Paparock
Previously Rocky W.Latham
Anatomy of the Wild Hog
Hogs can be tricky is you don't know what you are doing. If you do you can kill them with a .22LR using .22 Shorts but you have to know where to aim. I killed a wild boar after it gutted one of my grandfathers cows with one of its tusks in my presence using .22 Shorts by shooting iy in the spine as I was on a hill above it. First, I broke its spine which dropped its back legs then shifted my aim to between its shoulder blades until I got a round into its spine and broke down its front legs. I walked up close and finished it off. Growing up in the river bottoms of southern Arkansas my best friend and I had quite a few close run-ins with large groups of both wild hogs and Arkansas Razorbacks. We always tried to retreat peacefully however the hogs did not always give us that option. That was long before the age of rifle scopes and we were usually carrying .22 LRs as part of my responsibilities were to keep the Cotton Mouth snake and turtle populations to a minimum in my grandfathers three ponds on his farm. After rifle scopes came out I would lie up on the hill and head shoot the snakes and fish eating turtles.
We had someone we named the "phantom" that used to shoot wild boars on different peoples land. Everyone in the community talked about him and tried to figure out who it could be. He only shot at night but no one ever heard any shots or saw anyone shinning any lights in the fields where the dead boars would be found. He was shooting something larger than a .22 due to the wound channels left through the boars heads. Right through the brain every time. One shot drops in their tracts. I thought he may have been a Korean war vet using an infrared rig and scoped M1 carbine with 110 FMJ rounds due to the wound channels and his range limitations. He never shoot over 100 yards from the road and it was always a brain shot. I don't know if he made himself or somehow bought a silencer because everyone was really spooked and yet not a single person ever heard a single shot or saw anyone jacklighting. He was never caught as long as I was living there and I finally moved over to the next town. It would have been front page news though if he had ever been found. He was very good though, who ever he was.
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