Night Vision NV and thermal kills...

He could not wait for sunset. PVS-30 gets a night off. Average size boar, 150 y gr. One & done.
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Oh snaps, a .20 bolt gun is on the top of my gotta have list.

Very nice!
Last week it looked like this, with a 26" shiny stainless heavy varmint barrel, but I got tired of lugging around a heavy ass long rifle, so I shortened it to 18 inches and bead blasted it to a matte finish.
I loaded some 40 grn Vmax rounds and I sighted it in an hour before I went out.
I got lucky that with 23 grns of 4198, it shot dead on out to 200 yards.
It's just as deadly as ever and a lot easier to carry around.
Don't think about getting a .20 cal, do it !!!

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Got back from my annual Ham Slam. Pretty slow because of the weather, but caught up with a few. These two went out in style, although I thought pigs were supposed to be excellent procreators and it seems the boar might have missed the mark....

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that was prolly his 4th or 5th hit for the day. she was full
 
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that was prolly his 4th or 5th hit for the day. she was full
Yeah, we got into a big group of em that had a couple boars making all sorts of noise and commotion rooting around all the sows. It didn't end well for a few of them. There was one gigantic pig in the group that stood out over all the others, but I think it must have been a big ol pregnant sow. It didn't have the head structure the boars have and it looked like it was pretty much spherical. Every time I go down there I am stupefied by how much damage those things can do, and how resilient they must be. I am just a tourist but I bet in our group we have shot well over 500 hogs down there in the last 21 years I have been there.
 
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Yeah, we got into a big group of em that had a couple boars making all sorts of noise and commotion rooting around all the sows. It didn't end well for a few of them. There was one gigantic pig in the group that stood out over all the others, but I think it must have been a big ol pregnant sow. It didn't have the head structure the boars have and it looked like it was pretty much spherical. Every time I go down there I am stupefied by how much damage those things can do, and how resilient they must be. I am just a tourist but I bet in our group we have shot well over 500 hogs down there in the last 21 years I have been there.
Where do you go? I live in az, would love to travel down south and give the pigs a good beating, but don’t want to pay a bunch of money to do it. For as big of a “problem” that they are, people like to capitalize on them.