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Ben (Hunt TXhogs) and I did some hunting a couple of nights ago. I am still using Barnes TTSX 100 gr. bullets that Dinny provided for me with the help of Druid Hill Armory and Starline Brass.
After checking several properties, we came across our first hog in a field with fairly high grass/winter wheat/weeds. Part way through our stalk, we stopped to get video and figure our how much farther we needed to moved when he had the idea of scanning our surroundings (I was fixated on the target). Well, he spots another hog way left and behind us. So we devised a plan about which I was uncertain of the outcome. The only thing I was confident about was that we had specific directions of fire away from one another and that we would be safe. The plan? Advance on our hogs to shooting positions and then he would signal me with a red light to give me a 10 second warning. I would shoot just as soon as I heard his report. What could go wrong? He flashed the red light. However, my hog moved into higher grass and turned toward me during the 10 seconds. He fired and I fired about a quarter second later. His hog went down for good. Mine went down making noise and eventually got up to run. I managed to drop it on the run at 170 yards. Maybe not the best game plan, but for spur of the moment, the results turned out well. Less than an hour later, we killed a 3rd hog very close to where I dropped my original hog.
After checking several properties, we came across our first hog in a field with fairly high grass/winter wheat/weeds. Part way through our stalk, we stopped to get video and figure our how much farther we needed to moved when he had the idea of scanning our surroundings (I was fixated on the target). Well, he spots another hog way left and behind us. So we devised a plan about which I was uncertain of the outcome. The only thing I was confident about was that we had specific directions of fire away from one another and that we would be safe. The plan? Advance on our hogs to shooting positions and then he would signal me with a red light to give me a 10 second warning. I would shoot just as soon as I heard his report. What could go wrong? He flashed the red light. However, my hog moved into higher grass and turned toward me during the 10 seconds. He fired and I fired about a quarter second later. His hog went down for good. Mine went down making noise and eventually got up to run. I managed to drop it on the run at 170 yards. Maybe not the best game plan, but for spur of the moment, the results turned out well. Less than an hour later, we killed a 3rd hog very close to where I dropped my original hog.
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