My son called me Friday and told me I had to get out to one of the circles he was planting peanuts on. Said he had a pig, probably just a single one, that was dealing him misery. It was getting in the rows just going straight down them eating the new seed. He had to replant several areas just from a single nights damage.
My XQ50 that won't hold zero didn't go back in the mail Friday as expected, I am still waiting on a shipping label. So I opened the box back up and took it out to use as a scanner. I had my old Photon 6.5x50 L digital night vision on an older 6.5 Grendel upper to shoot with. I waited in the high rack in the back of my pickup for the pig to come in. She showed up about 11:30 pm. I saw her cut across the field about 350 yards out, but she went behind a hump in the field.
I grabbed my tripod, slung the AR on my chest, and used the XQ50 to stalk her. BTW, the rangefinder was really handy using the XQ50 as a scanner. A scanner with built in rangefinder would be great for guys doing this on a regular basis. I just stalked up until I was within 100 yards of her. I that point I slipped the thermal into my fanny pack and put my rifle up on the tripod. Turned on the old Photon with illuminator and shot her. 90 TNT behind the ear dropped her like a rock.
Heart girth measurement on her was 44", which puts her in that 240 lb range. She may have actually touched 250, she was really fat. Probably was about due to drop a litter of pigs.
I'm no good at getting the image posted in the thread, y'all will have to click on it.
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