I am not used to sitting for very long, but have been instructed to sit for a long time. I don’t know if I will be able to make it…

Dusk isn't far away.

That can be the witchin' hour for hogs.

What classic rifle are you using?

Yes, would like to know the load and distance. Hope you brought a scoped rifle for dusk.

You can do it!!

Bait out there or just a normal travel corridor?

Hell yeah 😎👍👍👍

Hog:30

This might help.




By the way, LPB thought you went to the bar......

Nice old 86!

Turkeys at 12:00…

UR very entertaining

one hawg to another

I usually sit for 5-6 hours.

Shrap

since Travis is MIA

Me & you's gonna go on a p/dog safari

Either MT or UT before one of us is ded

Pig down with the 50 100 450…

Fuqkin' A Bubba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn gun porn for sure Shrapnel. Go for it.mb

That's a gorgeous rifle.

Shooting him in the dic is animal cruelty.😂

damm straight

Awesome. Nice job.

Badass😎👍

Great shot!

Beautiful rifle!

Elevated stand will help greatly with scent control. Should finally get into pigs when near dusk

You’re in, PDI is ready, and you are invited…

Nice wood.

155 yards, one 50 caliber bullet from stem to stern…

Beautiful rifle you killed it in style.
One time we were hunting quail on a ranch in Coleman. The turkey were thick. Asked the owner about them and he fell off in a rant. They’d been pestering him a lot. He told us to get whatever limit of quail and them too. We didn’t get any turkey but we saw huge flocks of em.

Smilin’ here, boss.

Alllll right!! Way to go, Kirk.

Yeah right in the pecker! That gun though dang

Beautiful rifle. Congrats!

Sounds great

But once you pull the trigger on this 20-222

You'll build one !!!!!!

Kilt him for sure - did you use black powder ?

Waidmannsheil! 🐗🌿📯

Nice one shrapnel

Very nice!

This 🥴

They are invasive wild hawgs

Kill 'em

He did

I waited until he was facing me and shot him through the head and out the wiener. He tipped over and stuck his little feeties out and wiggled a bit…

Can smell them stinkin' fuggers from here

Damn nice shootin'!

That looks like the ultimate fun.

If I was that chopper pilot, I think I'd insist on good brass catchers on those rifles. I wouldn't want those empty cases rolling around under my feet---or getting lodged someplace where I couldn't operate the controls. Under the feet is bad enough.

I'm betting they have brass catchers

I'd give DeFlaves left nut to spend in an hour on a 'pig flight'

I saw empties flying around in the cockpit during one segment, and I think I saw empties rolling around on the deck as well.

Damn good thread!

So you shot him through both heads....

Good shooting Shrap, and great rifle.

This will be a skill we could use after the revolution starts. Only it won't be piggies.

kwg

Fake news...fake news....fake news....

Everybody knows you gotta have a suppressed AR variant with night vision optics to kill pigs

Fake news...fake news....fake news....

Got a 33 WCF just like yours, except it has a “climbin’ Lyman” for a rear sight. Factory installed back when she was built.

Mighty Fine!

ya,

GWB

The wood on that rifle! Super nice. Congrats on the porker too

I hope tonight your eating potatoes and onions with pork heart.

It over penetrated….

Nice climax.

Nice shooting I like yer style.

They’re the best tasting bullet testing medium a guy can get!

Gorgeous rifle!

That's what's called shooting your load ....

Cool beans and I hope you didn't have to wait too long.

I'd be bored out of my skull sitting there for more than an hour. Maybe if I had a book, a really interesting one, then I'd fall asleep reading it.

Enjoying your hunt from afar here, thanks.

That is perfect Shrap. I am glad you connected. Keep up the good work.

Jim

I've had the priveledge of 1st hand viewing of this rifle. The pic is good but 3' away in real life is way better..mb

So he didn’t trust you to get any closer?😁

Good gun, good shooting, good hog, good story, good pics, good job.

I'd have loved to have heard the WHOP when that big bullet hit!

Nice rifle to be hunting with.

It will be featured in the spring edition of Winchester Collectors magazine…

Boomstick go boom, THWACK!

Nice.

Bad azz!

👍

I did a search for Winchester 50-100-450 and your thread on Hunttalk came up, very interesting rifle. Can you find brass for it, and what kind of primers do you use?

