Lone Star Hunting Forum

The stroy on this oinker, the one laying down in the first picture is in the Big Game Hunting section.



My friend Robert took the picture above and sent it to me, I shot the hog on one orf the places he manages in his hunting operation, Mesquite Creek Outfitters.

Here is a picture I took.

Nice pig congrats. What did you shoot it with? Caliber I mean.

375 H&H.

Had I have done my job, the gun did every thing it could to do its job.

This one was a classic example of bullet placement from a more than adequate rifle being off.

The question that comes to my mind, is what would the outcome have been, had I been using say Lora's 257 Roberts and the 117 grain bullets instead of the 250 grain bullets I was using.

Would the wound have been as massive and caused enough damage that the pig was able to be recovered or would it have been able to run farther or perhaps even live over the hit.

I guess in my own way, whether mis-guided or not, the reason I like the bigger rifles, is that from my hunting experiences, the bigger calibers have a better chance of creating a wound with a bad shot, that will cause more blood loss/tissue damage, and allow the animal to be recovered.

Again, that is just my opinion, some will argue that it is just an excuse for poor shooting on my part, which in this case I did make a bad shot.

My stance however is that in spot and stalk/stumble on hunting, a person does not know the distance or the conditions the shot they maybe presented with.

I have met lots of folks that have never done anything other than shoot from a stand at a measured distance to a feeder, and they are fantastioc one shot killers, but put them out there on the ground, on their hind legs and shooting at unknown ranges, and they can go thru a bunch of shots with nothing touching nothing.

I want a 375H&H! congrats on the pig

That is the cleanest pig I have seen in a while. Does not look like any mud at all on him.

There was not any mud on him and no smell.

I have not pulled his tusks yet, we have the skull iced down and will process it with the rest of the meat.

I seriously doubt if this animal is 18 months old judging by body condition and tusk size.

This is the second hog like this that I have killed.

About 4 years ago, I killed a boar almost exactly the same size as this one, except it was solid black.

There was no dried mud on the animal, it weighed about the same as this one and was one of the best tasting feral hogs we have ever eaten.

I have a theory, in that these under 2 year old boars get run out of the group by the older females and the breeder boars and they spend their time traveling to new areas and putting on size and weight.

Then when they are big enough they move into an area and challenge the bigger males for territory.

I could be wrong on that, but I know that young males of most hoofed stock get driven out of the herd, and are only allowed back when they have reached a size and strength level where they can drive out the older animals that are beginning to decline in strength/vigor.

Crazy Horse wrote:but put them out there on the ground, on their hind legs and shooting at unknown ranges, and they can go thru a bunch of shots with nothing touching nothing.

Nice Hog Crazy Horse & x2 On the quote I've been there.

Mmmmmmmm....pork.