Had been out after a group of 500 pound boars the last two weeks in my backyard, always showing up real late at night on the game cams around 4-5 AM, finally started picking them up right after midnight.
A couple of more unsuccessful hunts staking them out and finally connected with one solid hit bowling him over but somehow he made it into the woods 15 feet away and disappeared, found where he bedded down that night with blood all over but was gone the next day when I discovered the bed about 100 yards in the thick stuff.
So, planned a hunt for the monster boars last night and spread out some extra bait to attact and anchor them in one of the few open spaces I have on the property on a mile long powerline cut.
Cruised out there last night at 10PM in the Honda Pioneer with the FLIR M-324XP Pan/Tilt on and saw some hot spots on the bait from 3/4 mile away when approaching. Shut down the UTV and hiked up a half a mile and ID two hogs.
Having the remote controlled thermal in the vehicle really set this one up for us.
I am working on getting a new FLIR M-200 BOSON pan/tilt for the new UTV setup with auxillary battery so I'll have two mobile thermal equipped hunting stands.
Got to 125 yards and layed down with the FLIR T-70 on my Grendel 10" SBR with handloaded Barnes 100 grain TSX, buddy had his SIG 716 7.62X51mm with handloaded 150 grain SPs.
1 - 2 -3 -> BLAM BLAM, both boar hogs DRT and dropped in their tracks...
Dressed them out and found my Barnes 100 grain TSX stuck in the neck vertebrae:
Barnes 100 grain TSX weighed after recovery 99.9 grains - outstanding terminal performance again!
Also recovered buddies 150 grain .308 copper jacket with some lead in it weighing 42.5 grains......
Freezers totally filled up now!/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif
Here is what it looks like during the day when it all went down.....