But when I do get that perfect one shot kill in daylight with no wind under perfect conditions at 1087 yards, the story will involve the mental calculations of making the shot, the ongoing internal debate as to whether or not the wind could be so pristine, some sort of discussion of the hog's behavior and what his plans might have been for the rest of the day under the glorious sun. There will be the discussion of feeling the recoil into my shoulder at the very moment the crosshairs settle several feet in the air above the hog's head (it will be a brain shot, LOL) because I am only zero'd at 100. Next will come the discussion of time dilation as the bullet soars to the target, its trajectory true, and it taking so very long over the 1265 yards that I was sure that I had missed until that faithful moment that the hog was impacted with such surgical precision that it fell over with nary a flinch, the brain stem severed and no dirty dancing afterwards. I will describe how I lay there, staring through the scope over such a long distance of 1342 yards that the heat shimmer made it hard to tell if the hog was getting up or not, as I waited for the pig to get back up, knowing that such a 1423 yard shot is virtually impossible, nearly all of the bullet's energy spent, but that through some freak of nature and random chance, I had made the shot. Of course, it will be a terribly hot summer day and I will note how the meat had managed to spoil by the time Angry Bird carried me on his shoulders the entire 1506 yards from the my firing position to the Sus Carpe'd. Then there would be the prolonged diatribe on how it was that I made such a perfect 1605 yard shot and didn't manage to have the video working at the time. The bullet would have been recovered, intact, and weighed.
Seriously, if the accounts are enjoyed or folks think there is something to be learned from them, I am happy to share them. I wish they were about great prowess and my amazing abilities to know what the hog is going to do before they even show up, but more often than not, what I describe is a lot of what is going on in my mind about what has struck me as standing out at the moments the events occur. A lot of this is "in the moment" sort of stuff that is soon forgotten, so I try to get it down ASAP after the hunt.
