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<blockquote data-quote="Dave King" data-source="post: 24245" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Finally!! Someone other than my crew has experinced the tougher variety of hogs.</p><p></p><p>I go down to Knox County TX at least once a year to shoot hogs and I have a fairly difficult time convincing folks that the variety of hogs there are VERY TOUGH. I've shot many and have lost some even though they were hard hit, it's amazing how though they are. (I've also shot a few on some high fence game farms and they died pretty easy by comparison.)</p><p></p><p>I used the 250 GameKing from a 338 Lapua on my second trip to TX (several years back), here's some "tales".</p><p></p><p>First shot(s) were at a sow in a sounder of running hogs, first round broke her leg but had little effect. Second round was about 300 yards later as she zig-zagged through a dry wash, this round cut a large gash into her side as it entered the chest cavity blowing many feet of guts out and she died within a few feet.</p><p></p><p> A few minutes after this encounter a LARGE boar stepped into a ranch road about 250 yards distance, I centered the crosshairs on the forward chest and touched off the round. He reared up a bit (like Silver in the Lone Ranger) and bolted through the fence. I was sure this was a good hit and patiently waited for the next hog. A short while later another entered the road behind me and I swiveled around like a tank turret (I'm prone on the ground) to get a shot off. There were many hogs piled up in a queue to get through the fence. I lined up on a smallish, quartering to, sow (100 - 150 pounds)in hopes of getting a pass through into another small hog. The round entered in the forward chest left side and never exited, I found it lodged unter the skin over the right hip. Distance to the hogs on this shot was about 80 yards. The sow gave no reaction to being hit other than to advance her position in the fence queue and leave the area, I found here dead about 100 yards onto the 6666's (I don't know if I killed her of she died of fright from being on the 6666's uninvited <img src="http://images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />.</p><p></p><p> But lets get back to this "Hi Ho Silver" boar! After I'd shot one more sow down near the spot I'd shot the boar I figured I'd go round them up and locate the rest of the dead. I initially passed the closer location for the last sow, there was blood but I elected to find the boar as I was sure he was of trophy status. Once on location at the site of the hit on the boar I spotted blood, globs of fat, bone (ribs I'm sure) and hair. I tracked that hog onto the neighbors place but lost the trail after about 200 yards. This is in a fairly open mesquite and prickly pear covered area. I was certain I'd find that hog as even when tracking I'd find bits and pieces of him along the trail (bone or more fat). The "guide" showed up and squimishly helped track the hog along with my hunting partner. (The guide knew we were not on friendly ground and had warned up to stay clear of the neighbors!) We never did find that hog and we searched for better that an hour before we decided to look for the last (third) sow, didn't find her either.</p><p></p><p> Al "Groceryman" Fiorille went donw this year for the first time, he thought for sure he'd do better on those hogs but came away with a better understanding too. He knocked a running boar over with a 300 Win mag at about 100 yards, great shot too! I was in the act of congratulating him when the thing got back up and ran off. This hog had done the "flopping tuna" thing for a few second and we were both sure it was dead but apparently the hog disagreed. Four of us tracked that hog for uver 1/2 mile and no dead hog.</p><p></p><p>The rule for those tougher hogs is, use a really big gun, breaks supporting bones or head shoot. They are remarkably tough and whatever you do, don't follow them into the Cedar breaks (another story but I'll tell it later).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave King, post: 24245, member: 3"] Finally!! Someone other than my crew has experinced the tougher variety of hogs. I go down to Knox County TX at least once a year to shoot hogs and I have a fairly difficult time convincing folks that the variety of hogs there are VERY TOUGH. I've shot many and have lost some even though they were hard hit, it's amazing how though they are. (I've also shot a few on some high fence game farms and they died pretty easy by comparison.) I used the 250 GameKing from a 338 Lapua on my second trip to TX (several years back), here's some "tales". First shot(s) were at a sow in a sounder of running hogs, first round broke her leg but had little effect. Second round was about 300 yards later as she zig-zagged through a dry wash, this round cut a large gash into her side as it entered the chest cavity blowing many feet of guts out and she died within a few feet. A few minutes after this encounter a LARGE boar stepped into a ranch road about 250 yards distance, I centered the crosshairs on the forward chest and touched off the round. He reared up a bit (like Silver in the Lone Ranger) and bolted through the fence. I was sure this was a good hit and patiently waited for the next hog. A short while later another entered the road behind me and I swiveled around like a tank turret (I'm prone on the ground) to get a shot off. There were many hogs piled up in a queue to get through the fence. I lined up on a smallish, quartering to, sow (100 - 150 pounds)in hopes of getting a pass through into another small hog. The round entered in the forward chest left side and never exited, I found it lodged unter the skin over the right hip. Distance to the hogs on this shot was about 80 yards. The sow gave no reaction to being hit other than to advance her position in the fence queue and leave the area, I found here dead about 100 yards onto the 6666's (I don't know if I killed her of she died of fright from being on the 6666's uninvited [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]. But lets get back to this "Hi Ho Silver" boar! After I'd shot one more sow down near the spot I'd shot the boar I figured I'd go round them up and locate the rest of the dead. I initially passed the closer location for the last sow, there was blood but I elected to find the boar as I was sure he was of trophy status. Once on location at the site of the hit on the boar I spotted blood, globs of fat, bone (ribs I'm sure) and hair. I tracked that hog onto the neighbors place but lost the trail after about 200 yards. This is in a fairly open mesquite and prickly pear covered area. I was certain I'd find that hog as even when tracking I'd find bits and pieces of him along the trail (bone or more fat). The "guide" showed up and squimishly helped track the hog along with my hunting partner. (The guide knew we were not on friendly ground and had warned up to stay clear of the neighbors!) We never did find that hog and we searched for better that an hour before we decided to look for the last (third) sow, didn't find her either. Al "Groceryman" Fiorille went donw this year for the first time, he thought for sure he'd do better on those hogs but came away with a better understanding too. He knocked a running boar over with a 300 Win mag at about 100 yards, great shot too! I was in the act of congratulating him when the thing got back up and ran off. This hog had done the "flopping tuna" thing for a few second and we were both sure it was dead but apparently the hog disagreed. Four of us tracked that hog for uver 1/2 mile and no dead hog. The rule for those tougher hogs is, use a really big gun, breaks supporting bones or head shoot. They are remarkably tough and whatever you do, don't follow them into the Cedar breaks (another story but I'll tell it later). [/QUOTE]
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