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Ok I finally got all these photos posted so here's the stories to go with them.
This was one of the neatest hog hunts I've ever been on!!! And I love it when a years worth of planning training (my dog) and hard work come together. In any case let me just tell you how this whole hunt got started in the firstb place.
On march 25th I woke up in a recovery room at the hospital after undergoing surgey for sinus and other nasal problems. I am offically on sick list for 3 weeks and unable to report for duty until the 13th of April. i sure hate to waste an oportunity like this on sitting at home recovering.
When I awoke from the general anestetic I remember talking to some one about hog hunting. I don't know if I was dreaming or talking to the recovery nurse. But hogs dogs and doubles were definatley on my mind.
So three days after surgery I packed up the truck, trailer the dog and Tim and away we went.
On the 4th morning I checked a water tank and found some fresh tracks from a good sized boar. I took my dog (Mbwa Kubwa Sana) kubi for short, and proceeded to scour the brushy hills above the water. About 2 miles into the hunt Kubi started to get "scenty" and took off into the next draw over, about 800yds ahead I heard him sound off in his sighting bark.
I'll just digress a little and tell you about my dog. he is a German hunting terrior also known as a Jadgterrior. When cold trailing he runs silently when he see's a pig he'll sound off with a baying yap. But he will only trail hogs he won't yap or trail deer. So when he sounds off things are getting ready to happen. I have also trained him to blood trail and his score on found wounded critters is about 95% at current count. In any case whats got me so proud is that this is the first trip where he's actually bayed up on live non wounded hogs he has figured out how to go out and find them and bring them back to daddy or bay and harass them untill I can get there. the boy is making me proud!!!!!
So back to the story.........
I hear Kubi light up in the next draw over and am a little worried because he's still a young dog with out much live hog experience. So I stop and listen thinking I'm going to have to haul my fat just got out of surgery got a raging head ache butt over there post haste and shot this hog before he kills kubi.
Well when I stop I notice that the dog is on the move and he's coming my way. So I get on a piece of high ground and sure enough here comes a nice little boar loping along and coming straight to me and kubi is about 20 feet behind him just kinda keeping pace and baying and keeping his distance but staying agressive enough to keep the hog moving.
I let the hog get to about 50 yards and when he is broad side I bring the big .470 double to my shoulder put the front sight on his eye and press the front trigger. With a gratifying roar the big Nitro releases a 500gr barnes X towards the the hogs vitals. when I come out of recoil the hog is still running undisturbed along his escape path so I let the front bead settle into it's home low in the shallow V express sight and swing the big double through the hog untill the front bead touches the hogs nose and press the rear trigger.
Once again I am rewarded with a gratifying roar and healthy shove rearward as the 97grains of H4350 light off and sends the projectile towards the side passing hog. Once again when I come out of recoil the hog seems unphased and is running away now into the brush and over the next ridge line at about 80 yards.
I flip the locking lever over and snap the double open the ejectors ping and two smoking brass hulks sail over my right shoulder I dunk two more cigar sized projectiles into the breaches and they slide home with a deep reassuring "THUNK". I close the rifle and start running my fat butt up the hill to arrainge for another shot. when I notice that the hog is sagging getting closer to the ground he then sits down and falls over just about the time Kubi catches him and starts tugging at his rear like a terrior on a knotted sock. The hog is dead.
Upon closer inspection I find two .475 Diameter holes exactley behind the shoulder about 3" apart in a verticle spread. Both rounds passed through the hog like a hot knife through butter.
After some picture taking and dog petting and whooping and hollering I back tracked the the hog. The soft muddy ground told no lies as it clearly showed two big splash marks in the ground spaced about 15 feet apart each on had a V spray of blood where the big X bullets passed through the hog and thuded into the earth.
God it's good to be alive!!!
This was one of the neatest hog hunts I've ever been on!!! And I love it when a years worth of planning training (my dog) and hard work come together. In any case let me just tell you how this whole hunt got started in the firstb place.
On march 25th I woke up in a recovery room at the hospital after undergoing surgey for sinus and other nasal problems. I am offically on sick list for 3 weeks and unable to report for duty until the 13th of April. i sure hate to waste an oportunity like this on sitting at home recovering.
When I awoke from the general anestetic I remember talking to some one about hog hunting. I don't know if I was dreaming or talking to the recovery nurse. But hogs dogs and doubles were definatley on my mind.
So three days after surgery I packed up the truck, trailer the dog and Tim and away we went.
On the 4th morning I checked a water tank and found some fresh tracks from a good sized boar. I took my dog (Mbwa Kubwa Sana) kubi for short, and proceeded to scour the brushy hills above the water. About 2 miles into the hunt Kubi started to get "scenty" and took off into the next draw over, about 800yds ahead I heard him sound off in his sighting bark.
I'll just digress a little and tell you about my dog. he is a German hunting terrior also known as a Jadgterrior. When cold trailing he runs silently when he see's a pig he'll sound off with a baying yap. But he will only trail hogs he won't yap or trail deer. So when he sounds off things are getting ready to happen. I have also trained him to blood trail and his score on found wounded critters is about 95% at current count. In any case whats got me so proud is that this is the first trip where he's actually bayed up on live non wounded hogs he has figured out how to go out and find them and bring them back to daddy or bay and harass them untill I can get there.
the boy is making me proud!!!!!So back to the story.........
I hear Kubi light up in the next draw over and am a little worried because he's still a young dog with out much live hog experience. So I stop and listen thinking I'm going to have to haul my fat just got out of surgery got a raging head ache butt over there post haste and shot this hog before he kills kubi.
Well when I stop I notice that the dog is on the move and he's coming my way. So I get on a piece of high ground and sure enough here comes a nice little boar loping along and coming straight to me and kubi is about 20 feet behind him just kinda keeping pace and baying and keeping his distance but staying agressive enough to keep the hog moving.
I let the hog get to about 50 yards and when he is broad side I bring the big .470 double to my shoulder put the front sight on his eye and press the front trigger. With a gratifying roar the big Nitro releases a 500gr barnes X towards the the hogs vitals. when I come out of recoil the hog is still running undisturbed along his escape path so I let the front bead settle into it's home low in the shallow V express sight and swing the big double through the hog untill the front bead touches the hogs nose and press the rear trigger.
Once again I am rewarded with a gratifying roar and healthy shove rearward as the 97grains of H4350 light off and sends the projectile towards the side passing hog. Once again when I come out of recoil the hog seems unphased and is running away now into the brush and over the next ridge line at about 80 yards.
I flip the locking lever over and snap the double open the ejectors ping and two smoking brass hulks sail over my right shoulder I dunk two more cigar sized projectiles into the breaches and they slide home with a deep reassuring "THUNK". I close the rifle and start running my fat butt up the hill to arrainge for another shot. when I notice that the hog is sagging getting closer to the ground he then sits down and falls over just about the time Kubi catches him and starts tugging at his rear like a terrior on a knotted sock. The hog is dead.
Upon closer inspection I find two .475 Diameter holes exactley behind the shoulder about 3" apart in a verticle spread. Both rounds passed through the hog like a hot knife through butter.
After some picture taking and dog petting and whooping and hollering I back tracked the the hog. The soft muddy ground told no lies as it clearly showed two big splash marks in the ground spaced about 15 feet apart each on had a V spray of blood where the big X bullets passed through the hog and thuded into the earth.
God it's good to be alive!!!
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Man you really did not want him to get away!!!
