Author Topic: bad experience hog hunting have a confession (Read 1082 times)

howie1968 · « **on:** March 09, 2004, 02:48:57 AM »

Last night me and my 8 yr old daughter jasmine went on a quick hunt at the lease. i have some holes baited up with sweet feed and the pigs are everywhere i knew id see a pig. without thinking i grabbed my 270 instead of my trusty old NEF 45-70 which i have become dependant on my load was 150 gr nosler partitions. i have been hunting this one big boar i never have seen him but seen his track he was impressive at about 800 pm i heard a light grunt and i turned on my nightblaster light and seen him he was slightly angling away so i rushed the shot and placed the crosshairs behind his shoulders and squeezed the trigger. he dropped in his tracks. silly me i was celebrating waking jasmine up in the stand and said daddy shot a pig! as i did this he started movig i cycled the bolt on my gun knocked my cord loose from my light and i watched him run in circles in front of me and take off. we started to track him i fiound good fresh lung blood real foamy it was everywhere to end the story i tracked and looked til 2 am i finally lost the blood trail and admitted defeat. i honestly believe if i had the 45-70 i would have recovered my pig ive tried every caliber imaginable on pigs some i am not proud to admit, sometimes even being a little cocky while doing so I have killed many pigs more than i care to even share but in the last year i have lost 2 pigs due to rushed shots not following through and a sort of cockiness, forgetting that pigs are super tough animals i believe i have learned my lesson on lesser calibers for pigs they work just not for me i am goijg to stick to my 45-70 as i have a lot of trust in her. thanks for all of the advice you fine gentleman have given me it was all well taken good hunting

HWooldridge · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2004, 03:38:12 AM »

Sounds like you busted him pretty good but sometimes they get up and run off. I have had it happen with deer and hogs. I prefer the 45-70 also but that 270 killed him. I just hope you can find that old man and at least save the head if the rest spoils.

howie1968 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2004, 04:03:21 AM »

i am goinjg back to look for him ill look for buzzards as it is heating up i would have loved to have pork chopes for breakfast but if i can find the head that will be great i could see the tusks at 50 yards through the scope so i know he was big his body was impressive he was like the other big one i killed except he had more white around his shoulders looks like they have hampshire in them or something i will take the 45-70 this time i have always taken neck shots with the 270 and i had the oppurtunity to do so i just was impatient i gues ill learn that with age.

willis5 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2004, 02:39:45 PM »

I know the sick feeling. Good luck finding him.

MATLOCK12C · « **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2004, 11:14:33 AM »

:oops: It happens to the best of us.

huntsman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2004, 02:41:28 AM »

Howie,

A 270 bullet behind the shoulder is quite lethal, even if the kill isn't instantaneous. I would bet my favorite pair of jeans that he is lying within 50 yards of where you lost the blood trail. On a good lung hit like that, when the heavy bleeding stops they are nearly finished. I have found several deer that way. Even if it is too late for a full mount, you could at least maybe do a European skull mount with the impressive tusks.