A little off-season fun

[Wildfowler]

What’s your biggest hog so far?

Biggest Ever was this one. 364 lbs.

Evidently someone had cut the nuts off this one and released it. Doing so makes them grow even larger. (The things rednecks do for fun??!!)



This year was a big sow that to have been 250. I didn’t measure this one but it was big.

I think that rifle is over 46” long for reference.

[Wildfowler]

This was the big one.

[novacaine]

Dammit Boy............what impresses me is that you got him in the back of the truck!!!!

[Wildfowler]

Dammit Boy............what impresses me is that you got him in the back of the truck!!!!

Sheeeeit. That’s just his head. Hahah

That thing ran about 50 yards and fell into a ravine that was about 25 feet deep and narrow enough that I could darn near jump across.

I used the tape measure weight estimate on him and cut his head off.

[Wildfowler]

There’s a large sounder in an irrigated soybean field last night. Beans are about knee high and we are driving to get closer to them into a stiff wind. We’re confident they will not hear us approach.

Problem is there is a lone boar by itself and the rest of the hogs are essentially in one large group another 250 yards upwind of that one.

We decided that because we had such a nice wind to shoot the first hog with my 9mm carbine to avoid spooking the rest of the hogs.

The scope currently on my 9mm rifle currently has no way to video, but you can imagine a 147 grain hollow point to the head might result in a quick trip to the ground.

It did and that one went down like a hammer and the rest of the hogs only moved slightly from the shot and commotion. The plan worked.

A short walk back to the truck to switch out rifles back to my 308 for the larger group.

My first thre shots in video were all hits. I watched the video several times and think I saw four more go down during the melee. I didn’t hear a bullet hit every time I pulled the trigger but there were a lot of audIble hits last night.

https://youtu.be/DJeYDbdQEoc

[donia]

I bet there are times that the back of your truck staaaaaaaank!

[Duck Engr]

There’s a large sounder in an irrigated soybean field last night. Beans are about knee high and we are driving to get closer to them into a stiff wind. We’re confident they will not hear us approach.

Problem is there is a lone boar by itself and the rest of the hogs are essentially in one large group another 250 yards upwind of that one.

We decided that because we had such a nice wind to shoot the first hog with my 9mm carbine to avoid spooking the rest of the hogs.

The scope currently on my 9mm rifle currently has no way to video, but you can imagine a 147 grain hollow point to the head might result in a quick trip to the ground.

It did and that one went down like a hammer and the rest of the hogs only moved slightly from the shot and commotion. The plan worked.

A short walk back to the truck to switch out rifles back to my 308 for the larger group.

My first thre shots in video were all hits. I watched the video several times and think I saw four more go down during the melee. I didn’t hear a bullet hit every time I pulled the trigger but there were a lot of audIble hits last night.

https://youtu.be/DJeYDbdQEoc

Looks like a whooooole lotta fun!

[mshunter77]

There’s a large sounder in an irrigated soybean field last night. Beans are about knee high and we are driving to get closer to them into a stiff wind. We’re confident they will not hear us approach.

Problem is there is a lone boar by itself and the rest of the hogs are essentially in one large group another 250 yards upwind of that one.

We decided that because we had such a nice wind to shoot the first hog with my 9mm carbine to avoid spooking the rest of the hogs.

The scope currently on my 9mm rifle currently has no way to video, but you can imagine a 147 grain hollow point to the head might result in a quick trip to the ground.

It did and that one went down like a hammer and the rest of the hogs only moved slightly from the shot and commotion. The plan worked.

A short walk back to the truck to switch out rifles back to my 308 for the larger group.

My first thre shots in video were all hits. I watched the video several times and think I saw four more go down during the melee. I didn’t hear a bullet hit every time I pulled the trigger but there were a lot of audIble hits last night.

https://youtu.be/DJeYDbdQEoc

Man that’s a lot of bacon in that video.

[Wildfowler]

I was running through my hog route tonight and I spotted some hogs coming out of a standing corn field headed towards the ditch to get some water.

