He had been giveing me the slip for almost a month. I go out early, he would come in late. I go out at one am, he would have already been to the trap. he acted more like a cat than a pig. but I found something he could not resist and he came in saturday evening just before total darkness.

very nice hog

Welcome to the forum. Hope you like it here.
That is a bruiser. Dark thirty of the evening is my favorite time for busting hogs. They don't usually get that big by being dumb, especially when there are folks around. Looking forward to more posts. Nice looking rifle from this side of the monitor. Care to share details?

Best

GWB

WTG!!

How many pounds of "stink" did he have?

Geedubya, thanks I am sure I will enjoy my time here. The rifle is a Pre 64, has been trued/squared, Shilen 26” No. 4 Contour SS, Anser Brake, Canjar Trigger, McMillan Stock, Leupold 2.5X10X45 30MM Tube (LPS) with Conetrol Mounts. It is chambered for a 6MM Ackley. The rifle was built by one of my old hunting buddies who passed away before he was completely finished. His nephew, who is also a smith, finished the rifle and it has been in my safe since 2000 along with an exact copy of the rifle in a .300 Win Mag. I took the .300 to Mexico from 2000 until 2005 and it did a great job. I did not really want to shoot the big 6, for personal reasons but I brought it out in January and bought some cartridges and took it to the range. It shot exactly as I knew it would. Five shot cover with a quarter groups and I am still fire forming brass.

Dustoffer, there was plenty enough stink to go around to everyone on this thread. I only wanted the one picture.

Swifter,
With all due respect I'll not try to humor or console with bromides. It sounds like you've got a special rifle in more than one respect. I'd say it has a purpose and that is to shoot. I'd bet it will sing and bring a special memory with every shot. I know rifles are in-antimate objects, but everyone of mine called to me in a certain way. Otherwise they would continue to belong to someone else.
Hope to see more pix.
Best

GWB

I knew when first seeing that nice camo it was gonna be something of a special rifle.
Sorry about your buddy, too bad he couldn't have hung around long enough to see it shoot.
Hell of a deal putting all that big stink in that fine new looking truck bed! Hope it all washed out.
Go fireform the rest of that brass on more hogs now.
George

That is quite all right Geedubya. I'll tell you what kind of guy he was. 1993 Old Mexico, I had been watching a buck for four days from a finger overlooking two big root plowed areas. The rut was wide open, there were bucks running everywhere and this particular deer had caught my eye due to the fact he could look at another buck and they would cut and run. I told the Cat (nickname) about him and wanted to look at him as he thought he knew most of the deer on the ranch. After lunch I drove the tower truck down to the edge of the root plowed pasture and we set there until sunset. About that witchy hour a doe stepped out from the brush line and the buck along with three others were following her. She was bringing them pretty straight towards us. After giving him the big eye he says Yep, you need to take him. I had already figured on taking the deer. His rifle (a 03 A3 in .308 Norma he built in 1953) was next to me and our Big rifle was in front of him. I reached for his rifle and he reached for the big rifle and we just kind of looked at each other. Being that he had shot most all his like without hearing protection he was plenty deaf and whispering to him was like you or I talking loudly. I had his rifle, on the rest, looking at the buck, flipped the safety off and leaned over and says in the loud whisper of his “I don’t mind you using my rifle, just don’t teach it any bad habits” I lost it, trying not to laugh out loud the truck was shaking from me not laughing. Then he leans over and says “well, you going to shot him or not.” I shot the deer then we argued over whether I had hit him or not. We had a lot of good times down there.

That hog is a hoss!! Congratulations and welcome to the forum!!

Persistence pays off! Good job! That is a big hog..........

Bob

Swift, if i was that skilled and could build a rifle that good i would be heart broke to know it sat idle after my passing. That rig needs freedom from the safe! Welcome to AR

Carneyman,
Thanks. So far the rifle is batting (shooting) .1000. Eight rounds fired, six pigs and two coyotes down. The Ole Man would be tickled on knowing how well it shot, but then, I am sure he does.

Can’t wait to start shooting hand loads.

Hello Swifter,
The suspense is killing me. Unless I missed something, I hope your were waiting for someone to ask what that big old hog couldn't resist!

Tarawa,

I had used all kinds of baits, soured corn, rotted fruit and even some concoctions from several commercial “HOG” baits/lures. The thieving coons ate everything I put out for the pig. I watched him for over a week with my camera, he just didn’t show a lot of interest in the baits, but he did like the liquid hog bait with a fruity smell.
I went to town one day to get some and the feed store was out. I looked around and thought I would try regular, plain molasses, animal molasses. I put some corn in a bucket, added the molasses and stirred/shook it to coat the corn.
I took it out to the trap and buried it where I had been burying the stuff earlier. The coons came in and were digging it up then the hog came in the first time at about 0230 and stayed there until almost 0500. He ate the molasses corn completely which he had not done prior. The coons didn’t like it that much but the next night he came in around 2300 and rooted the corn up and ate it all as well. Mmmmmm, maybe I am on to something I thought. He kept coming in earlier and earlier to get the molasses.
If I remember correctly, raccoons do not produce saliva and I think they had a hard time eating the molasses coated corn. Maybe it stuck to the roofs of their mouths, but they just would not eat it like the other corn.
I have found another set of pig tracks close to my trap that appear to be bigger than the feets on the pig in the image above. Will try to get him to get a taste of molasses and see if he likes it.

How could any hog resist corn and molasses? Great post. I guess I have to plan a Texas hog hunt.

220,

Congrats on the hog there, it's a nice one for sure.

Similar to your rifle, I have a couple of my Pop's in the safe, that I haul out every now and again when the weather is nice to stretch. THey always seem to enjoy themselves in one way or another.

On a side note, I hauled my 25-06 AI up to the ocuntry with me Easter weekend, and managed to go 6 out of 7 on hogs. Still not sure about #7, as I really didn't feel much of a need to crawl off into the brush to see about it when there were easy ones to pick up.

Good idea on the molasses, might have to give that a try myself.

Mike,
The 25-06 AI always intrigued me. Know a couple of old timers that have them and they really like them as far as accuracy goes. I had one several years ago and entertained the idea of making an Ackley out of it, but when my son graduated HS, I cleaned it up really nice and gave it to him. He had wanted it after taking his first deer with the rifle.


Pretty good shooting getting 6 1/2 hogs. You must have got into a mess if them.

Ground Checked!