Decided to sit last before the biblically flood today! AS my vision has gotten worse I has been installing brighter lights. Now using 60-6500 kelvin or daylights. Pigs do not like them! Went back to one cool white and one warm white. The pigs are coming back! Its tougher to see a black pig but better than no pigs! Put a 4 power EER on the Contender. If a coon showed it would be .223 time. Cows were at the feeder, put everything in the tower and ran them off with the ATV. It gave the Thermocell time to work. Before the feeder went I saw something moving at the feeder. (Gotta lay off the Boost) It looked like some mythical reptilian creature was crawling around! Binos revealed a sounder of little tiny pigs milling around. There were two pure white ones making it look like it was slithering! I could not get on one with the Contender and the 416 Ruger was too big! No corn yet, they left. 9:26 a lot bigger pig came in. Touched the Ruger off, fire, but a resounding thump! It went down but jumped up and ran. Lots of blood and lung where it stood but very little blood trail. 145.9 pound sow. Mud was catching blood on the inlet, intestines blocked the exit. Sure there were buns in the oven!

Looks like a belly full of piggies.

Good shooting, go get a few more.

George

It will be awhile, every where is very soggy! I got her out just before it started raining again, that's why no chin can! The ground is saturated. The 3.5" we had last night and this morning could only run off. Lots of street and road closures. Both water gaps at the wife's were down first 3.5". This 3.5" probably buried them! I am still thankful for the rain!

Well, we knocked back a good number between the 3 sows

Well done!

We had to leave for higher ground and stay in a near-by hotel. This is a view from the yard -- and the water kept rising. It did not make it into the house, though.

I'll post another photo later of the same view from just before we left. In the foreground, that slough already has about 10-11 feet of water in it. In the background, the water within the creek banks is about 26-28 feet deep -- LOTS of water coming through at a high rate of speed.

That's over 150 yards of water.

Wow. This makes our "coupla inches" here in the Rolling Plains seem like a light drizzle.
Nice work on the sow, LO. With all that muck, I am guessing you didn't feel obliged to take the heart girth measurement.

Cross ground, deep, and fast -- GTFO

Mosquitos were too bad for much. Several tried to buck the thermocell! It was hot and steamy trying to drag her out of the brush! Bobby looks like the creek at the wife's! Hers is 100 yards bank to bank! It went down but next day had another 1.80 inches. Back out of the water channel but not bank to bank! Maybe tomorrow I can see what I can salvage of the water gaps!

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Big sow! Congrats and thanks for writing it up!

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