4 Down with a little side action. Yes with 300WTF Subsonic

bldsmith

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So 5 years ago my son and I took our first hog hunt. Had a great time and wanted to go back. As it often does life got in the way. 2 weddings, a new grandbaby, selling a business, setting up new ones and a major move. I had made a few knives for Dehoginator in exchange for a hunt with my son. We were finally able to get away and do it.

We took off for Tx in the afternoon 30 Mar. Nice uneventful flight arriving in Dallas at 830pm. Rented the car and drove an hour east to Canton. We stayed with our good friend Brian. He was gracious enough to allow us to use his home as our headquarters. Sleeping and showering between hunts. He even showed off his cooking prowess with wild game. So lets get onto the meat of the story.

First night hunt. Dehog has a couple of properties but the one we went to is 1600 acres. Mostly bottom land with some creeks and river front access. Same property we hunted before. Met up with him at 7pm on the 31st of Mar. Went over all the safety and stalking procedures and loaded up. He provided all the equipment. Specs as follows;

2 AR15 Pistols in 300BO
Spikes upper and lower
Lightweight Voodoo BCG
CMMG 8" 1 in 7 barrels
Pulsar XD50a and XD50s thermals
Thunderbeast 7" 30 cal and 30 cal Harvester suppressors.
200gn RAX Maker fracturing bullets.

We get set overlooking 2 feeders 500yds off to each side of us. A large 400 acre pasture to the left and 400acres of bottom land with lots of scrub to the right. Get the thermals out and begin scanning. Joe does have a couple monoculars for basic search with the final ID being made with the Pulsars. About an hour into the hunt Joe sees a signature at the right side feeder. It actually appears like there might be 2. We grab the sticks and our pistols and off we go. Single file stalking in closing the distance to 75yds. The wet ground made for easy stalking. Everything was quiet except the 400 head of cows wandering around behind us. David, my son, and I set up on bipods. By the time we got there there was only one good sized boar. We line up with a behind the ear neckshot. 3,2,1 Bang FLOP. Boar lurches up stiff and drops like a ROCK. Here is the video. Unfortunately Dehog does not have the means to transfer video to a computer yet so it is what it is.

Curly Shuffle ensues and Joe administers a Coup de gras with his Fn Tac 45 with Octane 45 can. One stalk One Kill

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Haul the boar off a hundred fifty yards or so and take the rear hams and backstraps.

Back to the Side by Side get the meat on ice and back to scanning. See a lot of movement. Deer, rabbits, a racoon and yes the cows. It made it a bit difficult to really see but we made do. I was scanning a small lane where Joe had reported seeing hogs run through before. Suddenly out of nowhere a coyote appears. Just behind a small clump of brush about 40yds away. Standing orders are to shoot any Hog, yote, racoon or dillo seen. She was looking right at us. I lined up and took the shot behind the shoulder. In my haste I did not turn on the recorder. She did the Coyote twirl for a few seconds and went down.

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Small female. I was amazed there was no exit even from that close of a range. Everyone says how the 300BO will bore right through and not have enough energy to knock anything down. Well with the right bullet it does the job. AND MY FIRST COYOTE!!!!!

More coming.
 
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bldsmith

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We continue scanning. About an hour later David spots movement at the second feeder. 2 spots were milling around. Off we went, this time we grabbed the kill bag with the good knives. Again we stalked within 75 yds. This time the 2 stayed put and were milling around eating corn. We chose our tgts and wait for a good broadside. The boars shift and I have to aim for the boar in the back. Good broadsides, 3,2,1 Bang. Stiff legs and FLOP. Keep on em for a few and one jumps up and gets another 3 rounds. It was probably dead but it never hurts to put a couple more in em if in doubt. Video cuts off just before I let out a great Guffaw. Could not help myself. Love the Stanky Leg!


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Off to wash these muddy messes up and harvest the meat. That would do it for the first night.

Not sure how much they all weighed but we took 68lbs of boneless meat off the first 3 pigs with just the rear hams and back straps.

Next night, 1 Apr. Met up same time on the same property. Same spot even. Only difference is a pretty good thunderstorm was rolling in. All the cows had vacated the bottoms and were all up top by the feeders. About 10 minutes after we pull in, still light enough to see well, David spots a sounder off in the left field. Probably 30 strong with a bunch of adults and a passel of shoats. All different colors including a couple pibald. We take off to see if we can cut them off. They ran off into the thick and we could not see them. We got close and I could see movement in the brush but I did not want to take that poor of a shot. They snorted and off they ran. I was amazed at how quiet they were. We returned to the side by side and scanned until about 12. David spots a Dillo and puts it down cleanly. Joe decided the video was too graphic and did not post it. Then the storm got too close for comfort. We headed up to the top and the safety of the cars. We slept for about 2 hours and allowed the storm to pass. Well get far enough away to feel a bit safer.

We loaded up once again and decided to just cruise in the side by side to cover more ground. This was 2:30am. We came by a large open lane and I spotted a sounder just coming out of the brush. We bailed off and took off on the stalk. Unfortunately they were off in the thick by the time we got there. We could see the silhouettes of a couple and took the shot. David connected hard on one and I think I hit a youngun. Unfortunately we could not find any blood and did not recover either of these. But the sound of the impact from Davids hit tells me there is probably a dead hog out there today. We keep motoring along and get to within a couple hundred yards paralleling the highway. I see another hot spot. Again we bail but it disappears. We load back up and David tells us it is still there. We are still not certain that it is a hog so Joe Motors on closer. It is right in the middle of the road now. Facing straight towards us. I can clearly make out the snout and we actually close to about 40yds in the side by side. David for some reason cannot make it out cleanly from the top of the side by and thinks it's dillo. I know it is a hog and take aim over the hood of big red. Joe gives the count and I blast it right behind the left eye. It went straight down with not so much as a twitch.


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Nice Fat Sow. We took the back hams and straps and even took the front shoulders off this one. Brian wanted a nice young sow to render fat. She had a bout an inch of fat so we collected the hide and as much of the outer fat as possible for Brian. In all, not including hide, David and I put 93 lbs of boneless meat into the coolers. Even had enough time to get most of it frozen solid. We were allowed about 47lbs each plus the cooler. It worked out perfectly.

This was such a fun hunt. I cannot wait to get out and do it again. Thanks all for reading.
 
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gshock

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Good hog and coyote so far ... keep it coming!
 

Chopperdrvr

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You just need to move this way. Nice going guys. Glad your trip was successful and you had a good time.
 

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Good hogs down!! And a prairie poodle as icing on the cake !! Congrats
 

gshock

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I was in Portland and Tillamook OR two summers ago ... definitely nice area!
 

bldsmith

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I wish I could go back today! However I need to keep the boss happy too. Then there is work.

I have a line on a possible large ranch in Tx that a friend of mine is hooked into. He hunts there regularly. All the hogs you can shoot and the landowner just wants them gone. No fees but also no guide. That works for me. Hopefully it works out.
 

437

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That was a great read and watch. You will be eating well this summer! I'm frickin losing it waiting to get back at it....2 more weeks!
 

der Teufel

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Yeah, c'mon back an' get sum mo' hogs!
 
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