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Finally shot a hog...
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I stayed at my son's house one more day and we went out this morning... We weren't even there 30 minutes and I got a hog...
It was 80 yards staring right at me...
I fired and hit him right between the eyes...
I laying prone on the bipod...
Sorry about the crappie pictures the lighting wasn't great...


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#2
Way to go. Nice shot even at that range. Between the eyes is hard to do, at least for me. Seems like I drift right or left. I bet it pleased your Son to take Mom hunting!
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#3
Congrats, all that shooting and load workup paid off in the field. Congrats
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Sinclair Wrote:Way to go. Nice shot even at that range. Between the eyes is hard to do, at least for me. Seems like I drift right or left. I bet it pleased your Son to take Mom hunting!

Thanks, he was very happy to see me nail one...
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kmon Wrote:Congrats, all that shooting and load workup paid off in the field. Congrats

Thank you...All that loading and range time helped a lot...
The load I used was the 120 Barnes TTSX with 26.5 grains of Benchmark...
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Some pictures of the area we hunted...
I'll be going back in March...


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#7
Congrats Diane! A TTSX between the peepers will do it every time.

Now, the smoking and grilling starts!
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BlogSarge Wrote:Congrats Diane! A TTSX between the peepers will do it every time.

Now, the smoking and grilling starts!

Thank you...We gutted it and skinned it then dropped off at the butcher... He's going to smoke it, make sausage and bacon...
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DIANEB Wrote:I stayed at my son's house one more day and we went out this morning... We weren't even there 30 minutes and I got a hog...
It was 80 yards staring right at me...
I fired and hit him right between the eyes...
I laying prone on the bipod...
Sorry about the crappie pictures the lighting wasn't great...

Noiceee! Cool

Congratulations! Well done!
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Harpoon1 Wrote:Noiceee! Cool

Congratulations!

Thank you...
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#11
Good shootin, congratulations.
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gwtx Wrote:Good shootin, congratulations.

Thank you...
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#13
The cool part of being able to hunt this area is my son lives 15 or 20 minutes from it...
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#14
DianeB,
were you able to do any Necropsy to see what the 120gr. TTSX did internally? were you able to recover the TTSX?
curious,
-tdbru

p.s. nice shooting. Hope you get some more while your there.
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DIANEB Wrote:Thank you...We gutted it and skinned it then dropped off at the butcher... He's going to smoke it, make sausage and bacon...

You can’t go wrong with some great sausage and bacon! Now, if only you could afford some eggs to go with it…
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tdbru Wrote:DianeB,
were you able to do any Necropsy to see what the 120gr. TTSX did internally? were you able to recover the TTSX?
curious,
-tdbru

p.s. nice shooting. Hope you get some more while your there.

My questions too!
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BlogSarge Wrote:You can’t go wrong with some great sausage and bacon! Now, if only you could afford some eggs to go with it…

No the bullet exited right behind the right ear and the hole was small...I really don't think it expanded...
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DIANEB Wrote:No the bullet exited right behind the right ear and the hole was small...I really don't think it expanded...


I would say either did not expand or could have expanded fully, shed petals inside the head and just that shank of the bullet exited. Hard to know without either checking with metal detector, or dissecting the head with out the bullet to look at
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#19
Congratulations on the hog and on great shot .
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sundowner Wrote:Congratulations on the hog and on great shot .

Thank you...
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