Got it done on a big boar

[Howie1968]

I finally got it done on a big boar. last night about 830 pm this boar came through I had night hunting lights he offered a 35 yard shot I squeezed the trigger my .54 white mountain carbine sent a hornady great plains 425 into him. I gave it an hour got down found some blood but hogs were moving around everywhere, I backed out and found him this morning

This is what my set up looked like as dark was settling in, we use feeder pens to keep the hogs out of our protein feeders for deer, this boar was jumping in robbing our protein feeder


This is him getting into my protein feeder

 

[jdw276]

Don't know how far he went after you shot him, but as big as that one is I would be tempted to stay in the tree. :surrender:

Congrats on the hit.

 

[azmntman]

Very Cool :thumbsup: What he weigh?

 

[Howie1968]

I have no idea his weight sir, I don't have scales but he was a dominant 7 yr old boar with some great cutters and wetters and a problem for my protein feeder

 

[Martino23]

Did you eat him or leave him for the vultures?

Not sure he would taste very good, but I am no expert.

Just reread your post, I guess he was out overnight and not suitable for the table by the time you found him.

They are everywhere. They dug up some lawns in my neighborhood.

 

[Howie1968]

rule of thumb in texas if a wild hog is left more than 2 hrs don't eat him because of bacteria. boars this size are good eating if you get them quartered and cooled down and let the blood get drawn out by the ice.. You got to understand about texas we are over run by hogs they are prolific breeders can adapt to anything and are obne of the smartest animals alive. there are times when you have to reduce the population, they move in an area deer and other game animals leave. they destroy crops fields and roads carry pseudorabies staph and swine brucellous

 

[Howie1968]

Oh Samuel I just noticed you live in Texas, ive hunted and killed them all over DFW most notably rose park in Mansfield they were coming into the new subdivisions I trapped a lot of them from DFW, I'm in east Texas where we have the biggest population in the state

 

[Britsmoothy]

Get them shot Mr :hatsoff:

B.

 

[dsayer]

That's a big pig!!

 

[BrownBear]

Gotta get that fertilizer back in the soil, so shoot em and rot em.

Great boar!

 

[okawbow]

I love the taste of wild pigs! I’ve recovered pigs shot in the evening, the next morning several times, and the meat was just fine.

The 200#+ boar I shot this year tastes just as good as the 40# pig I shot the next day. The meat is not quite as tender, but makes great breakfast sausage.

The ranch I hunt has lots of oak trees with acorns, and the pigs are fat from eating them.

 

[Howie1968]

Brown Bear, that load I used we had talked about I used 80 Pyrodex select the .54 wonder wad and the hornady great plains bullet, I never recovered the bullet

 

[jdw276]

With the Hornady 425 boolitt, that load and distance did not find it? Yep I would Stay in the tree.

How far did he go?

 

[Howie1968]

according to my gps he went 350 feet or 116 yards, it had been raining off and on during the hunt so at the shot there was no blood, there were other pigs around me so I selected to back out and go back in the morning to find him, the bullet entered in between his chest and left shoulder exited in front of his right hind quarter there was a hole about 3 hands wide just in front of the right hind quarter his insides were dragging, I was 17 feet up a pine in my climber overlooking my protein feeder. I took him as he was always jumping in my pen and cleaning out my protein feeder for the deer. ive got a couple spots on my south property that I have baited up the hogs are in there every night and some during the day, ill be hunting more of them. normally I only bowhunt but since my reintroduction to traditional muzzleloaders that's alls I used is my ,54 white mountain carbine

 

[Micah Clark]

Congratulations . . . I know that saying is that everything is bigger in Texas, but I think you actually shot a buffalo with a hair lost problem.

 

[jdw276]

Good golly, I would hope it was a big tree. He could probably knock one over easily with that kind of damage. They say they are tough and your story proves it to me. Congrats on the success.

 

[Howie1968]

I was 17 feet up a big pine in my summit goliath climbing stand, my lease mates on the property were happy as that hog was costing us a lot of money as he would get in our pens and empty a feeder in a night, he is the only hog to have ever gotten in our pens. in east texas you have to put pens up around feeders and such or the hogs will have your food source gone before the deer get a mouthful

 

[wattlebuster]

Big boar. Congrats :thumbsup: