Hog with Mini-30
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Hog with Mini-30
I know it isn't a Rossi but I broke in the Mini-30 with a nice hog using the Tulammo 154-grain SP just about 10:30 last night!
I worked this fellow the previous night from 4 to 6 am in the morning but could not seal the deal. There was a bunch of lighting arching high overhead so it was giving me some illumination but also spooking the hog.
The cloud cover was break up yesterday evening so I went out as the moon was coming up over the horizon. As I approached the pond spillway that he was working, I had a bunch of deer run pass me. They were really buggered so I figured it must be him. Heck the horses have stopped using the pond, I think he chased them away! Anyway, I stopped 70 yards out as the grass in the spillway provided a good background. Within 90 seconds he stepped out of the grass. I had a great sight picture through the Weaver with the ambient light so I shot him through the front of the shoulder quartering to me. Boom, he dropped, like a sack of rocks.
I closed the distance about halfway, hit him with the light ,and shot him through the head. I hate approaching a big hog in the pitch dark, I've been rolled a couple of times.
Practice makes perfect! I went up to my range at dark with just a streak of light remaining. I shot the "hog" (really a gong) over a dozen times at 100 yards. I do this often when I figure the stars are aligned.
I worked this fellow the previous night from 4 to 6 am in the morning but could not seal the deal. There was a bunch of lighting arching high overhead so it was giving me some illumination but also spooking the hog.
The cloud cover was break up yesterday evening so I went out as the moon was coming up over the horizon. As I approached the pond spillway that he was working, I had a bunch of deer run pass me. They were really buggered so I figured it must be him. Heck the horses have stopped using the pond, I think he chased them away! Anyway, I stopped 70 yards out as the grass in the spillway provided a good background. Within 90 seconds he stepped out of the grass. I had a great sight picture through the Weaver with the ambient light so I shot him through the front of the shoulder quartering to me. Boom, he dropped, like a sack of rocks.
I closed the distance about halfway, hit him with the light ,and shot him through the head. I hate approaching a big hog in the pitch dark, I've been rolled a couple of times.
Practice makes perfect! I went up to my range at dark with just a streak of light remaining. I shot the "hog" (really a gong) over a dozen times at 100 yards. I do this often when I figure the stars are aligned.
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Re: Hog with Mini-30
That's a nice looking hog congrats on the first kill with the ruger. I wish there where hogs were I live but I only get to shoot deer
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Hogs are a great tool, I'm glad they are here despite the mess they create.Flynnismydog wrote:That's a nice looking hog congrats on the first kill with the ruger. I wish there where hogs were I live but I only get to shoot deer
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Re: Hog with Mini-30
Nice work! We don't have hogs here, but I've heard they are in the eastern part of Ohio.
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Re: Hog with Mini-30
Congrats Michael, nice hog and good shooting. I also enjoy the range time in dim light. More closely matches reality of life.
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Re: Hog with Mini-30
Great pig, good meal there.
I don't see them every day here, more pigs in the North Island of New Zealand.
Nice to be able to get out like that.
Most have to travel to shoot food.
Or are your Pigs like Australia lots of TB?
Keep up the good work,.
KH
I don't see them every day here, more pigs in the North Island of New Zealand.
Nice to be able to get out like that.
Most have to travel to shoot food.
Or are your Pigs like Australia lots of TB?
Keep up the good work,.
KH
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The State wildlife guys and USDA tells us not in this area. I don't know if I would recognize it if they were.Kiwi-Hunter wrote:Or are your Pigs like Australia lots of TB?
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Re: Hog with Mini-30
Thanks, the bullet scooted on through.Mrlucky353 wrote:Nice!
Was the bullet recovered?
Michael