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Originally posted by K Evans:
My youngest son took a few days off after Thanksgiving and stayed at our cabin to deer/pig hunt. My wife and I were there, too, doing the same. I took an AR 15 (.223) with a YHM suppressor and a Pulsar Thermion thermal scope. My son had never used a thermal scope so after a text to the game warden, he was the trigger man Friday night when we went by three feeders that are scattered across our place. There were pigs at each of them and he was able to shoot two small ones at the first feeder, one pretty good one at the second feeder and the third feeder, which is the place we have that has an olive orchard, had a pig inside the hog panel pen. My son shot it and it climbed, not jumped, over the hog panel and got shot again in the process. Never seen such a thing and tonight I checked my camera card from that feeder and there was another pig in the feeder pen. The hog panels are 33 inches tall. We also were able to "thermalize" two pigs in an uncut hayfield, which he shot, too. He wants a thermal scope now. The following morning he shot a pretty good pig and Saturday evening he shot yet another 150-200
pound pig.
Friday morning I shot a big spotted sow and a small pig from my stand with a .300 Win Mag from a group of about 15 pigs (third spotted one I've shot there). We are pretty much covered up with pigs right now, have no idea why, and usually if you shoot them up they go away for a couple of weeks, not so this time. Saturday morning I shot a medium sized pig and that evening I got a "two-fer" from the same stand with the same rifle. Sunday morning I shot a lone boar, maybe 150 pounds from the same stand. This evening I was serious about shooting a buck and was in the same stand where I shot the pigs, there were several does milling around the feeder and a big boar came out of the brush and literally chased them off. He came back to the feeder and was facing my stand. I shot him in the forehead with my old Remington 700 in .270 Win with a 110 gr Barnes TTX, dropped him in his tracks. He was heavy. I had to drag him off with my truck.I tried to post a photo of the big one from today but I can't get it to work. Pretty good 6 days for the hunters and bad for the pigs.
Still plenty around, two ran across the road in front of me while I was driving back to our cabin.

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Originally posted by Frostbit:
I'll leave it to Karl to explain but I hope he knows you can shoot the pigs and don't have to throw the rifles and pistol at them.