posted 01 March 2013 06:08
Son-in-law has been having a hog problem. He ran into a small herd a couple of days ago, he dropped one and rolled another, but lost it as it got dark.

With the above in mind, I intended to take a stand not far from where he had his last little hog run in. Never made it to the stand. When I got to the pasture, about a hundred yards out was a herd of hogs. I had the wind in my favor so I took my time and went to prone. The closes hog to me was head on so I picked one broadside and shot. The hog went down at the shot. The closes one to me headed for the woods, I jumped up and got off two shots and it looked like I had connected, but it made the woods. The rest of the herd broke across the pasture for the woods on the far side. I picked out the biggest and cranked out two more shots. Acturally I cranked out three, but the last only went click. No more bullets. The hog though went down to my suprise.

Well I started off to check out the first one when I observed the second in the woods, it hadn't gone far. It was a sow, which had taken one in the guts and another through the boiler room. The first had a broken back but was still alive, no bullets for a coup d' grace, so I cut its throat with my pocket knife. The third had one round go through its boiler room. It was a large boar, about 250 lbs or so.

Called a friend who wanted some hogs for a get-together and loaded him up. Lot to love with the model 88.

sounds like fun

Way to go Larry! BTW I love those Win 88s. Would yours happen to be in 358 Win. In my opinion a great hog caliber.

No unfortunately not a .358, if it was I probably couldn't have afforded it. I think the 358 would just about be perfect for hog hunting.

That said a .308 get's the job done. Killing hogs I've found is not that difficult. Finding them after the kill often is, cause the freeking things don't bleed like a deer. A bigger hole might be an aid in that regard.