it along at a bit over 3200 fps. This hog, too, dropped in its tracks without any CNS impact.

That bullet is designed for sedate .300 BO speeds and virtually turns itself inside-out at .308 velocities. But being a mono, it retains ample mass to result in devastating terminal performance.

Well just showed up myself. I have noticed a decline in feral hogs in my area. So have been fishing and dodging the rain.

Just checked the camera at the feeder and had a pic of a medium sized one and 13 piglets on camera.
I also noticed that only one of the pair of boars that have been in during daylight is back--so maybe I didn't miss last week?

Headed back out tomorrow.

Me, I have been waiting on a posting.

George

me, i have been waiting on a posting.
ng.

George

WELL, wind cancelled last night’s hunt, and rain tonight. Maybe tomorrow night!

I have a lot of hogs but not much time .

Lucky you. I got lotsa time and no hogs. Hah.
Get dem hogs Dusty, Bobby, etc.
CB

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Originally posted by larryshores:
I have a lot of hogs but not much time .

Same here, I need to get to my lease to smack a few, but pesky work keeps getting in the way.

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Originally posted by dustoffer:
Look at how few posts we are getting—what’s up?

If I had a place to shoot pigs you would see more photos from me. half the people I know who have properties cry about a pig issue, yet they will not let you hunt on their land....

They might be kind of like me. On our 210 acres in East TX. we have quite a few hogs. They have torn up some places pretty bad as well. But with us not living on the ranch just yet and 220 miles away it is really tough and maybe foolish to just give the gate combination to just anyone that wants to come in and shoot hogs.

funny you say that: I would absolutely love to come and shoot a pig but like you, people (even friends of mine who have property) are reluctant to let me come on land to hunt and shoot hogs. I don't understand that one...

After we sell our home here in town and actually move to the ranch I might be inclined to let someone come out and shoot a hog if they want to. But I will be with them. I see them quite often in the daytime. Mostly sows with young ones going 15-35 lbs. In 28 years I remember seeing two trophy boars. I shoot the sows mostly while most people want a boar. I tell the females are the ones that have babies.

As to letting people come out to hunt, here are a few examples of why I generally won't do that. When I was a kid, my Dad allowed some co-workers to hunt doves. He was apprehensive about saying yes and in fact told them "no" several times before, but at some point, he relented. They hunted a Saturday evening. There were lots of shots, but I have no idea if they got any doves because they left without stopping by the house.

The next morning, we woke up to our cattle devouring a field of grazer that in a couple days was supposed to be cut/baled and serve and their primary feed for the winter months. Much of the field had been trampled. Those "hunters" decided to have fun and shoot up the glass insulators on the back side of that field. One of the blasts was from close enough that it actually cut the wire. Thankfully, it had been a rainy summer, and the grass was quite green. Otherwise, with electric fence wire dangling, the entire place could have burned.

There was also litter left behind, including beer bottles thrown along the creek.

OK, fast forward to the early 90s: I had just arrived at work when my wife called me. People on the neighbor's property were shooting rifles at a brush pile on our place -- and from their position, our house was in direct alignment. Our oldest was not even two at that point. I told her to get themselves into the back of the house and stay put while I called it in. Turns out, the property owner allowed her grandkid to bring over numerous friends and let them do whatever they wanted. They received numerous citations that day. I am still thankful to this day that those bullets didn't hit anyone.

Lastly, for a few years, I used to sight in rifles for a little spare pocket change. When they'd come to get their guns, I'd always request they take a shot and see how it hit with them behind the trigger. Some did OK, but many could not hit a full-sized deer target at 150 yards from a solid bench-rest. Hogs may be considered vermin, but I don't want any animal to be wounded and suffer.

I agree with you Bobby, might be better off for me to kill one and they come and get it if they want one that bad. I could tell them to get a lease if the wanted to hunt. I really hate to be a horses rear end but don't want any livestock killed. We have it leased now for grazing and hay. I told the guy no hunting period. He asked could he shoot a pig with a shotgun if he saw one. Told him I don't think so. He could just tell ne and I'll get him next time we get up there.