You're awesome, man! Thanks for posting!
A couple of observations...
On the first hog, I didn't shoot at the first hog because I could not see squat. Y'all kept saying it was a hog and I kept seeing a black spot sort of morph out of the grass and then fade back into it, but I could not identify the spot as a hog or even tell how it was oriented. That was because of the lighting conditions (reflected IR) and high grass. The grass is what I was seeing. So the thermal really shined in that case.
On the second sequence, what I thought was really interesting came after the shooting and discussing who did what. I was certain I had fired twice. The W1000 shooter was certain he had fired once and only at one hog (aside from the coup de grace shot). The videos showed I had fired three times and he had fired twice and had hit 2 hogs. I thought that was really neat and it sort of reflected one of the real benefits of video documentation. He was actually surprised he shot twice and that he hit both hogs! He did well for his first night of hog hunting.
Also on the digital night vision part, the video out of the Pulsar N750 does not include the brightness and contrast adjustments as seen through the scope. I actually had a slightly better view of the hogs even after the shooting started, but it wasn't a whole lot better. The night was calm and smoke hung in the air and that smoke reflected back the IR light as you noted, making for white-out sort of conditions. Had there been a breeze, it might not have mattered, but there was no breeze and so it really did matter.
There is some neat comparative material there. Thanks again.