Trail of Tears

blistering 25mph winds and sand blasting dirt is about as good as the hunting gets. reapir was flawless in 20% humidity. nothing, and i mean NOTHING knows you're closing in. we were invisible, moving about at will and filling our insatiable appetite for killing hogs. and we would need everything in our favor to find and slaughter a ghost herd that had eluded us for the last three hunts. after they gave us the slip last week, they completely wiped out a quarter of a peanut circle. somebody was going to pay... with blood.

i'm using a trijicon mk3 and my bud has a mk2. needless to say, seeing was not a problem. the vid is a compilation of all the stalks and kill shots from the night. first herd got 8. second herd got 9. then i picked off a single out the window.

the ghost herd tends to show up late, gorge themselves and leave quickly. we scoured the countryside until we found their hiding place in a large depression. i wasn't paying attention and let my battery run out late into the night. bud had to take on the ghost herd single handed. he got 3 and we raced around to catch the wounded ones before they got out. a slow moving sow was leading the way on the trail of tears with a brave and loyal escort... right into the jaws of death. 22 recovered for the night.

awesome

That's freakin awesome, I like how you have a variety of colors.

That's a great total for the night. Congrats guys, good shooting.

A couple of those look a little "high and back"....Jes sayin.....


Looks like a good time......lots of pork on the ground!

That’s a lot of coyote bait

That was awesome

I loved the spewing pirouette.

They can run, but they can't hide.

Great video.

Made my day to be blessed by a djones hog inihilation post. Great job sir!

Wackem and stackem, good stuff

one looks like she is sucking piggies or gonna have some

pretty fun hunt. well worth the total fubar i suffered the next day. got in just in time to go to work the next morning. but no one ever looks back and says... "hey, remember that time i got a great night's sleep". besides, it only hurts for a few days i'm ok now and going back out tonight.

snake,
a lot of shots were high and back, lol. could be because sometimes we were both shooting at the same pig. also, sometimes those bullets go through and hit beyond the pig. they're running so fast that by the time they find dirt the pig is well past.

if i could photoshop vids, id make every one a head shot. here is more footage with the sound to give you an idea of how windy it was. when i first setup my tripod, it blew over right into me. i was getting blown around so much that i couldn't even hold on my first shot choice and had to switch during the countdown. but then again, i'm djones so it didn't really matter,

Djones is the only thing chuck Norris is afraid of

That is awesome! Nice shooting! Missed seeing your posts lately!

Great job w/the conditions you faced, looked like you had a great time.

Eyebrows and sows!

Good shooting and video editing!

you guys are funny... well, most of you anyway, lol

Nice vid and good shooting!

Man that is some impressive shooting

Caliber and bullet selection ?

6.8 spc2, 120gr sst

Welcome back djones! Great vid and digging the Aldo Nova intro...

Word

That's the way you do it right there

Christmas came early! Djones is back in rare form.....appreciate the post. Great video.

Man, as much crap as we give each other, I am impressed. You have improved, truly enjoyed that.

Ahh yes the old white z71, half the reason I looked at those old posts... ok the stack of dead hogs is greatness as well.

ha ha, finally had to get rid of that truck after over a quarter million miles. man i loved it. super easy to black out all the lights inside and out. unfortunately, there were several months i was spending over $1,000/month to keep it running. of course i was kinda hard on her at times. man oh man, if she could only talk.

rex you come up with some crazy stuff sometimes. you certainly gave as good as you got. and btw, who the 'blank' did payne blo to get a mod position? what the heck have y'all been doing as mods? i take a little vacation and come back to see half of the folks here need a falcon punch to the nads. is this is a touchy-feely forum now?

I think someone made a mistake on both of us and were too embarrassed to admit the mistake, so we got stuck here. They somehow mixed up txshntr with djones. I always thought you would have made a great mod.

There are definitely some falcon punches that need thrown, but it is moving in the right direction. Change is in the air, I can feel it

I thought being a Mod was some form of severe punishment that the WOS wasn't worthy to provide.

That's one smelly a** photo for sure

Can you do that every night

Glad your back, it's been rather stale around with only HF livestock to look at.

Nice work! Glad to see djones!

I hate that much wind, but ya'll did well. Especially Onek lol. Must be the gun lol.

it depends on whether i can get the little woman bedded down by 10:00 or 10:30

still plenty of tears on the trail...

Keep whackinenum big dog

Ahh he’s back! Keep it going

Awesome!!

What is your full set up? (Rifle/optics/etc)

Good job, djones, even if they weren't all head shots, given the weather conditions and moving targets!!

i'm pretty terrifying alright. once i looked in the mirror and scared myself. wait a sec. that didn't come out right


lwrc a5 16" 6.8 (uses 30 round pmags!!), giselle ssa-e, tbeast ultra 7, xlr stock. trijicon mark 3

Are those peanut fields your shooting in?

Great shooting and well disciplined on placing shots. Your hog eradication program ahead of others. lol

Gotta ask, what do you do with the pigs? Do you leave them there or go fetch them? Just curious.

yea middy, mostly peanut fields. but they could be anywhere. i got one last night in cotton

b_r - usually one or more of the following...
take their picture
drag them off
peel out on their heads
leave them laying
keep one if someone wants to munch on it