I spotted this group of hogs way across the same field I’ve been shooting them in recently and immediately jumped out to engage them.
I’ve got some flir breach footage of my approach that I’ll post when I get home and can hook up to my computer, but for now here is the pulsar video.
So I make my way and get within about 75 yards of the hogs and decided to go ahead and set up for the shot because I was worried the wind could cause trouble since I was somewhat down in the bottom.
Just a moment prior while watching them I thought they had alerted or smelled me because they all abruptly ran about 30 yards away from me. Luckily they immediately resume to they are milling about.
So here I am about to pull the trigger, and I’ve already got six or seven of them added to the scorecard of my mind for tonight when my hopes and dreams are dashed to pieces at the sound of a hammer drop with no corresponding cartridge report.
Ugh!! I wanted to cry. And I gave serious consideration to backing out a couple hundred yards to try and fix the problem and start fresh. Evidently the bolt closed just enough on this particular reload to allow the hammer to function but the round was obviously not chambered all the way because it did not go off.
I stayed put and by some miracle I was able to eject that round, leaving the bolt locked open, then got in position so that I could hit the magazine release and be ready for action if they ran. I drop the bolt to slam home a fresh round without any of the pigs even so much as looking up at me.
Here we go......
Hahaha.
I guess I won’t bore anyone here with excuses of not being seated on the shooting sticks properly in, every time I fired a shot everything moved back-and-forth and it was just awful. Never could get in front of that when I was shooting at.
Here's about 3 minutes worth of video from the breach as I make my final approach. About 175 down to the final 75 or so yards.
Also, here's a pic when I first stopped my truck and got out. I'll go back in the daytime and rangefind the distance, but I think they are 500 yards away in this photo. .
I’ve got some flir breach footage of my approach that I’ll post when I get home and can hook up to my computer, but for now here is the pulsar video.
So I make my way and get within about 75 yards of the hogs and decided to go ahead and set up for the shot because I was worried the wind could cause trouble since I was somewhat down in the bottom.
Just a moment prior while watching them I thought they had alerted or smelled me because they all abruptly ran about 30 yards away from me. Luckily they immediately resume to they are milling about.
So here I am about to pull the trigger, and I’ve already got six or seven of them added to the scorecard of my mind for tonight when my hopes and dreams are dashed to pieces at the sound of a hammer drop with no corresponding cartridge report.
Ugh!! I wanted to cry. And I gave serious consideration to backing out a couple hundred yards to try and fix the problem and start fresh. Evidently the bolt closed just enough on this particular reload to allow the hammer to function but the round was obviously not chambered all the way because it did not go off.
I stayed put and by some miracle I was able to eject that round, leaving the bolt locked open, then got in position so that I could hit the magazine release and be ready for action if they ran. I drop the bolt to slam home a fresh round without any of the pigs even so much as looking up at me.
Here we go......
Hahaha.
I guess I won’t bore anyone here with excuses of not being seated on the shooting sticks properly in, every time I fired a shot everything moved back-and-forth and it was just awful. Never could get in front of that when I was shooting at.
Here's about 3 minutes worth of video from the breach as I make my final approach. About 175 down to the final 75 or so yards.
Also, here's a pic when I first stopped my truck and got out. I'll go back in the daytime and rangefind the distance, but I think they are 500 yards away in this photo. .
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