I saw hogs every night this week. Mon and Tue, I watched the same group of 8 hogs on my side of the fence, but didn't shoot because I didn't want to cause a problem for the land owner where I am hunting. The neighbor takes clients out with dogs, and I've been told if I shoot one not to let it get back over on the bordering property. Wednesday night they didn't show up and I took a nice 150# sow, butchered it and sent the wife to buy a freezer the next morning.
Thursday night I watched another group of 8 on the other side of the fence, for several hours. Friday night, I called a friend to ask if he could help butcher some hogs, I had told the land owner about the hogs on her property and not shooting and she said to shoot them, so I said I would. He said he would so I was going to try and get several. The same group of 8 came out and fed up and down the fence line staying near the cattle, I was about to call it a night at 10:30, when 11 more showed up. I had 19 hogs feeding up and down the fence line, but none would come across the fence. After hunting all week my rechargables died at 1:30AM and I headed home.
Sat night, I headed back for a quick hunt. Glassed the front field nothing there or the neighbors where they had been all week, so I headed to the back. I got almost to the creek that splits the property and glassed again and spotted a coyote about 250 yds away. I dug out my distress call and gave a few quick calls, and sure enough she came loping in, cut the distance to about half and turned broadside. I was shaking like a leaf and finally able to keep the monopod from trembling like a divining rod and squeezed of the shot. DRT right behind the shoulder. I stepped it off at 135 steps. My first predator!
I headed back to the truck, and just before I got to it I glassed for the hogs one last time. Sure enough, there they were along the fence, I watched for less than a minute, when all of a sudden they made a mad dash like escaping felons, for about 200 yds into the pasture. Then they just stopped in the wide open pasture and started feeding in my general direction. I let the feed around to my right and about 100 yds closer. The closest one was about 50 yds away, I could tell he sensed something so I took a neck shot and he was DRT. I found another target a larger sow that was running and took another neck shot at about 75 yds, and the lens cap fell down over the lens. I got the lens cap off and started glassing, I found 1 large sow and 4 pigs, but couldn't locate the other sow, they were too far for a reasonable shot. I knew that I had hit her because I heard the bullet strike. I started glassing again, I finally located her and knew that she was hit, but didn't know how badly. She was moving pretty good and headed to the other property. I shot and heard the impact, it spun her back end around, I aimed further forward and shot again and heard the impact. She was barely moving now, but I had strict instructions not to allow hogs to get back on the other property. I shot 2 more times and heard both impacts, she was finally down less than 100 yds from the fence.
Upon inspection the first shot was through the neck, but low so it didn't break the neck. The second shot hit just in front of the hams, 3rd shot was just behind the ribs, 4th shot was through the ribs, and the 5th shot was through the shoulders. I think the first shot was a fatal shot, and she would have laid down at the first brush she encountered.
DVR is still down, I'll try to post pics as soon as I can.
Thursday night I watched another group of 8 on the other side of the fence, for several hours. Friday night, I called a friend to ask if he could help butcher some hogs, I had told the land owner about the hogs on her property and not shooting and she said to shoot them, so I said I would. He said he would so I was going to try and get several. The same group of 8 came out and fed up and down the fence line staying near the cattle, I was about to call it a night at 10:30, when 11 more showed up. I had 19 hogs feeding up and down the fence line, but none would come across the fence. After hunting all week my rechargables died at 1:30AM and I headed home.
Sat night, I headed back for a quick hunt. Glassed the front field nothing there or the neighbors where they had been all week, so I headed to the back. I got almost to the creek that splits the property and glassed again and spotted a coyote about 250 yds away. I dug out my distress call and gave a few quick calls, and sure enough she came loping in, cut the distance to about half and turned broadside. I was shaking like a leaf and finally able to keep the monopod from trembling like a divining rod and squeezed of the shot. DRT right behind the shoulder. I stepped it off at 135 steps. My first predator!
I headed back to the truck, and just before I got to it I glassed for the hogs one last time. Sure enough, there they were along the fence, I watched for less than a minute, when all of a sudden they made a mad dash like escaping felons, for about 200 yds into the pasture. Then they just stopped in the wide open pasture and started feeding in my general direction. I let the feed around to my right and about 100 yds closer. The closest one was about 50 yds away, I could tell he sensed something so I took a neck shot and he was DRT. I found another target a larger sow that was running and took another neck shot at about 75 yds, and the lens cap fell down over the lens. I got the lens cap off and started glassing, I found 1 large sow and 4 pigs, but couldn't locate the other sow, they were too far for a reasonable shot. I knew that I had hit her because I heard the bullet strike. I started glassing again, I finally located her and knew that she was hit, but didn't know how badly. She was moving pretty good and headed to the other property. I shot and heard the impact, it spun her back end around, I aimed further forward and shot again and heard the impact. She was barely moving now, but I had strict instructions not to allow hogs to get back on the other property. I shot 2 more times and heard both impacts, she was finally down less than 100 yds from the fence.
Upon inspection the first shot was through the neck, but low so it didn't break the neck. The second shot hit just in front of the hams, 3rd shot was just behind the ribs, 4th shot was through the ribs, and the 5th shot was through the shoulders. I think the first shot was a fatal shot, and she would have laid down at the first brush she encountered.
DVR is still down, I'll try to post pics as soon as I can.
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