This nice boar was skulking around behind the main shooting range.  There, I have a swinging prairie dog target, that I shoot @ 200 yards, before I go on my P-dog hunts to west Texas.  Its about the size of a shoe, and when you shoot it with the suppressed Ruger 10/22, it makes the coolest "pinnng."   I have tested every rifle I own for the "dope" necessary to hit that target.  However, there is no holdover with the 85 TSX or the 95 TTSX even with my 12" 6.8 X 43 mm SBR.  

If you guessed that I shot this with the 95 TTSX. well...DUH.  I have to say, that after shooting about 45 hogs with this bullet, I am simply amazed.  I don't use that word often and this big pig solidified that for me.  I saw it when I went out on to the porch to let the dog out.  As a habit, I always take the HELGA out there with me, to spot any animals and sure enough, there were about 10 hogs pittling around on the shooting range.  Very bad idea.  

This hog was the largest signature on the thermal.  He was walking, so I ran back inside, grabbed the first NOD-equipped 6.8 I saw and went back out.  I lined up on him with the D-740 and turned on the Torch IR illuminator.  Finally, he stood broadside for just about 1-2 seconds before he entered some very thick brush, so I just put the reticule on the shoulder, near the top, to try and get the spine, and squeezed.  I figured "well, that's a long way off for nighttime and pitch blackness, but you have to check for the margins of performance, by shoulder-shooting at these longish distances..."  Besides, I knew I would hear the bullet hit at that distance from the suppressed rifle.  So, POP, THWOP, and damn if the thing didn't FLOP over with a feeble kick  

The load used was 29.5 grains of reloder 10X @ 2.295, with WSRM and SSA brass. Out of my 12" SBR, its going 2620 FPS, by my chrono. When I got to the pig, the bullet had entered in exactly the spot I held....high shoulder about 1/3 of the way down from the mane.  It did not exit.  It weighed 255 pounds.  

Great performance for the 95 TTSX, the D-740 and the (good old) Ko-Tonics 12",  11 twist, 4 groove.

.22?

That's awsome.  I love shooting pigs.

Nice pig and great write-up

Nice hog and sweet rig!

Complete sweetness

wow

POP, THWOP, &  FLOP  FTMWW

You'd think those stupid things would learn not to hang around back behind the range.

Here's the one Dave shot behind the range on the last night we were there. Can anyone guess which bullet it was shot with?

Good job HTR!

Thats a nice boar.  Excellent strategy (high shoulder shot) and great shooting.

Nope, this is the old Warthog, but the new one should be approved any day now.  Stamp went pending in June....any day.  Yeah, we've shot a few like that now....this one had a little gray hair too.  The population is UP.

I envy you Texas guys!  Nice work.  These threads have me wanting a 6.8 X43 AR Performance hunting setup.