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Double double!
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03/28/22 09:21 PM
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I got into the blind early on Saturday AM, at least an hour and a half before sunrise. Cool temperatures, breeze blowing in my face, and turkeys gobbling all around me (they knew it wasn't the season yet). as the light starts to show I see a huge sounder cruise through, never stopped at the feeder. 3-4 sows and a slew of small ones (20 pounders, maybe?). About 10 minutes later, they cruised by again, but they didn't stop. In the better light I could see that the sows looked pretty depleted, probably from the huge litters. Then about 15 minutes later, they rolled in again, this time moving slower and gathering under the feeder (which had just gone off). I waited for two of the small ones to line up, and shot them with my .270. They dropped right under the feeder, but instead of the usual three seconds of chaos that ensues when a sounder hears that loud shot, they moved behind a clump of cedars about 40 yards away, So I quickly racked up again, waited until two more small ones lined up again, and shot two more. At a distance it was hard to gander size but when I walked up to them they were in the 15-20 lb. range! I kept only the hams and backstraps as there's not enough meat in those front shoulders to be worth the trouble. The hams look like the size of large chicken drumsticks! It's only my second double-double on pigs so I was pretty excited, plus we took four mouths off the ranch. Back there in a couple of weeks and I will continue to prioritize hogs, especially as dry as it is in Kimble Co. Need deer and antelope eating, not hogs....
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03/28/22 10:02 PM
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Double Naught Spy
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Very nice! Anybody can shoot great big boars, but it takes a lot more skill to hit the little ones at distance, particularly getting twofers!
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03/28/22 11:01 PM
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Biscuit
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That’s a great size to eat
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03/29/22 01:20 AM
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kmon11
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Congrats, great tasting size pigs
lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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03/29/22 01:40 PM
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03/29/22 04:20 PM
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In and out burger has nothing on this Nice shot
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03/29/22 06:06 PM
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Grilled the de-boned hams last night with a little dry rub and chunk of mesquite for a little smoke. They made awesome tacos!
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03/29/22 07:13 PM
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03/29/22 11:23 PM
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Nice going and that looks like good eats!
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03/30/22 12:10 AM
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GusWayne
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Perfect eating size, those bastages to make great tacos
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03/30/22 03:44 AM
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Good shootin and perfect eatin size!!
Wife has always wanted some Hard 8
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