Hogs moving in for the winter - 01/07/13
This is becoming a yearly trend on our place, which adjoins a Federal Refuge. When December/January rolls around, the water in the refuge begins to build up and all the acorn crop/browse is finally gone, so they move onto us in heavy-duty fashion. We see them sometimes during the early fall when they come to attack the hayfields, but we mostly start working on them when things get cold and muddy.
Here's a few recent ones, killed by our family and some friends that sometimes hunt with us:
(30-06 150gr Core-Lokt)
(308win 150gr Core-Lokt) This young man was really excited, but you'd not know it by his expression.
(25-284 100gr E-Tip)
(308win 168gr Ballistic Tip)
(7mmSAUM 160gr AB) This photo was taken on Saturday. Dad and I both went out with our M7's, his being a .350RM, which should be a heck of a pig rifle with 225gr TSX's. The hogs came to visit me on my stand, and he rounded things out by dropping a doe in the mix.
We've taken three others recently that we got no photos of, but it's getting to be addictive and will give us something to do once we're done hunting whitetails. I imagine we'd feel differently if they were giving us heck during deer season.
Anybody have any experience with the various solar-powered "glow lights" that mount to barrel feeders? We can now hunt them at night and plan to keep corn going in the evenings so we can maybe get a couple more during the coming months. Not much we can do with the stinking old boars, but the sows often wind up like this:
Here's a few recent ones, killed by our family and some friends that sometimes hunt with us:
(30-06 150gr Core-Lokt)
(308win 150gr Core-Lokt) This young man was really excited, but you'd not know it by his expression.
(25-284 100gr E-Tip)
(308win 168gr Ballistic Tip)
(7mmSAUM 160gr AB) This photo was taken on Saturday. Dad and I both went out with our M7's, his being a .350RM, which should be a heck of a pig rifle with 225gr TSX's. The hogs came to visit me on my stand, and he rounded things out by dropping a doe in the mix.
We've taken three others recently that we got no photos of, but it's getting to be addictive and will give us something to do once we're done hunting whitetails. I imagine we'd feel differently if they were giving us heck during deer season.
Anybody have any experience with the various solar-powered "glow lights" that mount to barrel feeders? We can now hunt them at night and plan to keep corn going in the evenings so we can maybe get a couple more during the coming months. Not much we can do with the stinking old boars, but the sows often wind up like this: