Last fall, and a rare morning hunt for me, I had just shot three piglets who came into a different feeder on another property.
I had systematically been killing off the whole family starting with the sow. There were nine piglets with her on trail camera and miraculously they kept coming back to the same feeder. Over the next few weeks I made it my mission to eliminate all traces of that big family from the property.
Anyway on this morning I got three of them at once. It had rained dogs and cats the night before and everything was extremely muddy particularly the recently plowed corn field that was adjacent to the location of a feeder of mine.
It was so foggy that morning, while walking out I was not even able to see the road where I left my truck parked. I heard a car traveling down the road and looked up to see two large black objects running towards me evidently's having been spooked by the sound of the vehicle approaching.
For over a year now I have yet to connect to running hog with a rifle. But today's the day, I took my time swinging the gun as if I were shooting a dove with a shotgun, put the crosshairs on the nose of the lead boar and squeeze the trigger. Amazingly this worked. Not only did it work but I dropped this sucker in its tracks, while running at 75 yards with my 300 blackout.
I thought to myself, wow I can really do this. I followed the same lead, crosshairs on the nose, squeeze the trigger without losing any swing of the rifle and watched the second boar buckle and drop to its knees. The second animal was on it's back kicking around so I went ahead and plugged him again to be sure to keep them there.
The first three were small enough that I could carry them with one hand at the same time.
These were too heavy for me to load by myself, lucky for me I always carry a tow strap. I have no idea what these two weighed because I tried to hoist them up at the same time to get them loaded in the back of my pick up and broke the winch. This actually caused a severe injury to my face. It's split my upper lip and chin wide open, I had to go to the plastic surgeon for repair.
Five, for one mornings hunt was not too bad. In spite of the injury, it was worth it.