12-10-2019, 09:53 PM
Finally, I have a property with some hogs on it and not just singles. This is my neighbor's place and it is only 35 acres and they have torn him up pretty well. Despite a mass of acorns on the ground, they are rooting. They may be eating acorns and that would not be a huge problem, but the rooting is. My guess is that they are after grubs and other bugs as they are targeting the hay and hay rings areas pretty heavily, but they are sampling all over the property.
Ben and I made it out on Saturday after I sighted in new ammo from Custom Reloads of Dallas. I decided to run with the Speer Gold Dot 120s as they required the least correction from my previous zero point. Ben opted for .22 Nosler that screams 55 gr. bullets at 3575 fps. Hogs came out, we both shot and appeared to hit our targets and our targets promptly turned into a wood thicket and we never saw them again despite two separate searches for them that night.
I figured the sounder would not be back the following night. So I returned on Monday. I did not see the sounder Ben and I hit. I saw a much larger sounder and dropped two before the rains really let loose.
Sorry for the video glitch. Not sure what has happened. It appears to have occurred on recoil of the 2nd shot. If so, there could be several problems, one of which may be that my recorder is dying (most expensive problem). We buy these recorders and put them on our rifles, but they are not recoil rated or tested by the manufacturer for this sort of abuse. With several thousand rounds fired on mine, it may be succumbing. I will have to do some test with it and in the mean time, replace the SD card and check the cables.
[video=youtube_share;S9VomDgf2V8]https://youtu.be/S9VomDgf2V8 [/video]
Ben and I made it out on Saturday after I sighted in new ammo from Custom Reloads of Dallas. I decided to run with the Speer Gold Dot 120s as they required the least correction from my previous zero point. Ben opted for .22 Nosler that screams 55 gr. bullets at 3575 fps. Hogs came out, we both shot and appeared to hit our targets and our targets promptly turned into a wood thicket and we never saw them again despite two separate searches for them that night.
I figured the sounder would not be back the following night. So I returned on Monday. I did not see the sounder Ben and I hit. I saw a much larger sounder and dropped two before the rains really let loose.
Sorry for the video glitch. Not sure what has happened. It appears to have occurred on recoil of the 2nd shot. If so, there could be several problems, one of which may be that my recorder is dying (most expensive problem). We buy these recorders and put them on our rifles, but they are not recoil rated or tested by the manufacturer for this sort of abuse. With several thousand rounds fired on mine, it may be succumbing. I will have to do some test with it and in the mean time, replace the SD card and check the cables.
[video=youtube_share;S9VomDgf2V8]https://youtu.be/S9VomDgf2V8 [/video]
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