His nose wasn't so sweet after being up that hogs arse!

Second coyote shows up at 240 yards tonight not far from where I shot one earlier this morning, .308 barked, DRT.

Twins!  Your a proud pappy.  Good shoot.

Any critter that will eat the ass out of a dead rotting pig should be shot on principal.  Keep it up SkyPup, you'll have TNVC begging to sponsor your Outdoor Channel show!!!

Out all night....

Sleep all day......

You know what I'm doing.

Nailed two giant boar hogs last night with SIG 716 .308 and IRD MKII thermal at about 100 yards each, one shot to the head did it.

One boar weighed 420 pounds and the other 586 pounds on the scale.

Holy hell! Now those are some hogs.

WOWSERS!!! Dang those are huge!  I wish had access to even small feral hogs, my deep freeze is empty.  Keep up the awesomeness!!

Sweet.  Porky is missing his BIG brothers....

You need to find some of those crazy Asians that pay big money to eat weird things. They would probably pay a lot to eat the those huge hog nuts

.308 puts the hog nutz down in good fashion...

Porcine snipe-age....good stuff.  You need to make yourself one of those Gilligan's Island headhunter necklaces with all the boar tusks .

New swine bushwacker setup.

Knights Armament KAC-15 SBR lower with 10.5" E3 upper and Advanced Armament 12.5" .300 BLK upper:












Just waiting on two more cans to get out of jail.....

Sweet set-up.  Great addition to the porcine eradication systems you have.  Once the cans are placed on parole it will be just about perfect.

The AAC 12.5" 300BLK upper has the same beautiful KAC URX 3.1 rail system as the KAC-15 E3 SBR does, they are kissing cousins.

I ordered a tan URX rail grip kit for the 300 BLK URX 3.1 rail so I visually do not get the two mixed up and also have red rubber bands on the 300BLK magazines to help keep them from getting mixed up.

Good idea.  That is my biggest deterrent to getting a 300blk.  I am leaning more and more toward it though.  If I can find some clear lancers that might just be the tipping point.

Here are some screenshots through the FLIR RS32-35mm thermal weapon standalone scope of the hogs:

That's a sweet looking AR, I'm not into the 300 BO but awesome AR.  

The thermals of those hogs are incredible, how they can walk around without racking themselves on trees, rocks, other pigs is even more incredible lol.  All you need is an accurate rifle and you could end a boars procreation future with one well placed shot!

I've known a few human males that deserve such a treatment

This one out in the middle of Fairway #2 at the upscale Country Club in one of their electric golf carts using the venerable Flir T-50 on RRA 300BLK with 240 grain Sierra SMK subs, another dropped DRT on the Driving Range!

It was difficult to tell which was louder, the bolt slamming back into action on the 300 BLK or the 240 grain SMK smacking the hogs like a sledge hammer?

What range?  Just need to know which iron to use.  I figure it's worth at least a birdie.

Haha, we saw them out on the fairway with the handheld FLIR LX-XR and snuck up on them with the electric golf cart, shot both at about 75 yards which is great for the 300BLK sub 240 grain SMKs.

The sound of those slugs smacking those swine is music to my ears!

This is FLIR's new Graded Fire color pallet on the RS Scope for those that have never seen it before.

It is programmed to work differently than the InstaAlert does in that it does not entirely fill in the target with color and still leaves allot of Black Hot thermal image to give a great contrast for actually shooting.


It also works very good for detection too as there is less false thermal imaging.







I like it allot.




There may be some new updates coming out soon with new RS Thermosight color pallets as well as for the older PS-32/ LS-64/LS-XR handhelds.....

That is great.  I am torn between trying to concentrate on working up sub loads for my 458socom or picking up a 300blk barrel.  I would imagine the thump of the 525gn piledrivers would also be impressive.

Here are some representative pics through the IRD MKII-35mm and FLIR RS32-35mm that we made shooting a 586 pound and a 420 pound hog @100 yards at night in 80+F temp and saturated 100% humidity.

It just goes to show that at the most common 100 or so yard shooting range at night, you can do allot with a little.....

Nice.  It looks like they are pretty close.  Is there a significant difference you can tell in actual use?

Well I solved my dilemma irt working up 458 subs or getting a 300blk.  Put a 300blk bbl on layaway yesterday.  10.5" bhw stainless mat finish.  Will cerecoat everything for the 300 fde.  Will use either fde or clear lancer mags.  Harder to make errors that way.

At 100 yards they pretty much work the same with the same result. Both worked very good.


