Porcine fun (long read)

[LC '92 3]

I have a stock Saiga .308 that I mounted a green laser under the barrel.

Last weekend my brother and I took it out hog hunting. It was getting close to dark

and thats when hogs start moving around here. Sure enough, over at the south end

of a clearing a big black hog comes out and heads straight across that clearing.

He was about 180 yards out and trotting pretty fast.

 

The durn honey Locust and goatweed was so high that we lost him for a minute.

I left my brother at the Ranger and started to head North to try and cut him off.

I spotted him again and my brother got a shot at him moving but missed.

 

My brothers .22/250 going off really got him moving. I turned on the laser and

moved that ridiculous AK-47 safety to Fire and lined up on the big hog.

The laser was really refracted through all the weeds and junk but I

finally got it on hair and let her rip. The Kalashnikov started shucking

empties as I did my best to keep the green dot on fast moving porcine

meat. With that short little barrel it really put out one heck of a

fireball and that was very distracting.

 

The hog kept running in a big arc and I kept firing. The laser was all

over him but he wouldn't go down. Finally about shot 8 he went down. He

wasn't dead but his back legs quit working. Shot 9 missed him and the

Saiga was empty. I pulled out the mighty Tokarev and shot for his head

about 6 times. Black sight against a black target at nearly dark make

for some hard shooting but I finally got him in the brain and that was that.

 

Upon examining him we found he was hit 3 times by the .308, all near the

rear. Once through a rear leg, once way back through the guts, and once

through the base of the tail. I had not been leading him and all shots

were at his rear end or behind him. When shooting irons or a scope I

know to lead but for some reason it never occurred to lead him with the

laser. We always hear about painting a target and I guess thats what I did.

 

Anyway, it was a fun experience. The beer can on him is for scale.

 

I have also since then, followed the easy instructions on this board and modified the factory magazine to hold 10 rounds.

[volkov 318]

nice kill! All these recent hunting threads have me itching to get out there.. and yeah.. I think I'd make that mistake with the laser too, but how do you lead with a laser? Guess they are more for stationary targets.

[nalioth 405]

You'll have to wait a few years before the laser-guided .308 rounds are available - then you can "paint the target" all you like. . .

[elvis christ 451]

Sounds like you could use a little more practice. I'm no hunter, but I've been told by people who do hunt that just blasting at a target like that is kind of frowned upon.

 

Plus, remember what our fearless leader said, during the campaign: "I don't know any self respecting hunter that needs 19 rounds of anything."

[clifton 354]

Fuck it ,, I think you did a damn fine Job... and I smell Bacon...

[LC '92 3]

Feral hogs are not game animals and are a terribly destructive animal to farm lands here. They ruin hay pastures, corn fields and destroy all types of food crops. They are growing in number faster than they can be killed. They also are competing with deer for their food. There are so many here in Texas that they are shot on the spot. Some are processed for food others are left where they fall. Some of the bigger farmers and ranchers hire professional hunters that shoot them from helicopters. All this with the blessings from Texas Parks & Wildlife.

 

To us they are like rats and we shoot any we see with anything we have at hand. We also trap them. Find attached a trap from this summer when I caught 10 shoats in one set. These were processed into some very tasty sausage.

 

As for practicing more, I consider myself a pretty good shot already and the NRA agrees. I am classified as a Master in NRA Highpower Rifle shooting.

 

 

With best regards.

Edited December 1, 2009 by LC '92

[elvis christ 451]

Like I said, I'm just going on what I've been told. I've heard about the feral hogs, I read an article that showed their spread across the US in the last 50 years, they started in the southeast, and are all over the country at this point. It said they were bad about tearing up roads, and everything else.

[Nailbomb 10,221]

Why isn't there more bacon to hunt in NY? I feel so left out when stuff like this pops up.

[spitstickler 1]

Good work, sir. Kill 'em all.

 

I saw one hit beside the interstate yesterday. I image it left a pretty nice dent for some unlucky driver.