Saturday morning in Ruskin, FL, I met up with my hunting partner for a morning hunt. He had invited another to go also.
When he broke into clearing to sit his stand. a six point was in the field. He watched it cross the field and shot it before it left the field. Now that was about 10 minutes after I got on my stand.
About 30 minutes later, my buddy had not left his field so as not to disturb us, two pigs I thought were 100+ came to the feeder I was sitting. I am left handed. The stand is set for a right handed person to shoot in direct of feeder. As the pigs crossed behind a tree, I shifted my 6.5x55 Savage 110 to my right shoulder. The first pig started to act like he had busted me. I shot just as they bolted.
When I started looking, I found the hog about 35 yards into woods, the swede had done in both lungs, quite a killing shot using remington corelok bullets. We put it on a scale which bootomed at 200 lbs. We figure at least 225lb. It was a bar, plenty of fat on body for sausage. The deer was good sized for Florida deer. We were done by 0730.
