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Offline Racer X

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Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« on: November 04, 2008, 01:39:45 PM »
I sat for 4 hours in the stand Saturday afternoon. Instead of taking my scoped Guide Gun as I usually do, I had my Super Blackhawk Hunter in 45 Colt. I hunt in an area where you are as likely to see hogs as deer. At about 6:45 pm, some hogs came through. At first, I was not sure if it was black bear or hogs, but when they began to grunt, I knew they were hogs. I tried to get a good sight picture but it was getting dark and I could not see my sights. Not wanting to track a wounded hog at night, I did not take a shot. Who knows...one of the hogs might have dropped on the spot, but then again, it probably would have run off. The load was a 250 grain Hornady XTP with 20.3 grains of 2400.

If I had my Guide Gun, I might have taken the shot. If the hogs had only come through 15 minutes earlier, there would have been enough daylight.
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2008, 02:50:41 PM »
So near, and yet so far. You showed good judgment in not taking the shot, but it sure would have been good if you could have seen those sights. I guess that has happened to most of us at one time, or another. It sure feels good to feel that excitement anyway, even if it didn't work out.  Actually, the opposite thing happened to me once. I was on a stand, and could hear deer feeding towards me in the deep oak leaves as they fed on acorns. It kept getting darker, and they kept getting closer but I couldn't see them. When they did appear I watched two does walk by, and then the buck I had been hoping to see came in to view. I got the crosshairs on him, and eased the hammer back, and then I noticed that the light looked kind of funny. The moon was up! I guess it was just a touch past legal shooting time, and I'm pretty happy that I noticed that before I squeezed the trigger. It was the first year I had used a scope, and that Leupold sure worked!  ;D
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2008, 04:04:36 PM »
Hogs, hogs, hogs!  I hunted all day both Saturday and Sunday, only saw one deer about dark on Saturday.  Sunday morning I had a boar about 300 lbs give me a good broadside shot at about 125 yards........I took it with a .243 shooting a 100 gr bullet.  When the bullet hit the hog it sounded like hitting a metal target at the range.  Sunday afternoon I switched guns.  About 4:30 I saw about twenty hogs coming through the brush,  there was another rather large boar with them, I popped him in the butt at a distance of about 75 yards, the old 6.5x55 did it's trick, the bullet went up the backbone and it fell on the spot.   Then about dark I had anoher large boar come in to a mineral block, I popped him between the eyes, he was about 150 yards from my stand.  I hate to shoot them and leave them lay, but this is my attempt to control them..........

I have a place about 30 miles west of Abilene, TX.  I have had this place for almost 30 years, until about four years ago I never seen a hog.  Today we are overrun with them, it is to the point that most landowners are asking hunters to shoot and leave them  laying where they fall.  They destroy fence, crops, and it seems the deer population has decreased since the hogs moved in.  I guess this is a problem we will have to live with, but it sure makes good pistol practice once deer season is over.
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2008, 01:36:40 AM »
Rockbilly, I am right down the road from you, and agree:  I am sick of hogs.  Sick of having them in my food plots, sick of planting grain crops just to have them eat them, sick of bouncing over potholes on the ranch road where they have decided to dig a hole to China, even sick of sick cattle that I strongly suspect had hogs as the source.  About the only good thing I can say is that for whatever reason, they are not as bad here this year - at least this time of year.  Once my wheat gets up a little more, I expect that will change.  But I shoot every one of them I have an opportunity at, which tends to make them retreat for a few days at least.
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2008, 04:05:14 AM »
Fat gray haired old guy will bait and kill hogs for free ! ;D ;D :D
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2008, 04:24:39 AM »
Ken,

Anytime you want to come hunt hogs here, you just come on.  Got a place you can stay in the middle of nowhere with a BBQ joint right down the road.  Bring your own bait ...  8)
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2008, 04:51:05 AM »
Shooting too many hogs is a problem I wish I had.
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2008, 05:10:38 AM »
Most of the people that say that - don't have them.
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2008, 05:35:32 AM »
Quote from: MarkH on November 05, 2008, 05:10:38 AM
Most of the people that say that - don't have them.

He he, so true.  I've spent my entire life in central/south Texas so I've been around pigs a lot.  While they are definitely fun to hunt and excellent on the table (with exceptions), they can also be incredibly destructive.  Plus they breed way too quick and overpopulate in no time.

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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2008, 06:09:24 AM »
my bro-in-laws use to trap them hogs with wire cages and then pop em in the head with 22s. they brought a couple coolers fuull of meat and i really enjoyed some fine meals.

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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2008, 06:26:37 AM »
Hey RacerX

Smart not to take that shot.  Nobody wants to wound an animal, and hogs can be tough to track when hit, sometimes they do not leave a good blood trail.

That XTP load should work fine.  The XTP bullet is my favorite hunting jacketed bullet in .44 / .45 handguns.  It penetrates well, and does not break up.  I have taken a fair number of big game animals using the XTP bullet in 240 to 300 grain weights.  The 300's offer a little better penetration on heavy game.
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2008, 09:45:59 AM »
My advice to anyone who wounds a hog..............let it wander off and die.  A local hunter wounded one and made the mistake of going into a thick creek bottom to recover it.  The hog attack, he couldn't get his rifle in a position to shoot in the thick brush, the hog hit him calf high on his left leg and left a nasty gash about 8-10 inches long and down to the bone. He was lucky he had a friend with him to help him back to the truck and drive him to the hospital, otherwise he might have ended up "hog bait" himself.

There is a group in my area that trying to get a helicopter and a couple of shooters to fly over the area and kill all the hogs they see.  If this comes to pass it will be sometime after the end of deer season.  If this doesn't come off we may be able to allow a few hunters to take hogs during Feburary and March.  I will keep you posted on this.
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2008, 10:47:15 AM »
rockbilly and MarkH:  guys, forget the helicopter stuff.  Just put out a call for help and let us all know where the nearest bed, bbq and beer joint is/are and we'll come help ya with that problem.  What the hay, some of us might even be willin' to travel from the oppressed estada de neu yawk to the free State of Texas just to hunt those hoggies.........
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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2008, 08:43:49 AM »
yeah, there is plenty of help available to help you get rid of those pesky hogs!!!

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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2008, 08:50:37 PM »
Hint... if it's legal, don't shoot the boars.  Shoot the piglets and sows.  If you kill a boar, another will take it's place and breed the same sows, you've only killed one pig.  If you kill a sow you've eliminated all the offspring she would have bore throughout her life-time.  Shoot all the piglets you can and all the sows you can.  Give the pigs to the mexicans...  plenty of them around that would be glad to take them off your hands.  Otherwise, we should organize a GBO mass pig hunt.  Drive them suckers and shoot them as they run by.  Works pretty good here in Germany.


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Re: Passed on Shot at Hogs Sat Evening
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2008, 09:45:49 PM »
Quote from: ccoker on December 01, 2008, 08:43:49 AM
yeah, there is plenty of help available to help you get rid of those pesky hogs!!!



That sounds like fun to me! I'm working on getting a .41 Mag Blackhawk soon.
In the mean time I have an 8mm Mauser that would turn them into ground
pork in nothing flat! :)

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