Went out to check a peanut field for hogs and look over a cotton field to report to the farmer any deer eating the newly sprouted cotton (he'd sprayed some type of deer repellent in one part of the cotton field and no repellent in another part). So far, no deer in the repellent sprayed area, but deer in the non-sprayed area a couple of nights, so he's gonna now spray the rest of the field.
No hogs in the peanut field, but to the east in a non-agricultural field (has planted long leaf pine seedlings), I spotted a bunch of heat signatures. Due to all the weeds, I couldn't get a clear look, so I just watched and waited for the "deer" to raise their heads, but no raised heads. Decided to walk closer...hogs! Somewhere around 25-30. Slow stalking due to all the dried old weeds and wood remnants from clear cutting a few years ago...lots of crunching noise. One sow stared and stared at me, but I stood still until she moved off. Finally, seemingly after forever, I was close enough and had gotten through the taller weeds so I could see better to shoot, but the closest hogs were boars, oh well. Sows were farther away. Picked the biggest, nearest, and shot. Down he went. Picked up another running (wish I had a video of this one), put the crosshairs about a foot in front, fired, and he did one of those flips in the air and went down. He got partially up, and I shot again. Did have to walk up and put one into his head.
Top pic was the running one. Bottom pic is the first one I shot. 300 Blackout, 125gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, 16" Green Mountain barrel. FLIR RS32 thermal. Crux Ark30 suppressor.
No hogs in the peanut field, but to the east in a non-agricultural field (has planted long leaf pine seedlings), I spotted a bunch of heat signatures. Due to all the weeds, I couldn't get a clear look, so I just watched and waited for the "deer" to raise their heads, but no raised heads. Decided to walk closer...hogs! Somewhere around 25-30. Slow stalking due to all the dried old weeds and wood remnants from clear cutting a few years ago...lots of crunching noise. One sow stared and stared at me, but I stood still until she moved off. Finally, seemingly after forever, I was close enough and had gotten through the taller weeds so I could see better to shoot, but the closest hogs were boars, oh well. Sows were farther away. Picked the biggest, nearest, and shot. Down he went. Picked up another running (wish I had a video of this one), put the crosshairs about a foot in front, fired, and he did one of those flips in the air and went down. He got partially up, and I shot again. Did have to walk up and put one into his head.
Top pic was the running one. Bottom pic is the first one I shot. 300 Blackout, 125gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, 16" Green Mountain barrel. FLIR RS32 thermal. Crux Ark30 suppressor.