Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New Trophy's
New trophy room comments
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Classifieds
Trophy Room
New items
New comments
Latest content
Latest updates
Latest reviews
Author list
Series list
Search showcase
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Hunting - other than deer
Snow Hogs
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="PickettSFHunter" data-source="post: 5280570" data-attributes="member: 2171"><p>Exciting night on the farm last night. A group of sows and smaller hogs moved in with the giant boar that's been around for months. I took my son down to try to get him a shot. We stalked in close and saw the giant boar, but my son just couldn't get him in the night vision. The boar was moving around and around a lot. The boar moved off so we moved up into the barn that is right next to where the hogs tend to come out. Not two minutes later, a group of 4 came out of the woods and worked to within 25 yards of us. You could see them plain as day even without night vision with the 8 inches of snow on. I tried several times to get my son on them but he just couldn't see them, in hindsight I'm thinking the wall below the barn window might have been blocking his view or causing shine back on the IR. Ol dad just couldn't seem to get anything to work for him, harder than it seems in the dark.My son ended up just telling me to shoot them because it wasn't the big boar anyway <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /> I didn't have an AR because I'm not yet comfortable with my son shooting an autoloader in the dark so we had his bolt action, that limited me to the one shot before the rest hit the wood line. I waited for them to line up and shot the big sow through the neck, the bullet passed through and hit the little one in the head. My son loved getting the tractor out in the snow and loading them up. These are going to be breakfast sausage mostly. Now we focus on trying to get the big boar, I would have shot it months ago but he would be mad about it for sure if I did <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😆" title="Grinning squinting face :laughing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" data-shortname=":laughing:" />. Bullet was a handloaded 350 Legend with a 125 Grain Maker TREX, great bullets![ATTACH=full]126281[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PickettSFHunter, post: 5280570, member: 2171"] Exciting night on the farm last night. A group of sows and smaller hogs moved in with the giant boar that’s been around for months. I took my son down to try to get him a shot. We stalked in close and saw the giant boar, but my son just couldn’t get him in the night vision. The boar was moving around and around a lot. The boar moved off so we moved up into the barn that is right next to where the hogs tend to come out. Not two minutes later, a group of 4 came out of the woods and worked to within 25 yards of us. You could see them plain as day even without night vision with the 8 inches of snow on. I tried several times to get my son on them but he just couldn’t see them, in hindsight I’m thinking the wall below the barn window might have been blocking his view or causing shine back on the IR. Ol dad just couldn’t seem to get anything to work for him, harder than it seems in the dark.My son ended up just telling me to shoot them because it wasn’t the big boar anyway 😂 I didn’t have an AR because I’m not yet comfortable with my son shooting an autoloader in the dark so we had his bolt action, that limited me to the one shot before the rest hit the wood line. I waited for them to line up and shot the big sow through the neck, the bullet passed through and hit the little one in the head. My son loved getting the tractor out in the snow and loading them up. These are going to be breakfast sausage mostly. Now we focus on trying to get the big boar, I would have shot it months ago but he would be mad about it for sure if I did 😆. Bullet was a handloaded 350 Legend with a 125 Grain Maker TREX, great bullets![ATTACH type="full"]126281[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Hunting - other than deer
Snow Hogs
Top