Tuesday evening pigs.......

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Last evenings hunt. Got to the woods at about 4 and split up to work the swamp. Working into the wind very slow managed to slip up on a buck but as we have a 3 point on a side rule and even though by the shape and size of the rack I was almost certain it was big enough I had to let him walk. Only 25 yards out but in some thick stuff.
And for what it is worth he was LOOKIN' not feedin'......

About 20 minutes after slipping up on the deer I heard a hog squeal. Worked over to the palmetto patch where it sounded like he was and sure enough there were 3 or 4 of them in there. After about 15 minutes of crawling and looking I managed to spook them off into the swamp.

So I go trailing after where I though they went. It was up-wind so I figured it might work. After about 10 minutes of this I hear Louann's rifle go off way back in the swamp, sort of behind where I had just come.

When I get her on the radio she's not sure where she is. Breaks out the whistle she carries for just such occurrences and starts blowing the heck out of it so I can find her. And yes we have gone through the finding her by whistle thing a time or two before.

Finally find her and the hog. Hog was head shot at about 20 yards. She had to stalk it for a while before getting a clear shot.

Rich ( The brother in law. )shot the other hog about a half mile away.

Got both hogs back to the house and started cleaning. As soon as the skin is off the first one Louann strips off a bit and starts running back and forth with plates of fried hog for us to munch on while we finish the hogs.

Ain't it grand being a bit rural.............................

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
 
Ain't it though! Love the rural life! Love having lots of agriculture around as all you gotta do is be respectful and the farmer will be happy you get pigs off his place!
Brent
 
Rifle is Youth Model New England Firearms Handi-Rifle in .243 Win. with a no magnification Red Dot on top.

At the end of the deer season, at which time we can still hunt hogs here in Fl. but can not use rifles, the .243 barrel gets swapped out for a rifled 20 ga with a Red Dot. Use the Hornady sabots in it.

She's taken about 20 hogs and one deer with it over the last 7 or 8 years.

The little rifle is very accurate for what it costs. With a regular scope it will punch inch size holes at 100 yards. But then for the hog hunting we usually do the Red Dot is the ticket.

And it weighs in at about 5 1/2 pounds..............

I'll admit that the .243 is not my first choice for hogs, like a bigger slower bullet that leaves 2 holes myself, but she is careful to get close and I've never had to follow one more than a few yards after she shot it.
 
All you need to know about Louann is that I got her when she was 16 ( 30 years ago ) and you can not have her!!!!
 
i had one of the nef 243's as a truck gun before i moved to the city,shot a bunch of coyotes and a few deer with it. great little gun
 
Here in FL, we can hunt hogs anytime with anything as far as I know. You may have a County or WMA rule where you are but down here it's anything goes unless I've missed something.
 
Swamp, In florida the hogs on public land are property of the ownership. State and most WMA lands only allow them to be hunted during hunting seasons. Many WMA's do not allow us to run hog dogs ever:mad:
Brent
 
We hunt public land ( WMA ). When the regular deer season ends we have another, aprox., 2 months of "small game" season during which hogs are legal.

One of the regulations during small game season is "no centerfire rifles", hence the rifled barrel for the 20 ga.

One interesting thing in Fl. is that while you can not have a centerfire rifle during the small game season you can have a centerfire pistol. And we all know that in the modern world there are plenty of centerfire pistols chambered for what were traditionally considered rifle cartridges.

You can also use your muzzleloader.

And truth is many modern pistols and muzzleloaders are more accurate and shoot flatter than does my old .35 Remington so I am confused as to why the law has not been changed.

One other querk to the law is that during "small game season" it is not required that you wear orange safety vests. For our part we take into consideration the arms our fellow hunters are apt to have in the woods and the fact that the hogs are as colorblind as the deer and we ALWAYS wear it.
 
Woo-eee! Good job on those hogs. I am headed out in the a.m. to try and do the same thing and this is just what I needed to see to get me even more ready to go to it. Wish me luck y'all! :D
 
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