Re: Let's see your NV gear and kill pics
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: km2006dmax</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like a good hunt htr. were you using the 95 ttsx or were you testing the 120 sst's?
I got a call from the ranch owner were I usually hunt. The river has been out for awhile, and the pigs are pushed up to the top tearing up around the house. A warden and I are headed up there to put a hurt on them tonight. Just not sure if I want to take the .308 or the 6.8 with some 120's. They've trapped 37 in 4 days so should be a fun night! </div></div>
We were using the 95 TTSX for this hunt. I had some of the 120 SST's in my rifle, in order to shoot them side by side against the 95's, but I never shot at any of these hogs. I let my clients kill all of them, and they did not need any back up shots.
The load they used was 28 grains of Re 7. I worked that load up last year, and I still use it, though I am transitioning to AA2200 since it is a ball powder and gives equal velocity with just a little less pressure.
One of the guys is a really great shot, and he killed the first one, off hand at 150 yards, with the WC rifle and D-740. The hog was quartering away pretty sharply, and the bullet entered just in front of the left kidney and went all the way through the hog. We never found the bullet, despite hacking on it for a while so it must have exited near the right cheek, in which there appeared to be an exit. That would have been about 30 inches of penetration. The pig was DRT....pretty impressive.
The others were either DRT, or one was hit in the liver and ran about 50 yards, but was found dead with the M24, right where the hunter saw it fall.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: km2006dmax</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like a good hunt htr. were you using the 95 ttsx or were you testing the 120 sst's?
I got a call from the ranch owner were I usually hunt. The river has been out for awhile, and the pigs are pushed up to the top tearing up around the house. A warden and I are headed up there to put a hurt on them tonight. Just not sure if I want to take the .308 or the 6.8 with some 120's. They've trapped 37 in 4 days so should be a fun night! </div></div>
We were using the 95 TTSX for this hunt. I had some of the 120 SST's in my rifle, in order to shoot them side by side against the 95's, but I never shot at any of these hogs. I let my clients kill all of them, and they did not need any back up shots.
The load they used was 28 grains of Re 7. I worked that load up last year, and I still use it, though I am transitioning to AA2200 since it is a ball powder and gives equal velocity with just a little less pressure.
One of the guys is a really great shot, and he killed the first one, off hand at 150 yards, with the WC rifle and D-740. The hog was quartering away pretty sharply, and the bullet entered just in front of the left kidney and went all the way through the hog. We never found the bullet, despite hacking on it for a while so it must have exited near the right cheek, in which there appeared to be an exit. That would have been about 30 inches of penetration. The pig was DRT....pretty impressive.
The others were either DRT, or one was hit in the liver and ran about 50 yards, but was found dead with the M24, right where the hunter saw it fall.
