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I spent last week at the ranch with my brother dove and hog hunting. We had a great time and I was able to shoot a couple nice boars. First boar was shot with a Ruger No 1 in 220 Swift and weighed 185lbs. The second one was shot with a LH Model 70 in 300 H&H and weighed 210lbs.
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You didn’t kill near enough!!
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Looks like a lot of fun that pork is delicious how was the dove hunting?
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Good on ya!
Care to extrapolate with details???
ya!
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Sounds like a good time. What load in your H&H?
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I got tired of playing hunting lease roulette so in 2014 we bought a place just north of Cisco and built a 3 bedroom house on it. The place is overrun with hogs but we like shooting them so all good. I usually use a 9.3x62 but my brother talked me into trying the 220 Swift with a head shot. While it worked I feel better with a larger bullet in the chest.
I had the 300 H&H built on a LH Model 70 and this load was a 180gr TSX over 4831. I'm still playing around with this one but can't argue the TSX did the job with a one shot flop.
Dove hunting on our place isn't great but we shot enough to make it interesting and got to see the labs work.
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Keep up the good work. I find that feral hogs are ideal to break in new-to-me guns. And to be sure less used guns still function OK.
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