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http://www.phossil.com/thom/4th%20July%20Hog/Xmas%20Terrorist.JPGhttp://www.phossil.com/thom/4th%20July%20Hog/Xmas%20Santa.JPG View Quote When the hogs do shoot back! |
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[#3]
I guess I need to get over to Eastern Oregon and see what I can find. Been told they are hard to find over there. But they seem to have spread since 2014.
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[#5]
Interesting to see so many hogs in white color.
I'm in South FL and I don't think 15% of hogs around here has any white. We do have occasionally interesting looking silver/gray hogs that started showing up about 3 years ago. |
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[#8]
great shooting, pictures and equipment! im over in nw fl, trying to find some pigs. have a 10" rigid ir combo going on the front of my rzr, hopefully it works good. i had a larson 12", but was not any brighter than my surefire handheld vampire.
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[#10]
Great story. Would have loved to have seen a video of that. Them 10' charges will make one need time new pants
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[#11]
That really was not too good of an idea of me hunting up a wounded bedded down boar hog in thick woods alone, it was a two man job for sure.
The 556 had virtually NO stopping power at close range and I shot him 4-5 times in the flank and another 10 times in the head and 5 more in neck spine for good measure. I am lucky I made it out of there without any mishap alone in there. |
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[#13]
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That really was not too good of an idea of me hunting up a wounded bedded down boar hog in thick woods alone, it was a two man job for sure. The 556 had virtually NO stopping power at close range and I shot him 4-5 times in the flank and another 10 times in the head and 5 more in neck spine for good measure. I am lucky I made it out of there without any mishap alone in there. View Quote Skypup I was wondering if the pigs dried up haven't heard a good post in awhile. I snapped a Hornady steel match on a coyote last night with no boom. This is the second one from that box. |
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[#14]
http://myfwc.com/hunting/by-species/wild-hog/dates/
2017 spring and summer hog hunting on public lands See where you can hunt hogs on wildlife management areas without a quota permit this spring and summer. These weekend opportunities start in May. |
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[#15]
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That really was not too good of an idea of me hunting up a wounded bedded down boar hog in thick woods alone, it was a two man job for sure. The 556 had virtually NO stopping power at close range and I shot him 4-5 times in the flank and another 10 times in the head and 5 more in neck spine for good measure. I am lucky I made it out of there without any mishap alone in there. View Quote |
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[#16]
UTV would have never made it back in there, was difficult enough with the ATV.
A D9 CAT would have been perfect. |
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[#18]
That looks like a lot of fun!!! Plus you have all the cool toys :)
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[#19]
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Two of us were setup in my UTV in my backyard watching the thermal screen from my remote FLIR M-324 Pan/Tilt over an area I had baited with corn pipes where some large hogs were showing up. Both of us had suppressed SIG 716 .308s with FLIR thermals and 150 grain SPs. Large Loner Boar Hog shows up out of dense woods into the open 75 yards in front of us, target with thermals and countdown 1,2,3.... I shoot and boar is knocked over with a loud WHACK when .308 pill hits him, however he gets back up and and is limping into a nearby dense jungle brush. No shot from my buddy, his rifle missfired with a dud reloaded shell. Get out and both of us search with helmet mounted FLIR M-24 thermals and FLIR XR hand scanners for an hour with no thermal signatures sighted. Get back home at 4:30AM and crash. After sunup, headed back out to canvass area to try to discover where the wounded boar bedded down for the night, figuring he would be dead. Had my KAC-15 with Truijicon ACOG, BE Meyers MAWL dual beam laser on Green Vis, two magazines of 556 77gr SMKs, and my SIG P-226. Hiked out into the dense brush and began transecting the area back and forth using the FLIR InstaAlert checking for heat signatures. About to give it up after an hour of hiking back and forth in and out, when I stepped out of a thick bristle brush right on top of the hog bedded down 20 feet in front of me. He got up and ran into even deeper thicker woods thicket with me getting off five quick shots at point blank range into his side and ass as he disappeared again. Circled the thick brush trying to see him with no joy for thirty minutes. The sun was occluded and I was on the verge of getting lost in the dense woods but kept slowing walking around a dense thicket. Suddenly he came charging out at me from 40 feet, with Green Laser on his head I shot him 10 times and he went down 25 feet from me. Shot another five rounds into his neck to sever his spine and I finally had him dead at my feet. Now I was a quarter mile or more deep in the woods pretty much almost lost as the morning sun was obliterated with dense clouds. Tried to walk straight back out to forest grade to the ATV but that was impossible. Somehow made it back out to the grade and hiked down to ATV and returned to my marked spot where I had come out. Driving the ATV