My....how ironic!!

You can find brass on occasion, it is the same as 50-110. They take a large rifle primer…

Are you getting back in the stand today Shrap?

Typically we find there is little need to sit very long.

The number of pigs we have seen earlier than 30-60 minutes before dark and same after daylight I think I could count on one hand if it wasn't for accidentally bumping a sow one morning around 10 with a bunch of piglets with her.

If I'm after a pig I won't go any earlier than forced. In the mornings I will go as quietly and early as I can hoping they are out and will stay out.

That said have killed em with everything but a spear and knife and the easy way now is wait for dark and pull out the thermal. And that said... saw a boar the other day around noon cutting across the neighbors oats patch...

Cool rifle. Good shot. Great coyote buzzard feed there with that boar. Now go shoot one you can eat.

Nice looking rifle and it shoots well too. 😊

Love it, Mate !!

Beauty and the Beast

How can you shoot the mommas and baby pigs?

You just lead them a little less!

I am glad that I am not on the clean up crew behind that helicopter.

My favorite way of hunting pigs was stalking through a dense forest in the mid afternoon on hot days.

The pigs would be laying under the trees with the lowest branches using them for cover. The stalk was usually bent low and looking for a shadow, an ear flick, a movement, anything that proved that dark area above flat ground level was a pig. Shot some of the largest that way.

Never used anything as nice as an '86 though. Never ever saw one in Oz.

Congrats Shrap. A day worth living and a rifle worth owning.

You shoot behind them when you're moving faster than they are.

Kill them all

That was my pig day. I’m in Amarillo headed north to Montana. I had a good time in Texas…

Yell "Happy Birthday" to my brother! He's in Amarillo today.

Have a safe trip home, Kirk.

Just passed through Amarillo about 2 hours ago…

What, no photos of the Big Texan?

https://youtube.com/shorts/x0oWK9W7wNc?si=X_2u7RMiSlf_F9es

I thought I share it for fun.

Damn, that’s a powerful old cartridge..

rost, What thermal are you using right now?

Nice oinker. Looks like that rifle put a few curls in its hair.

Could you see yourself living in Texas?? I never been there. I’ve heard the people are nice there. About 30 years ago I went to a dance in California and danced with a petite young lady that was from Texas. I told her I thought everything was big in Texas. She replied she got there too late!!

Dam nice rifle, killer wood too! Use black powder?

No black powder, 5744 and 315 grain cast bullet.

Nice people and all, but Montana beats it cold, in more ways than one. I wouldn’t live there, just not enough trees on the mountains or water in the streams…

There is something about that Winchester red wood that I really like.

It would be fun to see Texas one day.

It's one hell of a drive across that sumbish from El Paso to Abilene and then to near Texarkana.

Especially after having driven 700 miles from the West Coast the night before.

Worst part in the 70's was finding out they still had dry counties and whole cities..............and Blue Laws too.

I'm born and raised in Texas, but this............



I/ve mentioned on numerous occasions, that should I grow up, I want to be a professional small boy. ( and maintain the sense of wonder/wander I had as a Yonker)

ya!

GWB

I lived there 12 years and only saw a portion of it. A lot to see and do.

I’ve lived all my life in Montana and there is much of it I still haven’t seen…

Most of you guys think that anything east of Great Falls is North Dakota.

Same Same, no???

Great choice in Binos..

Nah. North Pole, maybe.

LOL.

I spent some time in Montana back in '92. I found work on a ranch east of Billings and stuck around a while, but the rancher was one of those who got sideways with EVERYONE he dealt with, and eventually that included me. I left just as the big snows were coming after Thanksgiving. Just as well, I didn't care for the Billings area at all anyway.

I can see how having roots there would keep a guy pretty well tethered. It's pretty much the same anywhere you got some wide open. El Paso used to be that way, but the wide open is about gone and the place ain't fit for human habitation anymore. I'm really liking the San Saba area, but I can't imagine getting the better half to agree to relocating any further south than we are now.

Well.....yeah.

You need to see the Yak. A friend had a place in Troy. 20 years ago he drove me to see it. We drove around this narrow road that went around this Mesa, and it was very steep on the hillside. Then you drop down into the basin of this Mesa and it’s something to see. There was an old store up there and seen a Bull moose out in the meadow. It was June 1st and the snow was just melting.