JTPinTX
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Been getting some serious crop damage on freshly planted peanuts. I killed a 240 lb sow out of the field last week, but over the weekend the damage suddenly really ramped up. A sounder with a pretty high average body weight found the field and was tearing it up. My normal hunting partner couldn't go so I gave Igor a call and he drove down from Amarillo to get another gun on them.
We got out in the field about 10 or so. The wind gave us fits. It kept switching back and forth, changing direction. One pretty decent pig (maybe a lone boar) got downwind of us and spooked. We had to walk several hundred yards across the field one direction, then change direction and make a loop to get wind right for where we expected the pigs to come out.
There is a ravine that lets the pigs get pretty far out into the field before they pop up, and then it seems like they just appear out of the earth. The sounder popped up, the wind was good, and we started our stalk. Started at about 300 yards and stalked up to 85-90. We got set up, got a shooting plan, did a countdown and started hammering.
If y'all have been watching the Night Hunting forum then you probably know about my thermal issue. Basically I was having to shoot using my old digital night vision last night since my Thermal is going back to the dealer and I am waiting on a replacement. Igor was shooting with thermal. I was shooting my 6.5 Grendel suppressed. He was shooting an AR-10 in 308, unsuppressed. Every time he uncorked that cannon it was blanking out my digital NV for a second or so. Even so, we did pretty good I think. We had 5 dead laying in the field, 2 of them nice big pigs. Probably some more dead in the tall grass to the north but we didn't go prowling around looking. Out of maybe 8 adults in the sounder we got 4 for sure and I know we had solid hits on a couple more.
I really enjoyed hunting with Igor, but he is gonna have to send a bribe to ATF to speed up the approval of his form-4 though. Shooting unsuppressed stalking hogs is just uncivilized.
He knows I was going to give him some grief about that. I had a couple other friends sitting on a different field 2 1/2 miles away. They said they could hear us when we opened up. Well, they could hear Igor, for sure.
One pig with a heart girth measurement of 47 1/2", another with 40". Chart says those measurements give weights of 275 and 200 respectively.
Four different pictures here.
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129876.jpg
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129877.jpg
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129878.jpg
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129879.jpg
We got out in the field about 10 or so. The wind gave us fits. It kept switching back and forth, changing direction. One pretty decent pig (maybe a lone boar) got downwind of us and spooked. We had to walk several hundred yards across the field one direction, then change direction and make a loop to get wind right for where we expected the pigs to come out.
There is a ravine that lets the pigs get pretty far out into the field before they pop up, and then it seems like they just appear out of the earth. The sounder popped up, the wind was good, and we started our stalk. Started at about 300 yards and stalked up to 85-90. We got set up, got a shooting plan, did a countdown and started hammering.
If y'all have been watching the Night Hunting forum then you probably know about my thermal issue. Basically I was having to shoot using my old digital night vision last night since my Thermal is going back to the dealer and I am waiting on a replacement. Igor was shooting with thermal. I was shooting my 6.5 Grendel suppressed. He was shooting an AR-10 in 308, unsuppressed. Every time he uncorked that cannon it was blanking out my digital NV for a second or so. Even so, we did pretty good I think. We had 5 dead laying in the field, 2 of them nice big pigs. Probably some more dead in the tall grass to the north but we didn't go prowling around looking. Out of maybe 8 adults in the sounder we got 4 for sure and I know we had solid hits on a couple more.
I really enjoyed hunting with Igor, but he is gonna have to send a bribe to ATF to speed up the approval of his form-4 though. Shooting unsuppressed stalking hogs is just uncivilized.
One pig with a heart girth measurement of 47 1/2", another with 40". Chart says those measurements give weights of 275 and 200 respectively.
Four different pictures here.
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129876.jpg
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129877.jpg
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129878.jpg
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/129879.jpg