Kizmo
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That Georgia hunter would, of course, be me.
The hogs have gone crazy at my place. With the cold weather, they have been assaulting every hay wagon on the place. Early mornings have become guaranteed hog kills. I've killed over 30 hogs on that one place since Christmas.
Last Thursday I pulled up to the south gate and headed north into the wind. I was packing my scoped .454 on a shoulder rig and my .454 Toklat on a belt rig on the other side. Kinda balances you out. I hadn't gone 100 yards when I spied a sow and about a half dozen piglets at 90 yards. As I was slipping up on them, the group grew into 4 sows with about two dozen piglets. Because of the crunchy leaves and briars I could only get to within 50 yards of them. I leveled the crosshairs on the biggest sow and pulled the trigger. The usual pandemonium erupted, and the other hogs ran circling to my left, so I pivoted and kept the lead flying. I hit two of the sows on the run as I ran dry. I turned back to the front just in time to see sow #1 12 feet away from me coming straight at me on a dead run.
Everything seemed to slow down. I could clearly see the blood running down her side as I dropped my empty revolver. I even had time to think "Boy, it sure is going to be a lot easier to hit her running at me than running away from me" as I jerked my other smokewagon from the hip holster and fired. My first shot hit her in the back at about 6 feet away and my second shot hit her in the top of the head at 2 feet away and piled her up.
One of the others I had hit was straggling along at about 35 yards, and I popped another into her for good measure.
I found one other blood trail that headed into "Hog Central" ( the myrtle and briar thicket where they all come from), so I figure at least one of the other sows headed to that big slop trough in the sky.
Thank you, Rudi, for posting that clip of the French hunter getting charged by a boar. I had watched that a couple of times the day before, and had determined never to let that happen to me. I had also watched a video of Ed McGivern and Bill Jordan doing exhibitions the night before. Little did I know, I was studying for a test the next day! Someone who knows a lot more about hog hunting than me once posted on here that a sow with piglets is a lot more likely to charge you than a boar. Brother, I believe it.
The hogs have gone crazy at my place. With the cold weather, they have been assaulting every hay wagon on the place. Early mornings have become guaranteed hog kills. I've killed over 30 hogs on that one place since Christmas.
Last Thursday I pulled up to the south gate and headed north into the wind. I was packing my scoped .454 on a shoulder rig and my .454 Toklat on a belt rig on the other side. Kinda balances you out. I hadn't gone 100 yards when I spied a sow and about a half dozen piglets at 90 yards. As I was slipping up on them, the group grew into 4 sows with about two dozen piglets. Because of the crunchy leaves and briars I could only get to within 50 yards of them. I leveled the crosshairs on the biggest sow and pulled the trigger. The usual pandemonium erupted, and the other hogs ran circling to my left, so I pivoted and kept the lead flying. I hit two of the sows on the run as I ran dry. I turned back to the front just in time to see sow #1 12 feet away from me coming straight at me on a dead run.
Everything seemed to slow down. I could clearly see the blood running down her side as I dropped my empty revolver. I even had time to think "Boy, it sure is going to be a lot easier to hit her running at me than running away from me" as I jerked my other smokewagon from the hip holster and fired. My first shot hit her in the back at about 6 feet away and my second shot hit her in the top of the head at 2 feet away and piled her up.
One of the others I had hit was straggling along at about 35 yards, and I popped another into her for good measure.
I found one other blood trail that headed into "Hog Central" ( the myrtle and briar thicket where they all come from), so I figure at least one of the other sows headed to that big slop trough in the sky.
Thank you, Rudi, for posting that clip of the French hunter getting charged by a boar. I had watched that a couple of times the day before, and had determined never to let that happen to me. I had also watched a video of Ed McGivern and Bill Jordan doing exhibitions the night before. Little did I know, I was studying for a test the next day! Someone who knows a lot more about hog hunting than me once posted on here that a sow with piglets is a lot more likely to charge you than a boar. Brother, I believe it.
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