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My insanely busy time ends on 6/30. We usually head up to this private club that we belong to for a few days as it is very relaxing. I usually manage to whack a few hogs. We had a couple of interesting encounters. The guy in charge of all the hunting called me and asked that I shoot every single hog I saw on food plots. The hogs were just hammering the new plots. I couldn’t say no. Yesterday, it was pouring rain. I spotted a big bunch terrorizing a food plot. I put the slip on them and BOOM! It was clear that I hit the hog hard. Something was weird. It was hard to tell as hogs were running everywhere. I went up and found where the hog went in the bushes. In just a couple of yards, I came upon a rather shocking sight. Almost all of his internal organs were laying on the ground. Stomach, intestines, kidneys, etc. Blood was everywhere. Yet this hog ran about 100 yards. Unbelievable! This morning we came across a group on a feeder where we never see them. I took a running shot at a big boar and knocked him down. We waited a bit and tracked him. Tracking was not easy. It was HOT! A few hundred yards into this, I heard something. I realized it was boar breathing. I try to tell my buddy who is about deaf. He doesn’t understand. I took 2 steps to the left and the boar jumped up from less than 10 yards. I hammered him. He was a big bugger with big teeth. 225. Quite exciting. | ||
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Pics young lad, pics. 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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Since the photobucket fiasco I have not got a replacement. I am happy to e mail them to someone if they can post them. | |||
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I switched to imgur and it gets the job done for me An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool" | |||
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I refer to those as "Mission Critical Components." Not going far without them. M | |||
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Not pigs, but, BIL and I were hunting mulies. He shot a two pt that ran around a bush and about ran over him. Excuses! Shot low to the belly and spilled the whole mass out. Buck ran around and nearly into me. I missed, then it turned down a real steep hill while we poured the lead at it slinging his guts out to both sides. We finally hit it near the bottom. Amazing what animals can do when in a panic. 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 work, Larry. I don't envy you guys your summer heat and humidity, although it has been close to 100 here in the desert the past couple of weeks. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Larry's    Life itself is a gift. Live it up if you can. | |||
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It is pretty amazing how far an animal can go and how long it can live after loosing vital organs. I sat in a blind with a lady a few years ago who wanted to shoot a whitetail doe. I placed my camera where it could capture a good view of the action and had it set to "movie" so I could record her hunt. She was shooting a .243 with a 70 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip, admittedly a varmint round. A group of deer came onto the field and she picked out a doe which strayed from the group by about 60 yards and nearer to our blind, making perhaps a 40 yard shot. I turned on my camera and started to record just before she fired. At the shot the doe "humped" a little, but had not much more reaction. Then the doe trotted slowly back over to the larger group of deer, which had spooked briefly but had not left the field. I kept my camera on the doe while the lady prepared for a second shot, but there was an obstacle partially blocking her shot, so I told her that the doe would soon fall and not to worry about it. The doe finally began to sway and fell. This was just slightly over one minute after being shot, according to the movie I had captured of the event. When I went to field dress the doe I found that there was absolutely no recognizable organ in its chest cavity. The varmint bullet had virtually vaporized both the heart and the lungs. They "poured" out of the chest cavity like liquid slush. The little deer had trotted 60 yards and stood for over one minute without benefit of either functioning heart or lungs. It is hard to believe, but apparently it took that long for the brain to run out of oxygen. | |||
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Yup. What my pic not does show is that about 10 yards further were more organs. Lungs, liver, etc. I think I found everything except the heart. I would love to have a slow motion video of the shot. The hog reacted strangely but hogs were running all over hell and back. It was hard to tell what was going on. My guess from the entrance hole is that somehow, I hit a bone just right that somehow sent bones flying that ripped open the body cavity. The entrance was in the shoulder. I have made a few shots (by total chance) in my life that I will bet good money that I could not replicate if I tried. This is one of those. | |||
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Ive seen that with both deer and antelope on rare occasions, and once with a bob cat that strung his guts about 25 or 50 yards before I found him dead..gut had hung up on some thornes and he ran the out like a string...It just happens once in a while with about any animal. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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