Got One! 125 Lb Boar

[der Teufel]

I haven't been out seriously hog hunting since before deer season began. I finally got an opportunity last week and off I went! I figured the hogs had been having a pretty easy time of it since I'm about the only one who hunts this property — the landowner gets out on occasion but that had not happened recently. Sure enough, I was in my truck scouting around late Sunday afternoon when, about a half-hour before sundown, I spotted a sounder coming through the fence from a neighbor's property. I stopped and dismounted, and using a tree and some brush for a screen, began sneaking closer. I heard a hog grunt to my left in the brush and I was afraid I'd been busted, but a few of the hogs further away apparently didn't hear the warning. I selected one about 60-70 yards away in the roadway and sat down to shoot. Sitting cross-legged with my elbows on my knees, I aimed for the shoulder and fired. Straight down he went. He kicked a couple of times and then lay still. I took a quick walk around the area in case there were any other hogs who hadn't totally fled the area, but although I heard one or two off in the brush, I didn't see any. I made my way back to the one I'd shot to ensure he was dead, then walked back to my truck. I turned it around and backed to where the hog lay, and then loaded him up. I really like it when they drop right in the middle of the road!

I measured the 'heart girth' and he was about 32.5" around, indicating a weight of 125 pounds.

The property owner came out on Tuesday and we cooked up one of the backstraps in a wine-mustard sauce. Tasty!



The rifle is a Browning A-Bolt II in .308, and the bullet was a Hornady 180 grain BTSP.

 

[Wolfgang james]

Good deal, keep them in check. Up here in the land of snow and ice we don't have em or I'd be makin the bacon too

 

[TimSr]

Congratulations! I'll be going out in April up here in Ohio since I got skunked on deer this year.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Great work, der Teufel. Now go shoot some more.

 

[short barrel]

I've never even seen one, wouldn't know how to hunt them, but it's on my bucket list. Thinking about going south and paying a guide to put me on one. I have visions of a big hog falling to my .45C, but I'm not at all sure I would want to be that close to one.

Good job, sir. Congrats.

 

[Flintknapper]

Good Job Sir!

Thanks for helping reduce their numbers.

 

[gamestalker]

Yum!

We don't have a bunch wild hogs out here, but we do have some, and they are every bit as much hated. Anyway, he knows a guy with an ultra light, actually the cattle rancher, they all have ultra lights out here. So the rancher used radios and flew over them and just guided everyone in. I think they killed like 10 or 12 of them, and a few of them went well over 300 lbs.. I ate a bunch of it, and it was really tasty, good bacon too!

I would lobe to get in on some of that action.

GS

 

[wankerjake]

Nice, I want to go hunt hogs one of these days.

 

[chas08]

Nice job! Judging by the size of him on the tailgate, I'd say your weight estimation was pretty accurate too. There's nothing wrong with a boar that size unless he has that "stink" about him. You'll know when you smell it.