Went for meat hogs with a couple buddies

[MosinRob]

Went out to PA for some meat hogs again this year. Their is really no challenge to it but the meat is sooooo good and it's always a fun time with my friends. We had quite a bit of variety firearm wise. I was using a .54 Lyman Plains pistol and my backup was a 1945 Sako M39. Was a good time, lots of laughs and good times. I shot mine with the pistol and was a great shot right in the lungs. When we walked over to her she was wobbling and wanting to roll off the cliff, So I pulled the M39 out and put it right through her head and she dropped. I know a lot of you guys dont like these hunts, but some do so I thought I'd share. Btw I was wearing the camera glasses and they fogged and I pulled them up so that's why the camera is aiming at the sky lol.

.54 shot

 

[satx78247]

NICE piggy!!! CONGRADS.

yours, satx

 

[Lonegun1894]

Nice pig! Congrats on the good hunt. If I may ask, do you notice if they act any differently when the temps drop to those levels? There is more snow in your photo than I have seen in the last 3 years combined. Usually we get a half inch to an inch, several times a winter, if at all, but not enough to cover it like that. I think the last time I saw that much snow was the winter of '09/'10. Which is kinda funny cause I've been a lot further North, and our snowfalls down here are a joke in comparison.

 

[Patocazador]

I guess that this was a commercial 'pay for kill' operation. That pig is very fat and very short-haired for a wild hog. I actually think I would prefer your hog to the scrawny, tough ones that run around down here.

Years ago when I started hunting, I wanted to kill a "wild boar". I went to a place in Tennessee and shot one with a pistol. I was completely ignorant to the fact that all of the "wild boars" there were put and take. A couple of years later I was filling up my truck in Georgia when a trailer load of "wild boars" arrived at the gas station on its way to the same place I hunted.

 

[roundball]

Looks like a good hunt...looks cold too...LOL!
:thumbsup:

 

[MosinRob]

They don't move much in this cold. They stay herded up and don't run. Other times when I've gone in April they run

 

[MosinRob]

It's a Carolina hog. Meat hog. It's on a preserve yes. It's not a epic hard challenge hunt. It's just a nice easy hunt with good friends. The meat is just so good. It's nice to know where it came from and I process it without all the bad stuff mass producers put in it

 

[MosinRob]

It was lots of fun. Was 5 degrees and windy lol

 

[Spikebuck]

Looks like some good eatin! :hatsoff:

 

[Bob J]

Good shooting, MosinRob! Looks like you will have plenty of BBQ this year :grin:

 

[BillinOregon]

Nicely done Rob. (And using my handloads, the Sako M39 I once had was and still is the most accurate surplus military rifle I have ever owned.)

 

[house]

Sounds like a a great time and looks mighty tasty too!