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Now it's not that I never shoot hoglets with bullets under .264", its just that I'm much more comfortable at ranges of 100 yds to 300 yds with a larger caliber.


one taken

at +/- 30 yds on the run with my Sako Riihimaki, 222 Rem and 43 gr. TSX'ers.



Snared this pretty good sow and dispatched her with a 223 and 60 gr. Nosler Partitions at about 20 yds.



Snared this guy and nailed him at +/- 30 yds with my 6 x 45 and 70 Gr. Sierra Blitz's.




I nailed this sow at about 25 yds. with my Rem. Model 7 in 6 x 47 using 70 Gr. Sierra Blitz's.




A 257 Bob AI with 110 gr. Accubonds @ 35 yds or so



and got this two-fer with a 25-06 and 110 Gr. Accubonds @ +/- 90 yds.


ya!


GWB

Spotted pigs get extra points

one from a while back that I never was able to close the deal on!




not really "spotted" but unusual markings!



and another



yup!




GWB

Did you buy that Lone Star just for the picture?

Abso-tively, posi-lultely not!


As you well know,

LSB is the national beer of Texas!















not Africa!






but it dang sure works in Texas










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GWB

Gotta support a brewery that puts out cammo cans on there beer come hunting season!















and celebratin' my new "chitter" at the lease!




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GWB

Nice knives

Dang geedubya!

We usually cart ours down on the sand bar in the creek. Don't need a grubbin' hoe down there!!

no live water, and no sand-bar, but plenty o rocks!.

Luckily I hunt with some good guys. We always pay it forward, in case the next man gets caught short!

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GWB

I knew that was the way you felt about Lone Star. Local bar in my area stocks it and I try to keep their stock as fresh as possible.

Geedubya awesome knife colletion. Who made the black handled semi skinner?

Back to the original question. I would prefer a Partition or a mono over the BT but they will work just fine. If a good solid opportunity presents itself go for a behind the ear shot and almost anything will work. Body shots I have had them run off even with a 375 H&H when the shot was not just right. I would rather be over gunned/bulleted than under as no telling when one 350 lbs.+ may show up.

The 257 will do fine I have used cartridges as light as the 17 Rem and various 22s before but mostly for CNS shots.

RickT,

I am told that DSC will be serving LSB. Perhaps I'm flattering myself but I would like to thing that my photos (although not copyrighted) had a small part to play...

http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1411043/m/9771022632?r=9771022632#9771022632

and

I like Beer!

http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/3611043/m/9171002802?r=9171002802#9171002802

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GWB

That knife was made by Gary Music, Music Made Knives. He calls it his "Buffalo Skinner"

Buffalo horn scales and 52100 Carbon steel.





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GWB

Every time I read through this I want to go pig hunting!!!

Well I got to the bar to get a Lone Star and they were out! Just the beginning of a not fun evening at the bar. Should have gone hunting.

I’m from Connecticut with family in Bastrop and Red Rocks.
I got to get down to do some hoggin.
Just haven’t made the time and research an outfitter.
I would like to combine it with a deer hunt.
I only want some of the meat for my nephews and brother to try.
What’s a good time of year to hunt?

A couple of thoughts.

In Texas, any time you go afield "hunting" you should have a hunting license. An out of state license for non-indigenous game ( predators, hogs etc.) for 5 days can be purchased for +/- $48.

Hogs and predators, varmints can be hunted 24/7/365, by any means, (but tannerite wakes up the neighbors at nite) and they and they inhabit a good part of the state.

Texas has some public land, but accessing it can be problematic.

Best if your family has or knows someone with access to private land, that has a trespass lease with stands already set up for hunting.

I do the 24hourcampfire Hog Hunt each year, but other than that, I do not do paid hunts here in Texas so I could not help with that.

I do know that there is a put and take outfit out of Goliad Texas you might want to stay away from.

There are numerous "game ranches" that have just about any critter that money can buy. These "game ranches vary in size from a hundred acres or so to thousands of acres. Many are high fenced. I don't do high fence, myself. However if one only has a day or two, he can go there, stay in nice accommodations, and be put in a stand or do a spot and stalk with a guide who generally knows where different species hang out.

May through October it can get rather warm, and the hogs do not move about other than at 30 minutes before and after shooting light and at night, If you are not set up for night hunting,those months could be slim pickins'. Our archery season starts for "deer and Turkey (either sex) in October, General season in November and runs through first week in January in the north and central zone, through the last week of January in the South Zone, and if an MLD permit is owned, through March IIRC. Our "colder" months are generally Jan-Feb-March.

I know "Ingwe" who posts here comes down quite often to hunt Axis, Aoudad, black-buck and hogs (IIRC he is here now, maybe hunting Nilgai). You might PM him, or touch base with DVDgeorge through a PM on the 24hourcampfire hog hunt thread that is in the Campfire forum.

If your family members are hunters, they can probably assist you.

Best of luck.

GWB

Wish I could take you to my lease. We have plenty of the SOBs, too many piece of cshit Aoudads too.








You can see the pigs in the first two pics. Thirty or so in the bunch behind the feeder [ you can’t see all of them in the pic], nine or ten in the second bunch. Around 40 pigs out there at one time.

Feral pigs can be killed with just about anything so you can clean up the scrap bullets off your shelf and be fine. I have killed them with .224 and 55gn Sierra's through to the .460 Weatherby loaded with 500gn Hornady's and never saw a cartridge that was not capable. Most deer are in the same, similar weight as pigs so covered with the same, similar loads, meaning, don't cancel an opportunity to hunt either.
John

Feral pigs can be killed with just about anything so you can clean up the scrap bullets off your shelf and be fine. I have killed them with .224 and 55gn Sierra's through to the .460 Weatherby loaded with 500gn Hornady's and never saw a cartridge that was not capable. Most deer are in the same, similar weight as pigs so covered with the same, similar loads, meaning, don't cancel an opportunity to hunt either.
John