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Headed out to my favorite North Carolina hog haunt (www.hogheavenoutfitters.com), for a little bullet testing this last Tuesday. After some hard hunting in the bitter cold, on Wednesday night I managed to get a shot at some hogs. I was sitting in a stand at crossroads with some corn as bait. Around 6:20 p.m., three piglets showed up for a meal. I watched them for about 10 minutes before they were joined by another group of seven piglets. They fed for another 10 minutes or so before I spotted a few large, dark shapes moving down the road in my direction. So, I turned the red dot on, pulled the hammer back and got ready for show time. Moments later, three good sized hogs began partaking in the corn (roughly 40 yards from my stand). The largest one was quartering towards me when I put the dot just ahead of the point of its onside shoulder and let a 300 grain XTP (Hornady factory .44 magnum ammo) fly. At the report, the hogs left town down a game trail like they had seen a ghost, including the one I shot at. The one I aimed to kill didn't even react to the shot. I climbed down and went over to the bait and there was no blood on the ground -- not very encouraging. So, I made my way down the game trail, maybe fifteen yards in and I saw a large dark shape lying in the trail. I drew my revolver just in case she needed more encouragement to give up the ghost, but she had already expired. She was a pretty hefty sow and she took some effort to drag out of the woods and to the road where my ride would come for me later. But, that is the price you pay....... The bullet center-punched the heart, and caught the liver as well before exiting. She weighed 173-lbs according to the rusty camp scale, but felt about 125-lbs heavier when I was loading her into the truck!    "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | ||
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That just made my day!!! good read and GOOD JOB  | |||
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Uhhhh, Whit.....can you work on your aim a little bit please? Excellent! Finally, a pig-related topic we can enjoy. I'm surprised dipshit didn't comment on how much the hog suffered due to that poorly placed heart shot! | |||
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Whit, I like that pistola set-up ya got there. That's a red dot socpe, eh? Good job. KB ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ | |||
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Nice hog and great shooting. If everybody weighed them we would not hear about so many 300 pounders. | |||
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Thank you -- it's a borrowed rig actually. It is a red dot, but they do not magnify at all. They're really good in low-light situations. I use a red dot on my .475 and have for several years, and I couldn't be happier. Thank you, gentlemen! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Marko, Did I read that correctly? You were using factory loaded XTPs? You feelin okay buddy? I haven't taken as many pigs as many of you guys, but from the ones I have seen, I've definitely noticed they don't tend to leave much of a blood trail if they run off. Much less than any other animal I've hunted at least. | |||
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Daniel, my .475 seems to actually rattle them and it will leave a blood trail. The fact that I used an XTP shouldn't freak you out as much as the fact that I was shooting a pipsqueak .429 magnum! My excuse is that I was testing bullets.........  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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wit: is the feeder under the light or what? Aimpoints, or whatever is in the pic are great. Use em all the time on driven hunts but I've never used one during the night. Why do you use it? Personally I use a Swarovski 2.5-10x56 mm with illuminated reticle during the night hunts....they are pretty good.. fat chicks inc. | |||
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It wasn't dark yet when I shot the hog -- it was dusk (dark was still 30 minutes away when I took the shot). I use red dots because they are easy to acquire quickly and they are fantastic in low-light situations. You can use one in the dark if there is a light source on the target itself. "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Way to go!!!! I'm heading out in about 2.5 hours myself. Hope to have some pics posted later tonight! An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool" | |||
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Good luck to you, Dustoffer! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Here's another pic -- where she gave up the ghost.......  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Well where is the recovered bullet...why didn't you scrounge around in the dirt...what a lazy bastard and...your shooting sucks...looks like your placement was off by at least 10mm 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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Haha!! I didn't look in the dirt for the bullet because with the lack of blood, I thought I might have missed!! LOL! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Thats a big sow, I prefer about 80-100lb sows to eat. But all hogs need to be shot when seen, they are destroying the Southern United States. Bar Boars are my favorite... Anyways, that momma pig didnt give a death squeal out when she passed? | |||
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Nice shootin; Whitworth And some nice lookin porkchops  ---------------------------- | |||
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Brando, I too like barr hogs -- good eating (you do realize that catching them to cut off their testicles is easiest using dogs ) ! I tend to like the bigger sows more as they actually have some fat which makes their meat a lot more moist whe you cook it -- it's so easy to dry out lean meat. Death squeal? Only happens if I didn't hit as well as I thought. She just ran off and expired....... Thanks, guys! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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