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 postimg.
ng.

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.