Erratic 200# Texas Boar

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  • 81police
    Warrior
    • Feb 2013
    • 286

    Erratic 200# Texas Boar

    It's one thing to get on a hog that's calm and feeding, it's another trying to get on a hog that's either on the trail of a hot sow or just flat out cruisin. Such was the case of this boar. Hunting a stretch of the Colorado River in west Texas, I spotted him 260+ yards down river cruisin the banks. As I got setup the pig stopped very infrequently, only for a brief moment, and usually was behind cover. I felt the effects of a dump of adrenaline as I watched this boar close the distance to approx. 160-175 yards and make a momentary pause. I lined up on his shoulder and knowingly jerked the trigger . I shot under the pig!

    He ran into cover but stopped and began blowing, trying to load his senses with information about what to do next as the suppressed shot wasn't likely what he was accustomed to hearing. He instantly broke cover and was speeding flat out down a trail. I had a small window and made a shot I don't typically recommend, but with the penetration I've seen from Barnes bullets, I took a "texas heart shot". I heard a hard "THUMP" as the bullet impacted just beside the testicles. The 120 TTSX buried itself deep into the boar and he instantly collapsed on the spot.

    He taped out to 200lbs, had a respectable cutter on one side, but surprisingly never grew a cutter on the other side. I've seen plenty of broken cutters, but this one was never there (as pictured).



    John 11:25-26
  • 81police
    Warrior
    • Feb 2013
    • 286

    #2


    John 11:25-26

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    • Double Naught Spy
      Chieftain
      • Sep 2013
      • 2560

      #3
      Very well done!

      I would guess that the cutter was completely lost, potentially broken, and then abscessed out, then healed over. While the means of loss isn't obvious in the photo and I am only speculating on that, the forward side wear on the adult whetter would indicate that there had been a corresponding cutter there at some point in the past. You can see the band of enamel on the top and bottom of that wear face with what would have been covered yellower dentin underneath, now exposed between the enamel bands
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      • Hunter307
        Bloodstained
        • Jan 2017
        • 77

        #4
        Recover the bullet?? Would be interesting to know how far it penetrated and what it looked like.

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        • 81police
          Warrior
          • Feb 2013
          • 286

          #5
          Originally posted by Double Naught Spy View Post
          Very well done!

          I would guess that the cutter was completely lost, potentially broken, and then abscessed out, then healed over. While the means of loss isn't obvious in the photo and I am only speculating on that, the forward side wear on the adult whetter would indicate that there had been a corresponding cutter there at some point in the past. You can see the band of enamel on the top and bottom of that wear face with what would have been covered yellower dentin underneath, now exposed between the enamel bands
          Excellent observations Brian, I never considered that, but it makes sense now.
          John 11:25-26

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          • BluntForceTrauma
            Administrator
            • Feb 2011
            • 3897

            #6
            Cool report. Thanks!
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