Sow Nailed in Backyard
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SkyPup
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Big fat gravid sow on the 18 hole golf course fairway right below the Club House.
Took a 150 grain SMK .308 from a SIG 716 with a FLIR RS32-35mm and a 70 grain Barnes TSX from a HK 556 with Flir T-70 at 175 yards with both slugs hitting simultaneously.
Hog shuddered and dropped in its tracks, video to come later on.....
Took a 150 grain SMK .308 from a SIG 716 with a FLIR RS32-35mm and a 70 grain Barnes TSX from a HK 556 with Flir T-70 at 175 yards with both slugs hitting simultaneously.
Hog shuddered and dropped in its tracks, video to come later on.....
SkyPup
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We had a great hunt and a great time last night blasting some wild hogs. I usually do not write up what went down to any great extent but this was pretty phunny.
About two weeks ago, a little old lady that lives in a great big house all by herself called us up and asked if we’d come down to her 10 acre property and kill some hogs for her, she said they were destroying both her front and backyard. We were busy and told her we’d get back with her, which we did not do and subsequently she called up one of our friends who is a Game Warden to complain and ask if he’d do something about it. The Game Warden then called us up and said she had major hog problems and would we go down and setup a night shoot on her property. She was out of town on a vacation for a few days and he said we could setup in her yard this weekend.
We drove the truck down to her place and parked on the paved cul-de-sac and got out and scanned around with our Flir LS-XR and Flir LS-64 handheld thermals for any heat signature. Immediately we saw two does standing in her front yard with two bedded down fawns. However right across the street from the truck, we spotted a sounder group all lite up red in InstaAlert, but did not have permission for night hunting on that side of the street on someone else’s property. So, we backed down the street and waited to see if the sounder would cross the road to the other side where we did have permission to be night hunting. Sure enough, about ten minutes later, a sounder of about 10 hogs came around the end of the cul-de-sac in a ditch but we could see the tops of their backs from our vantage point. Hit a big sow and she went screaming off into a thick swamp right behind and we could her her thrashing in the water but could not get to her without waders. Put another round into her head in the pond and everything was quiet again. We had only been there for about 15 minutes and already had a dead hog.
Next we walked around to the rear of her large house and immediately spotted another loner hog about 175 yards out in a clearing. Figured he must be a boar since he was by himself in the middle of a large improved cattle pasture and there were no trees or anything to rest against so just took a standing shot at him and was surprised to see him drop dead in his tracks with a bullet to the spine right in front of his shoulder. Now we had at least one hog recovered.
Walked down a 50 foot embankment down into the cattle pasture by the dead hog and all the cows came over to check us out looking for feed. Spied another sounder off the edge of the pasture under some big live oaks rooting up fresh acorn mast with the Flir handhelds about a quarter mile away and made our way closer to them. Got setup standing again and opened up approximately 100 yards and two hogs immediately dropped dead right next to each other. Another ten hogs took off for the thick tall dog fennel to escape and another one of them got nailed before the rest vanished in the brush.
Since we had four hogs dead and recoverable and one other dead and lost in the pond, we decided to call it a night and get the truck to recover the dead hogs out in the field. Loaded them up and headed back home and dumped 200 pounds of ice (we have an on-site commercial ice machine in the barn) on the carcasses in the sled and left them to clean the next morning.
Got up bright and early at the ranch and were busy cleaning the hogs when a Deputy Sheriff pulls up in the driveway and gets out of his patrol car and heads out way. We were covered in blood with butcher wraps on and he asks us if we have seen a lost cow since a dozen cows had escaped the neighbors cattle pasture the night before. We said no and then he asks us, “Do you mind if I ask what you are doing?”, seeing all the blood and pile of offal he thought that we had butchered the missing cow!!! Things went much better after he saw all the hogs heads/capes and found out he’s on the same softball team…..
Gear used was a FLIR LS-XR handheld, FLIR LS-64 handheld, FLIR T-70 clip-on on a HK 556, and FLIR T-50 clip-on on a RRA 556 shooting Barnes 70 grain TSX:
About two weeks ago, a little old lady that lives in a great big house all by herself called us up and asked if we’d come down to her 10 acre property and kill some hogs for her, she said they were destroying both her front and backyard. We were busy and told her we’d get back with her, which we did not do and subsequently she called up one of our friends who is a Game Warden to complain and ask if he’d do something about it. The Game Warden then called us up and said she had major hog problems and would we go down and setup a night shoot on her property. She was out of town on a vacation for a few days and he said we could setup in her yard this weekend.
We drove the truck down to her place and parked on the paved cul-de-sac and got out and scanned around with our Flir LS-XR and Flir LS-64 handheld thermals for any heat signature. Immediately we saw two does standing in her front yard with two bedded down fawns. However right across the street from the truck, we spotted a sounder group all lite up red in InstaAlert, but did not have permission for night hunting on that side of the street on someone else’s property. So, we backed down the street and waited to see if the sounder would cross the road to the other side where we did have permission to be night hunting. Sure enough, about ten minutes later, a sounder of about 10 hogs came around the end of the cul-de-sac in a ditch but we could see the tops of their backs from our vantage point. Hit a big sow and she went screaming off into a thick swamp right behind and we could her her thrashing in the water but could not get to her without waders. Put another round into her head in the pond and everything was quiet again. We had only been there for about 15 minutes and already had a dead hog.
