I have been watching a group of pigs via game camera for a couple of weeks and finally connected with one Sunday morning. I shot him with my Blaser R-93 Professional Tracker in 308 using a 165 gr Corelokt, 46.5 grs Varget, CCI 250 primer in Lapua case.

Nice rifle, good pig.

Nice pig. Its not often you see a rifle with a good set of open sights theses days either.
What range did you shoot it at?

All of my big-bore rifles have open sight and that's what makes them fun to hunt with in my opinion!

Very nice job, Jeff! That is a fine rifle and pig! Congratulations!

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Its not often you see a rifle with a good set of open sights theses days either.

What range did you shoot it at?

Blaser put the RAZ high visibility fiber optic sights on many of their barrels which make open sighted shooting pretty easy.

I shot this little boar at 80 yards.

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Its not often you see a rifle with a good set of open sights theses days either.

It is great to have young eyes. I haven't been able to see the front sight for a while now.

That short barreled SOB Blaser looks like the perfect Texas truck/brush rifle.

Congrats on the "eater"!!

Good Hunting,

Bob

Nice piggie -- and nice rifle as well!

Most of my guns are scoped by necessity as my eyes will continually shift focus on multi-planed setups like open sights, making it tough for accurate and consistent shot placement.

But an open-sighted rig like yours sure seems to be a terrific match for that type of hunting.

For the record, my project for today is to get a scope sighted in for this gun. I have a Leupold VX III 1.5-5 illuminated reticle in QD mounts that I have had on my 9.3x62 barrel, and I am going to move it over to this barrel.

Here are a couple of pigs back in the summer that fell to this scope/barrel set up.

Some real fun there. Great gun too. Packy