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I've got a house on 15 acres. There's no wearing out hogs if you have them with enough nearby land to support transient populations. If you have young kids and a job, you'll not be able to make a dent in them, provided your place has the habitat to attract them. Late nights and early...

Thanks, Flint. The 405 is certainly capable. I wish it had been a bigger hog (or two) so I could see how it did stretching its legs a bit before hitting the mud. It didn't look like it got much chance to expand before it exited that pig; it just punched right through. Next time, hopefully...

Hey Flint, been a couple years since I've visited this thread. Good to see it's still going. As you know, I finished my .458 SOCOM build about 4 years ago, just in time for all my time to be taken up with my (now 3) kids. Unfortunately, the hogs don't let up, and have have over the past year...

I checked the rifle and realized I'd zeroed it for my 350gr Berry's plated rounds, instead of the 405gr Remington loads I was using. Turns out I was about 3 inches low at the 22 yard distance I took my shot from. The shot was slightly rushed and he was walking mostly away from me, so I...

I apparently blew it, too. The other two hogs I mentioned in my last post came in at 8:40 last night, left a little while later to tear up the edge of my driveway and trails, then came back again at midnight. I built an 8ft secondary stand and put it about 15 yards from the feeder a few weeks...

Thanks, Flint. That hog hasn't shown up on my cameras again, but he's previously left and then shown back up again after a few days following an encounter. I've got two others that regularly hit the feeder, sometimes together, sometimes separately. They tend to do so at 4am, though...

I've had a bunch of new hogs tearing up my property, and one in particular seems to like digging up the trails themselves. He's also started tearing up the edges of my driveway. That same hog also likes to show up right about the time or shortly after the feeder goes off at 6:30. I've...

I've been playing cat and mouse with this big boar that's been hanging around for the past couple of weeks. I've come close to him a couple of times (i can hear him take off in the brush when I get close), but he keeps coming back to the feeder both morning and night (it's set to go off...

Twmaster: $300 will get you a barel and a bolt: http://www.tromix.com/socom-parts.htm And of course, the ejection port has to be enlarged.

kbbailey: thanks. I've yet to come across another person who has a Nikon VSD sight, is that what you have? I may replace it with an aimpoint or something with better battery life someday, but I really like the option of a 1MOA dot for precision shooting.

A little under a year ago, up in post 1421 of this thread, I posted some photos of a sow, a bunch of shoats, and a couple of young boars in tow. Since that time, I've been confounded by the irregular pattern hogs will come through - usually one or two nights a month. I was out working on...

I'm sure there's plenty of feeders on the neighbors' properties. There's something like 300 acres or so of wooded land in the direction they come from, and about that much on the other side of the road from me as well. They've got plenty of places to live without much worry of harassment...

There's only two directions from the tank that they would likely come from, and every photo I've got has them coming from the same direction. The property is almost entirely wooded, and there are definite trails they frequent. I've tracked the trails back a ways, but enough of the...

Hey Flint, Ever see a hog come to feed during a thunderstorm? I had this ugly guy come through the night before last, in the middle of thunder, lightning, and rain! He stayed for over an hour hoovering up every trace of corn on the ground. I don't have a pig measuring stick out there yet...

I've got a .223 pig load set up using the Speer #1053 70 grain Semi-spitzer soft point and Ramshot TAC that runs a little over 2700 fps. I haven't had the opportunity to use it on a pig yet, but my research leading up to picking the bullet showed that it's quite popular with folks for 22-250...

Before I started my .458 SOCOM build, I developed a .223 load intended for hog hunting, using the Speer 70 grain Semi-Spitzer Soft Point (#1053) bullet and Ramshot TAC. I was able to get 5.56 NATO data from Ramshot set up for 68 grain bullets, and started from there. The beauty of the Speer...

I don't have land, but have a membership at Lone Star Gun Range. I get a little tired of shooting paper as well, so when I'm out there I take a bunch of clays with me and set them up on the berm and blow them up there. It's much more engaging and gives some fun immediate feedback from your...

Well, the A-Team episodes are full of awful gun handling and unrealistic shooting. One in particular that comes to mind is an episode called "The White Ballot" where Hannibal shots of one of the BG's hats off... with an AK-47 (if I remember correctly) from the hip firing 3 shots in full auto...

Anyone else notice that 4 out of those 5 nuns are breaking rule #3?

I agree. I always feel better after going to the range. I think some of it has to do with disciplining myself to become better, learning to control my mind and body to improve accuracy. I think the focus required in target shooting is also therapeutic in a way. It allows me to clear my mind...