I went to the lease this weekend for some preseason choring and some hog hunting. It had rained a lot before we got there and the hogs were present and active. We got there around midnite friday, put soured corn out in three different places and hit the sack around 1:30 am. Got up at 5:30 am and watched said baited spots till 9 or so and went back to the cabin to build a bigger cabin by framing in the front of the cabin to double it's size. Chore done we went out to the baited spots. I was sitting there enjoying the nice weather when a brown sow sticks her head out of the oak brush and sniffs the soured corn 20 or so feet from her. A 200 pound sow she steps out of the brush, turns broadside and stops, I put the dot on her chest just behind the shoulder and fire. She must have started moving as I fired because the bullet hit her a bit farther back than I wanted and it turns out she was angled more toward me than I thought. She squeals and runs down hill 20 feet makes a sharp U turn and heads back up the little rise toward the brush. I can see something white sticking out of her side about in her middle, I shoot again at her shoulder and she drops. The rifle I was using was a Remington 7400 in 30-06, loaded with 165 gr. Coreloks on top of 57.0 grs. of AA4350 so I had no problem getting this shot off quickly. I really like Mueller's 2x7 scope reticle also, very fast. I get the truck and I tied her to the trailer hitch and was dragging her to the hanging tree when another hog jumps out in the road in front of me. I turn the truck to the right, slick the rifle out the window, push the safety off and shoot. This one is hit directly thru the shoulders and drops. This pig weighs around 75 pounds so I put it in the back of the truck. I take them to camp, hang them with tie down straps and gut them. Then I went inside and took a snooze. At 10pm I get up and go to pick my hunting partner up. As I near his stand I hear a shot, a pig squeal and can see his rifle mounted spotlight beam. I point my truck in that direction and can see a good sized hog moving slowly then hear another shot, he drops. I drive up to him with my headlights lighting up the scene, I get out with my rifle and he screams while trying to get up in my direction, very ugly actually so I shoot him in the head. The first pig was actually hit a couple inches behind the shoulder with the first shot and what I saw hanging out of her was a piece of diaphram about 5 inches around. She didn't need the second shot that virtually destroyed both shoulders. The boar Steve got was hit in the jaw with the first shot, the second barely got enough of the spine behind the shoulder blade to stun the pig and my bullet was dead on in the pigs ear. This pig had some really big teeth and weighed at least 250 pounds.