Next we walked around to the rear of her large house and immediately spotted another loner hog about 175 yards out in a clearing. Figured he must be a boar since he was by himself in the middle of a large improved cattle pasture and there were no trees or anything to rest against so just took a standing shot at him and was surprised to see him drop dead in his tracks with a bullet to the spine right in front of his shoulder. Now we had at least one hog recovered.
Walked down a 50 foot embankment down into the cattle pasture by the dead hog and all the cows came over to check us out looking for feed. Spied another sounder off the edge of the pasture under some big live oaks rooting up fresh acorn mast with the Flir handhelds about a quarter mile away and made our way closer to them. Got setup standing again and opened up approximately 100 yards and two hogs immediately dropped dead right next to each other. Another ten hogs took off for the thick tall dog fennel to escape and another one of them got nailed before the rest vanished in the brush.
Since we had four hogs dead and recoverable and one other dead and lost in the pond, we decided to call it a night and get the truck to recover the dead hogs out in the field. Loaded them up and headed back home and dumped 200 pounds of ice (we have an on-site commercial ice machine in the barn) on the carcasses in the sled and left them to clean the next morning.
Got up bright and early at the ranch and were busy cleaning the hogs when a Deputy Sheriff pulls up in the driveway and gets out of his patrol car and heads out way. We were covered in blood with butcher wraps on and he asks us if we have seen a lost cow since a dozen cows had escaped the neighbors cattle pasture the night before. We said no and then he asks us, “Do you mind if I ask what you are doing?”, seeing all the blood and pile of offal he thought that we had butchered the missing cow!!! Things went much better after he saw all the hogs heads/capes and found out he’s on the same softball team…..
Gear used was a FLIR LS-XR handheld, FLIR LS-64 handheld, FLIR T-70 clip-on on a HK 556, and FLIR T-50 clip-on on a RRA 556 shooting Barnes 70 grain TSX:
SkyPup
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Another big gravid sow takes two Barnes 70 grain TSX to the head, one from a SIG 556 with DBAL-2 IR laser and ITT PVS-14 helmet mounted laser and the other from an HK 556 with FLIR T-70 thermal.
Spotted sow 1/2 mile out in pasture with handheld Flir LS-XR and took 10 minutes to walk in close enough to put her down.
Thermal and NV worked like a charm together!
Spotted sow 1/2 mile out in pasture with handheld Flir LS-XR and took 10 minutes to walk in close enough to put her down.
Thermal and NV worked like a charm together!
crowkiller51
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Way to go Skypup.
Maybe those hogs need hearing aids. (to hear you say FORE!)
Maybe those hogs need hearing aids. (to hear you say FORE!)
doublecheese
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It seems like you've been quite busy lately ....
Go for it
Go for it
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SkyPup
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We recently shot over a dozen hogs with handloaded Sierra 240 grain MatchKings subsonics (chrono 1,050fps) in our 16" Noveske 300 BLK and 12.5" AAC BLK and had not recovered a single slug to find out how they were performing.
It looked liked they were all passing through the hogs body and exiting out the other side, making precision sniper shots a requirement to put them down.
Anyhow, finally recovered one from last night and our theory was proven correct, slug stuck in the cervical spine on a neck shot.
Cervical vertebrae are thinner and more delicate than the thoracic vertebrae and the 300 BLK did not even deform when stopping.
Shot Placement is everything with a 300 BLK MatchKing!
It looked liked they were all passing through the hogs body and exiting out the other side, making precision sniper shots a requirement to put them down.
Anyhow, finally recovered one from last night and our theory was proven correct, slug stuck in the cervical spine on a neck shot.
Cervical vertebrae are thinner and more delicate than the thoracic vertebrae and the 300 BLK did not even deform when stopping.
Shot Placement is everything with a 300 BLK MatchKing!
crowkiller51
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Looks Sorta like an Archery Field Point results.
I think your right about having to Strategically place a 300BLK out sub-sonic bullet for a fast kill.
Looks like a Fun Caliber though.
Keep up the Good Work.
mmmm.. It that Sausage I smell cooking??
I think your right about having to Strategically place a 300BLK out sub-sonic bullet for a fast kill.
Looks like a Fun Caliber though.
Keep up the Good Work.
mmmm.. It that Sausage I smell cooking??
I have all my pieces on hand to do a 300BLK build. I have a 16" HBAR upper with a 1/8 twist. I'm wondering if you've shot any of the 110gr Barnes TTSX supersonic loads? I shoot the 70gr TSX out of my 1/7 5.56mm AR as you do. I plan on using the 110gr TTSX in the 300BLK once I get it all set up.
SkyPup
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Originally Posted By: R. TokerI have all my pieces on hand to do a 300BLK build. I have a 16" HBAR upper with a 1/8 twist. I'm wondering if you've shot any of the 110gr Barnes TTSX supersonic loads? I shoot the 70gr TSX out of my 1/7 5.56mm AR as you do. I plan on using the 110gr TTSX in the 300BLK once I get it all set up.
The 110 Barnes are the way to go super with the 300BLK, the 130 grain Barnes do not petal properly.
The 110 Barnes are the way to go super with the 300BLK, the 130 grain Barnes do not petal properly.