The IRD MKII has a 640X480 microblometer and a 35mm lens, the FLIR RS-32-35 has a 338X240 microbolometer and a 35mm lens so they really are not directly comparable, although you can tell the different FOVs in the pics due to the different core/lens used in each of them.


It is good to differentiate both the 300BLK upper and the magazines so you don't get them mixed up.

Yup, don't want to run a 300BO through the 556 or vice versa.  

thanks for the comparison experience.  Is there a significant difference in price??  Would love to pick up a good thermal. Just cannot afford the $$ for the flirs I have priced.

FLIR is having some major rebates on their hunting gear for RS scopes and PS/LS handhelds.

I have an RS32-35 and a RS64-35mm and they both work great out 250 yards for targeting, detection is over twice that. The RS-64 has 4X the pixels of the RS32 for higher resolution and better ID, but the range on both of them for targeting and detection is similar.


It all depends on your terrain, your quarry, and the ranges involved as to what thermal would work best for you.

Best is to buy once and cry once, once you have one and put it to use you'll forget about how much it cost unless you accidentally lose it.....

Damn, with these low temps and low humidity, the thermal image look like an X-Ray!

Boar on the edge of the 2nd fairway stood out like a sore thumb, ground all white and big black boar in the Flir T-50:





Big change from the heat and humidity of this past summer.

This should also be on the show.

Big fat gravid sow on the 18 hole golf course fairway right below the Club House.

Took a 150 grain SMK .308 from a SIG 716 with a FLIR RS32-35mm and a 70 grain Barnes TSX from a HK 556 with Flir T-70 at 175 yards with both slugs hitting simultaneously.

Hog shuddered and dropped in its tracks, video to come later on.....

Just got that fat sow cleaned up and caped her for a mount for Bass Pro Shop and came out of the barn and a damn coral snake was in the driveway.

One shot from Baby Browning cut it in half....

Tossed out the feral hog offal this morning after cleaning up the cape for Bass Pro Shops and then this coyote shows up for some pork chops tonight and gets nailed @ 200 yards by the HK 556 with Flir T-70 right after Thanksgiving Dinner!

Wicked one shot kill....

Nice leg biter....

We had a great hunt and a great time last night blasting some wild hogs. I usually do not write up what went down to any great extent but this was pretty phunny.
About two weeks ago, a little old lady that lives in a great big house all by herself called us up and asked if we’d come down to her 10 acre property and kill some hogs for her, she said they were destroying both her front and backyard. We were busy and told her we’d get back with her, which we did not do and subsequently she called up one of our friends who is a Game Warden to complain and ask if he’d do something about it. The Game Warden then called us up and said she had major hog problems and would we go down and setup a night shoot on her property. She was out of town on a vacation for a few days and he said we could setup in her yard this weekend.

We drove the truck down to her place and parked on the paved cul-de-sac and got out and scanned around with our Flir LS-XR and Flir LS-64 handheld thermals for any heat signature. Immediately we saw two does standing in her front yard with two bedded down fawns. However right across the street from the truck, we spotted a sounder group all lite up red in InstaAlert, but did not have permission for night hunting on that side of the street on someone else’s property. So, we backed down the street and waited to see if the sounder would cross the road to the other side where we did have permission to be night hunting. Sure enough, about ten minutes later, a sounder of about 10 hogs came around the end of the cul-de-sac in a ditch but we could see the tops of their backs from our vantage point. Hit a big sow and she went screaming off into a thick swamp right behind  and we could her her thrashing in the water but could not get to her without waders. Put another round into her head in the pond and everything was quiet again. We had only been there for about 15 minutes and already had a dead hog.

Next we walked around to the rear of her large house and immediately spotted another loner hog about 175 yards out in a clearing. Figured he must be a boar since he was by himself  in the middle of a large improved cattle pasture and there were no trees or anything to rest against so just took a standing shot at him and was surprised to see him drop dead in his tracks with a bullet to the spine right in front of his shoulder. Now we had at least one hog recovered.

Walked down a 50 foot embankment down into the cattle pasture by the dead hog and all the cows came over to check us out looking for feed. Spied another sounder off the edge of the pasture under some big live oaks rooting up fresh acorn mast with the Flir handhelds about a quarter mile away and made our way closer to them. Got setup standing again and opened up approximately 100 yards and two hogs immediately dropped dead right next to each other. Another ten hogs took off for the thick tall dog fennel to escape and another one of them got nailed before the rest vanished in the brush.

