second SMR hog

[aussie pete]

The pigs had been hitting the bait around 4:30 for the last 3 days in a role so I climbed up in my lock on at 3:30 this afternoon. The wind decided to blow every direction and as the afternoon turned to evening I was not surprised that the pigs had not shown up. When I put together my new Kibler SMR last month, I put a peep sight on it. The advantage for me is it really helps seeing the front sight with my old eyes. The down side is you loose 15 or 20 minutes as it starts getting dark compared to regular sights. It was just about time to give up when I saw a tank of a boar headed down the hill towards me. He never checked up and trotted right into the bait. I settled the bead on his front shoulder and pulled the rear trigger. Click, click , click……. I had set the trigger so light that it would not catch to set the front trigger. The boar spun around and hit the thicket. I could hear him shuffling around in the water as I used my pocket knife to turn the little screw to adjust the set trigger.
When I looked up from fixing my rifle the hog was standing broad side about 50 yards away. By this point the light had faded to the point I was having a hard time making him out through the peep. I stared over the sight and noticed he had a rubbed spot right under his ear. I raised the rifle again and even though I couldn’t really make out the black hog, I could see the white spot. The second the bead settled the gun went off and the cloud of FF black powder blocked my vision. All I could hear was splashing and as the smoke cleared I could see the boar on his side running in place splashing in the swamp.

So far the new .45 is batting 1000. I have taken it to the woods twice and killed a nice hog both times

Nice pig, @Buff1958. Wonderful. A good get for sure! That forest setting looks positively primordial. Pigs can't resist a good swamp hey? Just like here in Australia, they love a good scrounge around in the wet digging for juicy bits. Your hog has a different look to ours; a longer nose, yours a little heftier in the shoulder region, chunkier nose to tail, thicker hair too. Not to walk all over your thread, kudos to you, but compare your fine lad to the one I got here in North Queensland a couple of weeks back. We call this type 'Captain Cookers', given that the explorer Captain James Cook of the barque Endeavour, back in 1770 and a little onwards, would release pigs onto islands, to guarantee a food source on return trips, and in case of shipwreck. Your pig took the load head on, mine, well, fair up the other end. Thanks for your post - I always like to hear other achievements, and to compare species from varying areas of the world.

Cheers, Pete

 

[Buff1958]

Nice pig, @Buff1958. Wonderful. A good get for sure! That forest setting looks positively primordial. Pigs can't resist a good swamp hey? Just like here in Australia, they love a good scrounge around in the wet digging for juicy bits. Your hog has a different look to ours; a longer nose, yours a little heftier in the shoulder region, chunkier nose to tail, thicker hair too. Not to walk all over your thread, kudos to you, but compare your fine lad to the one I got here in North Queensland a couple of weeks back. We call this type 'Captain Cookers', given that the explorer Captain James Cook of the barque Endeavour, back in 1770 and a little onwards, would release pigs onto islands, to guarantee a food source on return trips, and in case of shipwreck. Your pig took the load head on, mine, well, fair up the other end. Thanks for your post - I always like to hear other achievements, and to compare species from varying areas of the world.

Cheers, Pete

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congrats on a good one. I love hunting in Australia. I have killed 5 water buffalo over there and several hogs

 

[aussie pete]

congrats on a good one. I love hunting in Australia. I have killed 5 water buffalo over there and several hogs

Wonderful! You're five buffalo ahead of me . They are highly sought after in the Top End - our only real big game, excluding camels, banteng, and donkeys (which I don't classify as game).

All the best in that lovely pine swamp of yours!

Pete

 

[Spikebuck]

I use the Johnson Peep Sight available from Muzzleloader Builders Supply but install the Williams aperture. All adjustments must be done via the front sight since this is a fixed peep.

https://www.muzzleloaderbuilderssup...?cart_id=4250076.22712&next=25&product=Sights

 

[Spikebuck]

How did you mount the aperture? Did you drill into the tang then thread something on? Would you please provide pictures so one might be inclined to duplicate... I had cataract surgery a while back, and keeping the front sight in focus can be quite the chore!

See above post.

 

[bushytail]

Congratulations on a nice hog. I like your gun too.

 

[Kansas Jake]

It would be fun to hunt pigs in Kansas but the State spent a bunch eliminating them and I fully understand why. They carry diseases detrimental to commercial hogs along with the huge amount of damage to crops, habitat and other wildlife.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I use a peep on my deer rifle, I hunt mostly in the evening, the deer usually show up in the last 30 minutes of light. I paint my front sight white for dim light hunting, I can see the front sight so well as seen through my peep it is almost like cheating when the light is getting dim.

 

[brazosland]

Love the SMR in .45!

I keep going back and forth about fancy wood, or the more common plain stocks.

 

[Buff1958]

I have some with extra fancy wood and some with plain cherry. I like them all