I let a couple of them have it.

https://youtu.be/xqjLj36aMbE

[Wildfowler]

https://youtu.be/2AaPph6PWQE

Got some fresh damage in standing corn and a heavy rain provided some action last night.

We wound up patrolling this same area a time or two and killed a total of four with these three being memorialized on film.

The first episode is me filming my buddy shooting two hogs while standing behind him with my Flir Breach.

Then lastly, me shooting a lone boar in the same ditch as I shot two hogs in earlier this week.

[Wildfowler]

I spotted some hogs in a Turnrow alongside a Cottonfield last night. Two of them had found something in the road that was very enticing to them and they were rolling in it. Maybe it was some spilled fuel or leaked out hydraulic fluid or who knows what?

Regrettably I did not connect with the second one rolling but did get a total of three, including chasing one of them down through the Cottonfield.

It looks like someone needs some practice shooting with his pistol shooting in the dark??

Hahahaha

So after Concluding this portion of the adventure, located just around the bend was the worlds smallest coyote. I’ve never shot a coyote puppy before and I had no idea this thing was this small. I’ve always said that thermal does not always give you proper depth and scale and was very surprised to see a coyote the size of my size 13 shoe. Yikes.

https://youtu.be/SOpYuOqbaMs

[DoublePslayer]

I would imagine it is pretty hard to shoot a pistol at night with thermal gear. It looks like the suppressor pretty much covers up the sights to me. Also, do you catch any grief from the yuppie crowd on Youtube for these videos? I expect some of them view the coup de grace to be a little much. I say kill them all.

[teul2]

Well done sir.
I catch myself watching your in rifle footage and wanting to pull the rifle to a shot I think I can make. It's quite involving. I like it.

[Wildfowler]

I would imagine it is pretty hard to shoot a pistol at night with thermal gear. It looks like the suppressor pretty much covers up the sights to me. Also, do you catch any grief from the yuppie crowd on Youtube for these videos? I expect some of them view the coup de grace to be a little much. I say kill them all.

If I can stop and aim, I can see the rear sight notch but I really lose focus of anything in front of that. During a normal daytime usage I can looks through the suppressor to see the front sight. But that obviously won’t work with this arrangement.

It’s basically instinctive shooting. I can generally cap them when I’m standing right over them, but when it jumps up and runs off like this when did that’s a whole new element. Hahahahaha

I don’t think I have enough viewers of my channel to have any problems out of anyone? I do read the comments that occasionally get posted and I’ve never seen anything negative or inflammatory.

Curiously, I have a bunch of Russians subscribers. At least I think they’re Russian? They’ve got strange names.

[Wildfowler]

Well done sir.
I catch myself watching your in rifle footage and wanting to pull the rifle to a shot I think I can make. It's quite involving. I like it.

This is so much fun for me. Get to ride around all night long looking at the monitor on my dashboard and when I see some I get to jump out and go walk right up to them wearing the helmet and try and blast as many as possible.

The Action is great and the driving around cures the boredom of not seeing anything.

I remember the first running shot on hogs I made. It was a foggy morning and I went to go check the corn feeder before work because they had been coming to it first thing in the morning and I killed three on the feeder, that morning.

Walking back to the truck, the fog really thickened up and I heard a car coming on the highway. I looked up and couldn’t see the car but I saw two black objects halfway between the highway and my position, the approaching car cost them to run towards me.

They were basically running parallel to the Turnrow I was walking out on through a hipped up field which had been rained on recently and was very soft. Luckily the high hips and soft, sloppy conditions slowed their ability to to run greatly and I distinctly remember thinking to myself “I can do this” when they got within range.

They were about 75 yards away and when they first one got perpendicular to me I put the crosshairs out on his nose, continuing to swing through just like I was shooting a dove with my shotgun and pulled the trigger. He tumbled immediately to the ground. The second one was right behind him and I did exact same thing and dang near dropped him right on top of his buddy.

It’s not easy. But it’s not as hard as you think. I use a tripod which helps keep me steady. I wouldn’t say I’m aiming as much as I am trying to keep the horizontal Crosshair in the same plane as the hog.

Come go with me some time Joel.