Since we had four hogs dead and recoverable and one other dead and lost in the pond, we decided to call it a night and get the truck to recover the dead hogs out in the field. Loaded them up and headed back home and dumped 200 pounds of ice (we have an on-site commercial ice machine in the barn) on the carcasses in the sled and left them to clean the next morning.

Got up bright and early at the ranch and were busy cleaning the hogs when a Deputy Sheriff pulls up in the driveway and gets out of his patrol car and heads out way. We were covered in blood with butcher wraps on and he asks us if we have seen a lost cow since a dozen cows had escaped the neighbors cattle pasture the night before. We said no and then he asks us, “Do you mind if I ask what you are doing?”, seeing all the blood and pile of offal he thought that we had butchered the missing cow!!! Things went much better after he saw all the hogs heads/capes and found out he’s on the same softball team…..

Gear used was a FLIR LS-XR handheld, FLIR LS-64 handheld, FLIR T-70 clip-on on a HK 556, and FLIR T-50 clip-on on a RRA 556 shooting Barnes 70 grain TSX:

Another big gravid sow takes two Barnes 70 grain TSX to the head, one from a SIG 556 with DBAL-2 IR laser and ITT PVS-14 helmet mounted laser and the other from an HK 556 with FLIR T-70 thermal.

Spotted sow 1/2 mile out in pasture with handheld Flir LS-XR and took 10 minutes to walk in close enough to put her down.


Thermal and NV worked like a charm together!

My, what nice reptiles!

I keep yelling FORE on the fairways but they just would not get out of the way!


HK556 Flir T-70 FLir LS-XR:





Noveske 300BLK Flir T-50:





Dude was barfing golf balls!






Fairways and greens don't need hog rooting:

70 pounds of fresh sausage, one half of tonight's grind.

Gave away a dozen fresh unfrozen smoked sausage packs today for holiday gifts, everybody raves it is some of the best they have ever had!

FORE!

Boy, this night time golfing with NV and Thermal on the fairways is loads of fun and getting addicting with the FLIR T-50 and the 300BLK!

We recently shot over a dozen hogs with handloaded Sierra 240 grain MatchKings subsonics (chrono 1,050fps) in our 16" Noveske 300 BLK and 12.5" AAC BLK and had not recovered a single slug to find out how they were performing.

It looked liked they were all passing through the hogs body and exiting out the other side, making precision sniper shots a requirement to put them down.

Anyhow, finally recovered one from last night and our theory was proven correct, slug stuck in the cervical spine on a neck shot.

Cervical vertebrae are thinner and more delicate than the thoracic vertebrae and the 300 BLK did not even deform when stopping.

Shot Placement is everything with a 300 BLK MatchKing!

Will the Barnes TSX slugs you favor expand at subsonic velocities?

Looks like those Match Kings require sniper accuracy to bring them hogs down.

Barnes TSX will not work subsonic, but they do work like mad supersonic.


I have 200 rounds each of 130 grain Barnes TSX and 90 grain Barnes TSX supersonic loads for the .300BLK and they are NOT a problem and are devastating supersonic.

Sniper accuracy with the subs in the 300BLK is not a problem using the FLIR T-50, T-70, and RS64 thermal scopes we've been using at night, they are deadly accurate out over 100 yards or so, but we need to develop a load that expands like maybe a cast lead 240 grain slug?


The reason we are using 300BLK subs is that we are in the backyard of multimillion dollar houses on the country club fairway and right next to the County Clubhouse full of people dining and eating dinner!

Yikes! Risky bidness with people who can afford, or actually are lawyers. The pigs and non-expanding match bullets would be the least of my worries.
The first time one of those things runs off and bleeds out in some socialite's driveway it'll be a stink. Or mebbe a SWATtin' by some bored rich kid who knows you're there.

Either way, I hope they pay well and yer azz is covered, bubba-la-hoo.

Outside of that, great pics and commentary!!

Have you looked at the REAPR 300BLK ammo with the 200gr bullet designed to open at subsonic velocity?

There is a thread here on it. I bought some to try on predators recently. Shot some this weekend and it was very accurate ammo out of my suppressed 10.5" 300BLK. You can buy it through the store here or buy the bullets to load your own ammo. Iirc, the bullets are from Maker. But the info is in the thread.

JPK

A couple of our good friends are industry professionals and were recently going for a tour of the Sierra Bullet factory and picked up 2,000 240gr SMKs for us for free, that is why we've been using them in the subsonic 300BLK.

But after seeing how they perform on the hogs at subsonic speeds, I will be getting some of the Leigh or REAPR 300BLK bullets to handload from now on.