Friday 4/14 Sow down

18 April 2017, 18:13

Left straight after work with a friend to see if we could get on a hog at a new lease he got on.

Got to the place and put up the Elusive Wildlife Kill light under the feeder and got in the blind about 7:20pm.

Around 11:00 we start hearing brush breaking but we weren't seeing anything under the kill light. Turns out the hogs could see something about the green light that they did not like and wouldn't come in.

11:15pm spotted a big sow with the Foxpro Fire Eye and my friend drops her with the .257 Weatherby. Pretty impressive caliber for Texas...seems like everything drops with it.

No estimate on weight....but we ended up not trying to lift her on to the tailgate and ran a ratchet strap through her hind legs to move her

19 April 2017, 04:57

dustoffer

Takes 'em a few nights to get accustomed to the lights, regardless of color.

19 April 2017, 07:40

Charles_Helm

Nice work!

19 April 2017, 20:07

custombolt

You over-killed that one with the 257 Weatherby. Just look at how over-dead it is.

Nice shooting.

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Originally posted by Buglemintoday:
Left straight after work with a friend to see if we could get on a hog at a new lease he got on.

Got to the place and put up the Elusive Wildlife Kill light under the feeder and got in the blind about 7:20pm.

Around 11:00 we start hearing brush breaking but we weren't seeing anything under the kill light. Turns out the hogs could see something about the green light that they did not like and wouldn't come in.

11:15pm spotted a big sow with the Foxpro Fire Eye and my friend drops her with the .257 Weatherby. Pretty impressive caliber for Texas...seems like everything drops with it.

No estimate on weight....but we ended up not trying to lift her on to the tailgate and ran a ratchet strap through her hind legs to move her

19 April 2017, 22:10

Buglemintoday

Thanks for the comments guys

My friend is addicted to the .257W...I am betting this year the .300 win mag and other rifles are left in the safe for that one to hunt again.

20 April 2017, 02:12

Bobby Tomek

That looks to be a large, healthy specimen...well done!!!

20 April 2017, 02:59

Buglemintoday

Thanks Bobby! I'm glad my friend was able to get on a good sized pig...usually he wants me to shoot the hogs since I really enjoy testing calibers and different bullet types on them.

Here is another photo so you can see the size compared to a human lol. But I like the first photo I posted because you can see the gut and width of this sow. She was good sized!

23 April 2017, 11:17

georgeld

That just about has to be 300lbs or close.
Sausage?

Good pics for in the dark. Thanks for sharing.
George

29 April 2017, 01:57

Buglemintoday

I am thinking that she was at least 250-300. They always seem larger once you try and move them.

I am hoping in the next few weeks I will get a smaller one with the m1 garand for the bbq grill.

For some reason the Iphone took a great posing photo of my friend with the sow, Thanks!

Justin