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Of course I never really quit shooting pigs but the last 3 weeks or we have started getting serious about thinning numbers down. Pigs are hungry with not much to eat which makes them lots easier to hunt. Planting season for peanuts will be here in another 4-6 weeks so the time is right to really get after them. Some we have been killing on old peanut ground where there are still nuts out there that got missed during harvest. Some we have been killing out in cotton patches where they are rooting up nutgrass, or eating the wheat seed that was supposed to be a cover crop. Of course we are in a serious drought so a lot of the wheat never came up, it just sat there. Helicopters have been flying a bunch too so that is cutting down numbers and scattering pigs. Still plenty to kill and lots of work to do though.
Last year I bought 800-1000 of the Sierra 85 HP bullets. They have worked very well for me on coyotes, and not bad at all on pigs. Like most bullets if you put them where they need to go they work great, and if you don't then just like anything, the pigs are going to run. I have no complaints with them though. Last week I dropped a 279 lb sow in her tracks with one shot, she barely twitched. But I shot her in the sweet spot, so there is that.
Anyways, 21 pigs confirmed in less than 3 weeks. Me and my 14 year old daughter stalked 600 yards and killed 5 one night, with a 231 lb boar. Killed 4 the next night with a friend, couple of big sows in that bunch, 2 of them 200+. We didn't weigh any of those since we were in his truck but I weigh enough pigs I can tell when they crack 200. Then we killed a lone boar, maybe 175 lb. Took a new night shooter with me last week and we got into two nice sounders, killed 9 that night. One of those went 279 lbs. This weekend killed a nice old boar. He weighed 203 but his teeth were totally wore out, cutters broke off at the gums. Just in general poor health. I wish we could have killed him in his prime I bet he would have been good.
Enough talk though I will post up some pictures. All of these were killed with a Grendel. Most with the 85 Sierra, but some with a 100 ELDM and some with a 123 SST.
Me and my daughter:
Last year I bought 800-1000 of the Sierra 85 HP bullets. They have worked very well for me on coyotes, and not bad at all on pigs. Like most bullets if you put them where they need to go they work great, and if you don't then just like anything, the pigs are going to run. I have no complaints with them though. Last week I dropped a 279 lb sow in her tracks with one shot, she barely twitched. But I shot her in the sweet spot, so there is that.
Anyways, 21 pigs confirmed in less than 3 weeks. Me and my 14 year old daughter stalked 600 yards and killed 5 one night, with a 231 lb boar. Killed 4 the next night with a friend, couple of big sows in that bunch, 2 of them 200+. We didn't weigh any of those since we were in his truck but I weigh enough pigs I can tell when they crack 200. Then we killed a lone boar, maybe 175 lb. Took a new night shooter with me last week and we got into two nice sounders, killed 9 that night. One of those went 279 lbs. This weekend killed a nice old boar. He weighed 203 but his teeth were totally wore out, cutters broke off at the gums. Just in general poor health. I wish we could have killed him in his prime I bet he would have been good.
Enough talk though I will post up some pictures. All of these were killed with a Grendel. Most with the 85 Sierra, but some with a 100 ELDM and some with a 123 SST.
Me and my daughter:
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