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  • Double Naught Spy

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    It was back in 2009 when I killed my first hog. It was a huge sucker and I was hooked. I killed a whopping 3 hogs on my place that year. I would hunt 1 or 2 nights a week if there was a hog showing up on the game camera. They had invaded the property where I had my shooting range and were doing rooting damage and I didn't approve, LOL. In 2010, I killed 2 more. In 2011, I started helping out with hogs on a buddy's place and killed another 5 that year. As you can see, it was a slow progression at first, both in the number of hogs and technology used. By 2015, I was helping people on several properties, mostly in north Texas. Flash forward to 2020 and despite the game camera being down, and billions of acorns still on the ground, I had hog prints on the ground under one of my feeders. I was at 999 killed and recovered hogs and so #1000 turns out to be at the place where I killed my first hog. I have a box blind now next to the tree stand where it all started and the feeder is a little farther out, but same meadow on the same property...

     

    MTA

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    Have seen jack and shit as far as hogs go for this year. They have been on my trail cam twice in the last 6 months

    Congrats on 1000
     

    Double Naught Spy

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    Have seen jack and shit as far as hogs go for this year. They have been on my trail cam twice in the last 6 months

    Congrats on 1000

    Thanks! I feel your pain. For the first 7 hogs this year, I had been out 11 times with 80+ hours of time invested and more than 1700 miles of driving. That comes with checking about a dozen properties in total, usually 7 or 8 per night.

    Oh, and the trail cam died at my place, LOL.
     

    Double Naught Spy

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    smittyb, my go to is Federal American Eagle Speer TNT 90 gr., followed by Hornady SST 123 gr.

    I have not tried the Barnes Vor-tx yet. I would be willing to be that like similar copper rounds, it goes in, opens up, penetrates well, burrowing nice hole through the critter.
     

    Double Naught Spy

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    I have hunted with .50 Beowulf and have a partner that hunted with .458 Socom. Hogs don't fly backwards when hit. Both are very good calibers, but they work just like every other caliber. If the hog flew backwards when hit, then your buddy would fly backwards when he pulled the trigger as well - Newton's 3rd Law.
     

    smittyb

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    I have hunted with .50 Beowulf and have a partner that hunted with .458 Socom. Hogs don't fly backwards when hit. Both are very good calibers, but they work just like every other caliber. If the hog flew backwards when hit, then your buddy would fly backwards when he pulled the trigger as well - Newton's 3rd Law.
    Why are you bringing physics and reason into this? His buddy likes to see them fly, dang it.
     

    seeker_two

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    That place east of Waco....
    I have hunted with .50 Beowulf and have a partner that hunted with .458 Socom. Hogs don't fly backwards when hit. Both are very good calibers, but they work just like every other caliber. If the hog flew backwards when hit, then your buddy would fly backwards when he pulled the trigger as well - Newton's 3rd Law.
    Watch his videos....if there's anything you won't do unless pigs fly, you'd best get to doing it now....

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    smittyb

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    Watch his videos....if there's anything you won't do unless pigs fly, you'd best get to doing it now....

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    I watched that video, and I gotta say, he’s the most irresponsible shooter I’ve ever seen. Twice he shot with a cow directly behind his intended target, and I mean DIRECTLY. On top of that he says in the video, he’s still “figuring out “ the 458.
    I hope to god they were his cattle on his land, but something tells me otherwise.
     
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