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I have been watching a nice boar on my game camera for a few weeks, and I have been actively hunting him for about a week. I have spend several long nights in my blind, but tonight he made a fatal mistake. I was hunting with my custom Encore with a 20" Match Grade Machine barrel (full bull with 8 flutes) chambered in 9.3x74R, and this was the first time to hunt with my Laser Genetics "imitation night vision" light mounted on my gun. Here is the picture.   | ||
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Well Done.  Tell us more about the bullet, the shot, how far did he run after the shot etc. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Nice work, Jeff! That's a great boar! Congratulations!  Now, tell us about the load! "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, I shot him in the left eye while he was looking at my light, and the labotamy seemed to cause his legs not to work.  My 9.3x74 load is 68.5 grs H4831sc, CCI 250 primer, 285 gr PRVI bullet in virgin Norma brass. This load has proven to be a "one holer" load. | |||
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Thanks, Jeff! Nice work! "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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Nice work! Clearly the "imitation night vision" works - the proof is in the pork! How like your set-up after field testing? Pros, cons? | |||
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The "set up" as a whole actually worked better than I had expected. The only thing I thought of after the fact is that I could have installed the pressure switch instead of having to manually turn the light off and on. | |||
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Nice pig Jeff | |||
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Guns that can shoot them in the eye are good. Nice pig. ****************** "Policies making areas "gun free" provide a sense of safety to those who engage in magical thinking..." Glenn Harlan Reynolds | |||
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Bang flop, ALWAYS works. Great job, and a neat pig whacker. Keith IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!! ------------------------------------ We Band of Bubbas & STC Hunting Club, The Whomper Club | |||
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I am still doing load development with the x74, and it appears not to be very finicky. So far, loads with H4831, H4350, and Varget have all grouped EXTREMELY well. | |||
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Very nice! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Nice boar and a very nice rifle. Congratulations on both. velocity is like a new car, always losing value. BC is like diamonds, holding value forever. | |||
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