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I went out to St. Jo in north Texas on Tuesday night and saw a bunch of hogs, but they were mostly on the neighbor's property, in with the cattle, and I could not get them to come over to the dark side.
So I went back Wednesday night and hoofed it to the north end of the property where I could see the neighbor's cattle and what looked like a lot of movement. By the time I got closer, I wasn't sure if the motion I had been seeing was hogs or maybe just calves playing, so I kept watching the herd to see if maybe there were some hogs still hiding with the cattle.
Eventually, I spotted one and he came across the fence, but was nearly downwind of me. By the time I swung around to be down wind of him, he had moved off to another location and I approached with a strong cross wind. I thought he would bust me visually. The moon was quite bright. He was preoccupied with rooting and took no notice of me and the wind did a good job of covering any sounds I made during the approach...
Did you catch the expulsion of blood from the snout with the bullet impact in the credits?
I didn't find any bullets, but didn't look all that hard, instead just investigating the wounds more than anything else. I was surprised the first shot did not penetrate deeper. It did get into the lungs as exemplified by the spray of blood from the snout and that it all that it really needed to do. The 2nd shot was a through and through and broke the opposite side leg on exiting. The 4th shot drilled through the skull and into the shoulder, plowing a furrow between the shoulder blade and ribs. I am certainly not unhappy with the SST performance.
I mentioned at the end of the video getting growled at by a hog. I was gathering my gear together after getting pics and heard growling behind me. It sounded a lot like the low, throaty protestation that I have heard bulls make when I got into their space in a barn. The sound grew louder and I turned around with my spotting scope to see if maybe I had managed to upset one of the cattle somehow and <100 yards away was a large boar, standing quartered toward me, looking at me, and growling loudly. I grabbed my rifle off the ground and by the time I got it up and toward him, he was running off in the woods. He never got close, but the growl was quite impressive.
So I went back Wednesday night and hoofed it to the north end of the property where I could see the neighbor's cattle and what looked like a lot of movement. By the time I got closer, I wasn't sure if the motion I had been seeing was hogs or maybe just calves playing, so I kept watching the herd to see if maybe there were some hogs still hiding with the cattle.
Eventually, I spotted one and he came across the fence, but was nearly downwind of me. By the time I swung around to be down wind of him, he had moved off to another location and I approached with a strong cross wind. I thought he would bust me visually. The moon was quite bright. He was preoccupied with rooting and took no notice of me and the wind did a good job of covering any sounds I made during the approach...
Did you catch the expulsion of blood from the snout with the bullet impact in the credits?
I didn't find any bullets, but didn't look all that hard, instead just investigating the wounds more than anything else. I was surprised the first shot did not penetrate deeper. It did get into the lungs as exemplified by the spray of blood from the snout and that it all that it really needed to do. The 2nd shot was a through and through and broke the opposite side leg on exiting. The 4th shot drilled through the skull and into the shoulder, plowing a furrow between the shoulder blade and ribs. I am certainly not unhappy with the SST performance.
I mentioned at the end of the video getting growled at by a hog. I was gathering my gear together after getting pics and heard growling behind me. It sounded a lot like the low, throaty protestation that I have heard bulls make when I got into their space in a barn. The sound grew louder and I turned around with my spotting scope to see if maybe I had managed to upset one of the cattle somehow and <100 yards away was a large boar, standing quartered toward me, looking at me, and growling loudly. I grabbed my rifle off the ground and by the time I got it up and toward him, he was running off in the woods. He never got close, but the growl was quite impressive.
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