Posted: 3/29/2026 4:29:37 PM EDT
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I've been hog hunting for a very long time, and have killed hundreds of them. I decided to give it a try with a TacSol integrally suppressed .22 this weekend. I had been watching a group of hogs come to a feeder every evening for the past several days, and we set up a ground blind tucked back under some mesquite trees 45 yards from the feeder. As expected, two sows and about a dozens piglet showed up at the appointed time. My son had a suppressed 6.8 SPC. We usually shoot at the same time, but decided to let me shoot first before he jumped in. I shot one of the sows just behind the ear, and she fell to her knees before staggering back up. Just as she started to run, my son popped her in the head and she dropped. In the ensuing rodeo of pigs running, I shot the other sow and 3 of the piglets. I couldn't tell where I hit the sow, but she made that "death squeal" as she ran into the brush. One piglet was hit with a high spine shot that dropped it, and the others were wounding hits but not enough to drop them before they ran into the brush. We looked at the game cam pics and saw some of the drama after we started shooting. I have earholed hogs with a .22 before, but they were under lights in a cattle feed lot. This was the first time out in the brush. I have to say that this TacSol is movie quiet and stupidly accurate. My son thought that I had a misfire on my first shot until he realized that the hog had been hit. The highlight was my grandson. He and I have been practicing for a while, and he has steadily gotten better on the trigger. We got him on a hog that was about 80 yards away. He made a solid neck shot on a sow. She flipped over and kicked her legs frantically, but stayed down where she was hit. He did a great job, was safe, and had a great time. He used one of my AR15s with 77 grain IMI SMK OTMs. |
