SkyPup
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Two of us were setup in my UTV in my backyard watching the thermal screen from my remote FLIR M-324 Pan/Tilt over an area I had baited with corn pipes where some large hogs were showing up. Both of us had suppressed SIG 716 .308s with FLIR thermals and 150 grain SPs.
Large Loner Boar Hog shows up out of dense woods into the open 75 yards in front of us, target with thermals and countdown 1,2,3....
I shoot and boar is knocked over with a loud WHACK when .308 pill hits him, however he gets back up and and is limping into a nearby dense jungle brush.
No shot from my buddy, his rifle missfired with a dud reloaded shell.
Get out and both of us search with helmet mounted FLIR M-24 thermals and FLIR XR hand scanners for an hour with no thermal signatures sighted.
Get back home at 4:30AM and crash.
After sunup, headed back out to canvass area to try to discover where the wounded boar bedded down for the night, figuring he would be dead.
Had my KAC-15 with Truijicon ACOG, BE Meyers MAWL dual beam laser on Green Vis, two magazines of 556 77gr SMKs, and my SIG P-226.
Hiked out into the dense brush and began transecting the area back and forth using the FLIR InstaAlert checking for heat signatures.
About to give it up after an hour of hiking back and forth in and out, when I stepped out of a thick bristle brush right on top of the hog bedded down 20 feet in front of me.
He got up and ran into even deeper thicker woods thicket with me getting off five quick shots at point blank range into his side and [beeep] as he disappeared again.
Circled the thick brush trying to see him with no joy for thirty minutes.
The sun was occluded and I was on the verge of getting lost in the dense woods but kept slowing walking around a dense thicket.
Suddenly he came charging out at me from 40 feet, with Green Laser on his head I shot him 10 times and he went down 25 feet from me.
Shot another five rounds into his neck to sever his spine and I finally had him dead at my feet.
Now I was a quarter mile or more deep in the woods pretty much almost lost as the morning sun was obliterated with dense clouds.
Tried to walk straight back out to forest grade to the ATV but that was impossible.
Somehow made it back out to the grade and hiked down to ATV and returned to my marked spot where I had come out.
Driving the ATV in there to get the hog was a nightmare and extremely difficult getting hung up everywhere and getting lost again.
Had to come back out to forest grade twice and reenter to try to find the dead hog where I had left him.
On the third try I finally saw him, roped him on the hitch and put in in 4WD to drag him out.
After overheating the ATV, finally made it out to the grade and headed a half mile back home in 1st gear 4WD.
Thank God for diesel engine power and tractor hydraulics as I finally got him winched up in the barn about noontime and he weighed 410 pounds on the scale, hams are 40 pounds each.
Went to brewery and got 300 pounds of ice and a case of freshly brewed suds and went to work on the beast......
This is my SIG 716 .308 I shot him with Elcan 1-6X, FLIR T-70:
This is the area we were staked out in the mobile UTV hunting blind:
This is the same shot with the FLIR M-324 remote Pan/Tilt, he came out of the woods to the left:
This is the bed he bedded down for the night in where I first jumped him and shot him again, you can see the blood in the dirt:
This is him where I finally put him down with the KAC-15 and MAWL Green Vis Laser:
Here is the ATV finally making it out to the forest grade road to head home:
Here is the diesel powered hydraulics and mobile UTV hunting blind back at the house:
Here is the size of this dude's hoof:
Here is the beer factory where I picked up the 300 pounds of ice and cold brew for the butchering job:
They do not mess around here, best [beeep] beer around:
Here is the scale once I got him strung up in the barn:
Most amazing day I have had in a long long time......
Large Loner Boar Hog shows up out of dense woods into the open 75 yards in front of us, target with thermals and countdown 1,2,3....
I shoot and boar is knocked over with a loud WHACK when .308 pill hits him, however he gets back up and and is limping into a nearby dense jungle brush.
No shot from my buddy, his rifle missfired with a dud reloaded shell.
Get out and both of us search with helmet mounted FLIR M-24 thermals and FLIR XR hand scanners for an hour with no thermal signatures sighted.
Get back home at 4:30AM and crash.
After sunup, headed back out to canvass area to try to discover where the wounded boar bedded down for the night, figuring he would be dead.
Had my KAC-15 with Truijicon ACOG, BE Meyers MAWL dual beam laser on Green Vis, two magazines of 556 77gr SMKs, and my SIG P-226.
Hiked out into the dense brush and began transecting the area back and forth using the FLIR InstaAlert checking for heat signatures.
About to give it up after an hour of hiking back and forth in and out, when I stepped out of a thick bristle brush right on top of the hog bedded down 20 feet in front of me.
He got up and ran into even deeper thicker woods thicket with me getting off five quick shots at point blank range into his side and [beeep] as he disappeared again.
Circled the thick brush trying to see him with no joy for thirty minutes.
The sun was occluded and I was on the verge of getting lost in the dense woods but kept slowing walking around a dense thicket.
Suddenly he came charging out at me from 40 feet, with Green Laser on his head I shot him 10 times and he went down 25 feet from me.
Shot another five rounds into his neck to sever his spine and I finally had him dead at my feet.
Now I was a quarter mile or more deep in the woods pretty much almost lost as the morning sun was obliterated with dense clouds.
Tried to walk straight back out to forest grade to the ATV but that was impossible.
Somehow made it back out to the grade and hiked down to ATV and returned to my marked spot where I had come out.
Driving the ATV in there to get the hog was a nightmare and extremely difficult getting hung up everywhere and getting lost again.
Had to come back out to forest grade twice and reenter to try to find the dead hog where I had left him.
On the third try I finally saw him, roped him on the hitch and put in in 4WD to drag him out.
After overheating the ATV, finally made it out to the grade and headed a half mile back home in 1st gear 4WD.
Thank God for diesel engine power and tractor hydraulics as I finally got him winched up in the barn about noontime and he weighed 410 pounds on the scale, hams are 40 pounds each.
Went to brewery and got 300 pounds of ice and a case of freshly brewed suds and went to work on the beast......
This is my SIG 716 .308 I shot him with Elcan 1-6X, FLIR T-70:
This is the area we were staked out in the mobile UTV hunting blind:
This is the same shot with the FLIR M-324 remote Pan/Tilt, he came out of the woods to the left:
This is the bed he bedded down for the night in where I first jumped him and shot him again, you can see the blood in the dirt:
This is him where I finally put him down with the KAC-15 and MAWL Green Vis Laser:
Here is the ATV finally making it out to the forest grade road to head home:
Here is the diesel powered hydraulics and mobile UTV hunting blind back at the house:
Here is the size of this dude's hoof:
Here is the beer factory where I picked up the 300 pounds of ice and cold brew for the butchering job:
They do not mess around here, best [beeep] beer around:
Here is the scale once I got him strung up in the barn:
Most amazing day I have had in a long long time......
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