in there to get the hog was a nightmare and extremely difficult getting hung up everywhere and getting lost again. Had to come back out to forest grade twice and reenter to try to find the dead hog where I had left him. On the third try I finally saw him, roped him on the hitch and put in in 4WD to drag him out. After overheating the ATV, finally made it out to the grade and headed a half mile back home in 1st gear 4WD. Thank God for diesel engine power and tractor hydraulics as I finally got him winched up in the barn about noontime and he weighed 410 pounds on the scale, hams are 40 pounds each. Went to brewery and got 300 pounds of ice and a case of freshly brewed suds and went to work on the beast...... This is my SIG 716 .308 I shot him with Elcan 1-6X, FLIR T-70: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/SIG%20716.jpg This is the area we were staked out in the mobile UTV hunting blind: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/UTV%20IR.jpg This is the same shot with the FLIR M-324 remote Pan/Tilt, he came out of the woods to the left: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/FLIR.jpg This is the bed he bedded down for the night in where I first jumped him and shot him again, you can see the blood in the dirt: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/Hog%20Bed.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/Blood%20Trail.jpg This is him where I finally put him down with the KAC-15 and MAWL Green Vis Laser: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/Hog%20KAC15.jpg Here is the ATV finally making it out to the forest grade road to head home: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/ATV%20Hog.jpg Here is the diesel powered hydraulics and mobile UTV hunting blind back at the house: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/Hondini%20Tractor%20Hog.jpg Here is the size of this dude's hoof: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/Hoof%20Hand.jpg Here is the beer factory where I picked up the 300 pounds of ice and cold brew for the butchering job: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/Beer%20Factory.jpg They do not mess around here, best damn beer around: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/Beer.jpg Here is the scale once I got him strung up in the barn: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T70/410%20Pound%20Hog/410%20Scale.jpg Most amazing day I have had in a long long time...... 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[#20]
HaHa, I am working on it but think it will look like Swiss Cheese! |
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[#23]
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This Gemtech Integral Suppressed barrel is the quietest .22 can ever! http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/Ruger%201022/Suppressed%20Ruger.JPG View Quote |
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[#25]
Boy they soaked up the lead. I bet your hunters were excited as kid's at Christmas.
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[#27]
520 fucking pounds !!!!!!!
That has to be some sort of record. Never knew they could get that heavy. At that weight, forget the .308 and break out the .338 LM |
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[#29]
Holy shit dude. Are you lacing those corn pipes with growth hormone or something lol?
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[#31]
bad ass to say the least. had no luck in south ga mothers day weekend and have not seen but a couple hogs in NW FL
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[#33]
Those crack pipes work good, I move them around to where the action is to draw them out into the open and anchor them. They are usually on one for an hour knocking it around giving amble time for an ambush. I fill them with corn and high sulfur blackstrap molasses and they love it, can smell them miles away.
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[#34]
Not many 500 pounds animals you can hunt legally at night with NV and Thermal gear anywhere in North America.
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[#35]
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Not many 500 pounds animals you can hunt legally at night with NV and Thermal gear anywhere in North America. View Quote Someone cracks the right joke and someone might laugh themselves into a heart attack or worse yet spot their britches. |
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[#37]
Damn, that a big set of chompers. Bet they could tear a man up if he got to close.
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[#40]
Hey T, thanks for the posts!
How are the ticks this year down your way? We still need to meet at Nappy's sometime. |
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[#44]
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It was a blast for sure! Grendel SBR works fantastic as does the .30 cal Harvestor can, rings steel with authority out 300 yards. The proof is in the pudding! http://www.phossil.com/thom/6.5%20Grendel/Sausage.JPG View Quote |
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[#48]
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Finally got the trophy skull cleaned up that the FLIR T-70s and 6.5mm Grendal and 6.8 SPC took down. Quite the tusker indeed! http://www.phossil.com/thom/6.5%20Grendel/Head1.JPG http://www.phossil.com/thom/6.5%20Grendel/Head2.jpg Grendel gave him quite the headache.... http://www.phossil.com/thom/6.5%20Grendel/Head3.jpg View Quote |
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[#50]
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Got a new set of HogBalls to accentuate the feeders. http://www.phossil.com/thom/4th%20July%20Hog/HogBalls.JPG Holy HogBalls, BatMan! View Quote |
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