huntducks
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I went on a spring snow goose hunt and end up with a ice chest full of pork.
My brother lives down in SE Oklahoma on 10 acres, but has 3000 acres of timber company land on two sides of him, he has lived back there for 6yrs and just started having a pig problem about 2 years ago, they trampel and root up everything in his yard and garden and have destroyed several deer feeders.
I took a small boar (110lbs) last year and saw a few other, he shot a huge boar and lost it several months ago and has seen as many as 10 at a time working the area, I picked a spot where they had been crossing under a fence and through a creek to get a shot, just to thick to hunt them any other way, that first morning I saw no pigs, but did see a flock of turkeys 8 toms, that evening maybe 10min after sunset I heard something moving throught the timber, I could just make out that it was several pigs, the wind was right and they moved right towards the fence there was 5 pigs total that I saw, and I picked out the largest one it looked like a sow at first as it had broken off it's tusk on one side, I had a nice 65 yard shot as it went under the fence, I was shooting a Md 7 Rem. in 243 win with a 2x7 Leupold compact scope and 100gr Noslers the bullet entered right behind the shoulder the pig took off running and went about 60 yards closer to the quad trail :smile-blue where he folded up, when I gutted him out that Nosler went right throught both lungs and took out the top of his heart and exited the front of his chest, I was able to get the quad right up to him and with the aid of a winch pulled him up onto a trailer, we wieghted him back at my brother place which was a long ways away maybe 400 yds, and he tipped out at 192lbs.
I just wish I lived closer as my brother is unable to walk, and I would like to put a real dent in the pig population for him.
My brother lives down in SE Oklahoma on 10 acres, but has 3000 acres of timber company land on two sides of him, he has lived back there for 6yrs and just started having a pig problem about 2 years ago, they trampel and root up everything in his yard and garden and have destroyed several deer feeders.
I took a small boar (110lbs) last year and saw a few other, he shot a huge boar and lost it several months ago and has seen as many as 10 at a time working the area, I picked a spot where they had been crossing under a fence and through a creek to get a shot, just to thick to hunt them any other way, that first morning I saw no pigs, but did see a flock of turkeys 8 toms, that evening maybe 10min after sunset I heard something moving throught the timber, I could just make out that it was several pigs, the wind was right and they moved right towards the fence there was 5 pigs total that I saw, and I picked out the largest one it looked like a sow at first as it had broken off it's tusk on one side, I had a nice 65 yard shot as it went under the fence, I was shooting a Md 7 Rem. in 243 win with a 2x7 Leupold compact scope and 100gr Noslers the bullet entered right behind the shoulder the pig took off running and went about 60 yards closer to the quad trail :smile-blue where he folded up, when I gutted him out that Nosler went right throught both lungs and took out the top of his heart and exited the front of his chest, I was able to get the quad right up to him and with the aid of a winch pulled him up onto a trailer, we wieghted him back at my brother place which was a long ways away maybe 400 yds, and he tipped out at 192lbs.
I just wish I lived closer as my brother is unable to walk, and I would like to put a real dent in the pig population for him.
