Spent the weekend in the Texas panhandle with my kids on a hog hunt.
We hunted at night with suppressed 6.8s. We drove around looking at fields with night vision. They grow wheat, hay, cotton and peanuts in that area and most is irrigated with center pivots. The outfitters have 200,000 acres leased for hunting.
It was bitter cold, Close to zero, and windy. They had never experienced that cold and we had trouble finding the pigs but when we did they were in big herds, over 100 both nights. When we found them we’d park and walk in the pitch dark across the fields and get to about 100 yards.
I had never shot night vision before. Add cold, wind, unfamiliar rifles and my shooting wasn’t as good as I’d like it to be but I killed pigs both nights.
We hunted at night with suppressed 6.8s. We drove around looking at fields with night vision. They grow wheat, hay, cotton and peanuts in that area and most is irrigated with center pivots. The outfitters have 200,000 acres leased for hunting.
It was bitter cold, Close to zero, and windy. They had never experienced that cold and we had trouble finding the pigs but when we did they were in big herds, over 100 both nights. When we found them we’d park and walk in the pitch dark across the fields and get to about 100 yards.
I had never shot night vision before. Add cold, wind, unfamiliar rifles and my shooting wasn’t as good as I’d like it to be but I killed pigs both nights.