85 grain TREX and 123 SST hogs

[RobertFL]

120520Sow.jpg This one was about 10 yards away and took a 85 grain TREX just below ear and you can see the exit down towards throat. She dropped right there.

[RobertFL]

120520Boar.jpg I had 2 mags with me and grabbed the one with SSTs instead of the Maker bullets. This boar tried to slip in behind me and he almost got down wind. He took a 123 grain SST at 40 yards thru the shoulder as you can see in the picture. The SST passed thru hog and exited low on the opposite leg after passing thru the top of heart. He dropped at the shot but got up and ran about 25 yards. his shield was nearly 3/4 inch. I found one petal that had broken off right at the exit hole. The lungs had plenty of damage and heart did too.

[sundowner]

Congrats on the hogs .

[Bigs28]

Very nice work.

[Double Naught Spy]

Good job, Robert. That all sounds about right. The sow dropped and stayed down with a CNS damaging shot. The boar ran with a boiler room shot that didn't damage CNS.

[RobertFL]

Thanks, our hunt club is a 3000 acre pine tree plantation and has no open fields or cattle. Hunting is done on 15 ft ladder stands 99.9% of the time and a swivel chair on a rare occasion. Yesterday I got a Bush Hog mower so I can mow in between pine rows and pond edges That should help me see more of the hogs.

[RobertFL]

3 years ago on our neighbors 4000 acre cattle property they had a hog dog crew come in. They live caught just over 1000 hogs in about 60 days. They caught 65 in 3 days on our place.

[peak98]

3 years ago on our neighbors 4000 acre cattle property they had a hog dog crew come in. They live caught just over 1000 hogs in about 60 days. They caught 65 in 3 days on our place.

[RobertFL]

we do have some small oak hammocks and that's a good place to see a buck during archery and black powder.. For the hogs I have 55 gallon steel drums with spin motors on bottom. they are suspended between 2 trees using chain. Raised and lowered with a "boat winch". Some of the guys use tripod feeders but the big hogs and an occasional bear tear them up at times. We have no power lines or gas lines. Since it is a club I have to stay in my area, can't access the whole 3000 acres.