How the big one was hunted...

07 April 2010, 06:15

The last evening of my trip in the patagonian mountains we asked the farm worker where we can see pigs as we have already hunted several red stags.

He told us that in a nearbye spring creek, up in the mountain, there were some wild apple trees and that pigs visit the place often.

So around 6pm we sat up in the hill waiting to see if something shows up.

The evening was rainy and the farmworker told us that it was ideal to see pigs.

After an hour we saw a lonely boar walking down to the creek from the hill infront us. When he reached the bottom he start wallowing in a mud spot but the tall trees there unable us to see him clearly enough to risk a shot so we just sat there silently waiting to see what happen. Finally, after some minutes that seems hours he moved up the creek and walked into an open. In that moment my hunting buddy took the shot with his 3006 Remington ADL using Factory Remington ammo 150 grains corelockt.

It's funny how sometimes we talk for hours about this or that premium bullet when the plain corelockt is more than enough in normal game at normal distances

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07 April 2010, 23:21

Lorenzo

Thank guys,
Indeed is was a very big boar, the biggest I have seen so far. At least pure blood.

Everyone there estimated the weight between 200 and 220 kilos...that's aprox. 400 lbs I think.

It was not a monster, but it was a VERY big pig by my standards. Maybe the biggest I will ever see. But We must keep in mind that I hunted it in a place where nobody hunts them, up in the mountains, where they can get old, with lots of food from dead cattle, apples, pinetrees seeds, etc, etc.

While hunting there, the pigs ate the deer's carcass that were left in the fields in two days !!!

Old animals grow big, the thing is that we never wait so much long to shoot them....

08 April 2010, 02:00

Mke / Tx

Very nice one Lorenzo.

You also right on the CL's. I recently dropped the hammer on a nice sized boar using my 25-06 AI with a 120gr CL, that impacted the shoulder shield at close to 3100fps. I figured the bullet would have blown to bits when it hit the hog at only about 110 yards. I was happy to find it on the off side shoulder just through the shoulder blade and against the shield fully expanded and in the classic mushroom.

I have a LOT of them in several calibers I have purchased over the years to load for target practice, but after that hog I am rethinking my loads. I have used the 150gr in .308 from my little Ruger Comapct out to 400yds to drop decent hogs with one shot stops time and time again. In fact I decided that since the standard Rem. factory stuff shot so well and did such a fine job on the game I wasn't even going to load for that rifle.

Thanks for sharing.

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