Flintknapper
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That's an excellent pig Paul. Looks like good shot placement as well. Good job Sir!
That's an excellent pig Paul. Looks like good shot placement as well. Good job Sir!
^^^^^^^^^ That's quite a trio of pigs. Very nice 'cutters' on the middle one. Love the fluted barrel on your rifle.
Keep after them, we need all the help we can get in this State.
Checked one my cameras yesterday and was reminded they are making hogs....faster than we can trim their numbers.
They are the mammalian equivalent of Fire Ants....(here to stay and growing in numbers).
Tannerite!
Actually, I have no idea which of the two scenarios you presented would be more effective, but I'd probably go with the SOCOM.
Flint, in the interest of reducing the population, if you only have one shot, is it better to take a sow?
Flint... I'm curious why you let the shoat go? They grow up to be hogs!
Yes, they do grow up...no arguing that.
"Why" did I let it go? I don't know. Maybe I felt a bit of compassion for it. It had been laying there all night long...alone. I am quite surprised Coyotes didn't find it overnight. Normally I would not give any hog a reprieve as I consider all of them destructive vermin.
But something inside of me was telling me to just let this one go. Not one to question such visceral feelings...I walked the piglet over to the brush line and put it down. It ran like it's tail had caught fire and after 15-20 yds. I could no longer see it.
I have little doubt we will meet again...and in that day the outcome will likely be different, but today was not that day.
Flint.
Yes, they do grow up...no arguing that.
"Why" did I let it go? I don't know. Maybe I felt a bit of compassion for it. It had been laying there all night long...alone. I am quite surprised Coyotes didn't find it overnight. Normally I would not give any hog a reprieve as I consider all of them destructive vermin.
But something inside of me was telling me to just let this one go. Not one to question such visceral feelings...I walked the piglet over to the brush line and put it down. It ran like it's tail had caught fire and after 15-20 yds. I could no longer see it.
I have little doubt we will meet again...and in that day the outcome will likely be different, but today was not that day.
Flint.
Flint,
I've been wondering how you decided on the .458 SOCOM for your hog gun - the two most obvious competitors to that caliber when building a big bore AR are the .450 Bushmaster and the .50 Beowulf. (I'm guessing you're going to tell me bullet selection?... Just something I've been trying to figure out myself and was wondering what swayed you your direction) thanks!