7 hogs down!!

I was out this morning trying to locate a large feral hog that I had shot a bit earlier. I knew I had thumped her pretty solidly, and she'd left a blood trail that I was able to follow fairly easily. The trail led me into a "blind canyon." Being a certified coward, I went back and got my .45ACP carbine before venturing into the canyon, just in case the old girl still had some fight in her. I found her, "stone dead", in a mesquite thicket. As I circled her to make sure she really was as dead as I wanted her to be, I kicked up a nest of piglets. Must have been 20 of them! After I recovered from my initial surprise, shock and fright, I began picking them off, one by one, until they exited the canyon. I only got 7 of them; ranges varied from point blank to about 50 yards. I dragged them out into the open, went back to collect the sow, and she was gone! No blood trail; just disappeared! I walked the whole canyon again, (on high alert, I must add!) but never found a trace of her. I just may be getting too old for this kind of fun!!

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Nice job! Hunting hogs is a lot of fun!

Wow! Can't imagine how fun that was!

Lots of fun there! Love killin hogs

It was fun, but being knee-deep in pigs, with them running in all directions (including right at you! They weren't charging me, they were confused and panic stricken.), is almost more fun than I can handle!

Great shoot in'. Can we get some details about your rifle? What kind of carbine is that? Were you using fmj's or hollow points? Thanks

DennisPA, it's a HiPoint carbine with an ATN Red Dot scope on it. I hand load 230 grain Speer HP's with the maximum safe load of Unique and a CCI military rifle primer. If my game cameras show some large hogs visiting the area, I'll load up with 225 grain cast bullets so I can get some serious penetration and bone breaking on the big guys.

I always wanted a good excuse to say this......
Nice Shootin TEX :thumb:

Awesome!!!