Finally getting after the pigs again.

Been a long dry spell for me on shooting pigs. With things all grown up, hot summer weather, harvest season, deer hunters, and everything going on it just hasn't been working out. But about a month ago we started slipping out a little bit here and there and killing a few. Now that we are about to hit the new year it should really start picking up since my hunting partners have their crops out, and with deer season pretty much over traffic will really taper off. Plus the pigs will start getting hungry now with cold weather and be out roaming a whole lot more. Personally I am right about 70 pigs confirmed, +/- a couple, for the calendar year. Still have 5 days left maybe I can add a few more.

First pic is a lone boar we shot, maybe 185-190 lbs, we didn't weigh it. He had a nasty infected cut in his shoulder from fighting. The next time out we got another mid-size boar, and then a smaller one while we were taking pictures of the first one we shot.

A couple weeks after that we got 4 out of a small sounder. I was on the couch in my pajamas when my partner called and said he was watching a sounder 7 miles from my house, did I want to come shoot them with him? I said of course I do, I'll be there in 12 minutes! That picture is deceiving. Big sow (hanging up) was 198.5 lb, the two smaller ones on the ground were 141 and 138.

A few days ago during Christmas we got into a really good sounder with a brand new shooter, but a bunch of them got out into waist high Johnson grass next to the peanut field and we lost them. Recovered 3 decent ones though. Big sow weighed 184, the blond one in the middle was a boar. We had to start shooting while we were a little farther out from the main bunch than I preferred because the boar was walking up on us and getting too close. It still worked out OK though.

Nice! Are you shooting a 7.62x39? Looking at the mag.

That 2nd to last pic is awesome. Well done!

Nice

Shooting a 6.5 Grendel, those are C Products mags. They have worked very good for me.

Here are a few videos. I will try and keep them in the correct order. First vid is the lone boar with the cut shoulder. I think after we shoot I swing off to the side looking for a coyote that was hanging out over there. Can't remember if I edited that out or not.

https://youtu.be/UzmwguLjvUA

This video should be the second boar. He runs at us and if you look close you can see both of us shoot right down the left side with our second shots, and leave 2 graze marks down his side. You can see those marks in the pic.

https://youtu.be/q18vd_sttsE

This video matches the pic with 4 pigs, and the big sow hanging from the hoist. Pretty sure we killed all 4 sows but couldn't find one down in that deep ditch full of tall grass. One of the ones we found was just on the edge but you don't see her fall in the video.

https://youtu.be/pNb0mtJAUQk

Some pretty ugly shooting in this video, but we had a new shooter with us and I was pretty distracted. Should have done better.

https://youtu.be/g5yHqTm7aHE

Nice looking rigs. Like that skinning pole setup up thats removable as well.

A very good night's work! Please stay after them, 'caiuse they're reproducing much faster than we can shoot them!!