Nix on going this evening. Storm clouds moving in, wind swirling. Not a good set up. Perhaps tomorrow.
What 160 bullet were you trying out? The tip color, and jacket color, makes me think it's the Federal Trophy Bonded Tip.
The corn in the hole also minimizes the spread of the destruction. We have had them get so deep, that you couldn’t see the pigs inside it.
The most effective way I have had them stick around is to see them come in using a cellular game camera.
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Then call the controller I made and drop the gates.
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They will run around for awhile then realize there is no way out. At that point they will wait on you to get there.
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Then you get them all.
If your feed store carries 'cracked corn' you can feed that also. It takes them much longer to pick that up...but they will gladly hang around (if not disturbed) until the last piece is hoovered up.
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I've made some good shots, but tonight wasn't one of them.
A two hundred yard rocky belly-crawl out in the Seguin area wheat field. 7 pigs feeding at 250yds out. I rested on my guide's shoulder(I should have just shot offhand). By the time we got in synch and stopped breathing at the same time....the pigs got spooky and started trotting back towards the hole in the fence. The big black one was moving pretty slow, so I took a poke at his ear-hole with my Ruger American Ranch 7.62x39. Two more Hail Mary's as he ran for the fence.
We looked for blood, but didnt expect to find any, and didnt.
Sorry Texans, I didnt help you with your hog problems, but I durn sure tried! Twice!
We're heading for Illinois tomorrow so good luck.
We drove home yesterday. It was a 16hr drive, we arrived about midnight.
We love tx. It is filled with our kind of people.
I didnt represent very well. Looking back, second guessing, any idiot greenhorn should have instinctively assumed a kneeling position for the shot. When my guide offered his shoulder, I said duuuh... okay.I'm glad you at least got to pull the trigger. That hog has probably never been shot at by a hunter from Illinois.
Wish I was a little closer to help you out with that hog situation. Have a few tricks up my sleeve having dealt with them since I was a kid here in Australia. I've recently put up some footage on YouTube showing a little of what we do. Would live it if you checked it out.
Watch "Wild Pigs. Boars. Eradication using. Spotter Plane. Benelli M2" on YouTube
If you're near the San Antonio area again and using 7.62X39mm for hunting I'll happily loan you a rifle and give you ammo to use much more suitable for taking 250 yard shots at game like feral hogs (and Axis deer, and whitetail deer, etc) within the limits of your recoil tolerance (starting with .243 Winchester with Norma ammo loaded with 100 grain Oryx bullets as the lowest recoil option, and topping out with 9.3X62mm loaded with 255 grain Geco Plus bullets, with options in between).We drove home yesterday. It was a 16hr drive, we arrived about midnight.
We love tx. It is filled with our kind of people.
That's very generous of you. Thanks.If you're near the San Antonio area again and using 7.62X39mm for hunting I'll happily loan you a rifle and give you ammo to use much more suitable for taking 250 yard shots at game like feral hogs (and Axis deer, and whitetail deer, etc) within the limits of your recoil tolerance (starting with .243 Winchester with Norma ammo loaded with 100 grain Oryx bullets as the lowest recoil option, and topping out with 9.3X62mm loaded with 255 grain Geco Plus bullets, with options in between).
We all get busted now and then. Dixie Tri-Ball on one small pig would have been very interesting....just sayin'.
OUCHYes, but it's a punishing round to shoot on my end too .....so if I'm going to risk having my retinas detached or fillings knocked out of my teeth..I want to have several pigs close together and make it worth my while.
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