I always look out the back door before bedtime since I have 23 pecan trees. Usually I catch coons or coyotes eating the pecans but lately I had seen a pig 2 times in the last 2 weeks. Well Tonight about 22:15 hrs. I looked out the door and there she was about 50 yards from the back door towards my shop building enjoying some of my best burkett pecans to the North East of my back door..
I had my Bulldog ready and waiting with a full air charge and loaded with Nielsen Specialty Ammo 95 gr swaged hollow points. It is outfitted with a Barsaka FFP Scope and a NiteSite Viper. I grabbed it and returned to the back door and eased it open very slowly. I am glad pigs can't see any better than me in the dark. I turned on the NS and took aim just under the ear and let the slug fly. POP a good head shot but the pig did not go down immediately but started spinning in circles (left hand spin) then it took off to the west still listing to the left. It crashed through some native desert plants just to the North West of my patio then another left turn and it was not 8 feet from me flopping around on my patio but unable to rise. I put one more shot in it severing it's spine and ending it's movements. I dragged it off the patio to the West where I will pick it up and dispose of it tomorrow for coyote bait. I estimate it weighed between 150 and 175 lbs. As you can see it made a bloody mess of my patio which took 20 minutes to wash down.
Now to try to calm down for bed!
Thurmond
I had my Bulldog ready and waiting with a full air charge and loaded with Nielsen Specialty Ammo 95 gr swaged hollow points. It is outfitted with a Barsaka FFP Scope and a NiteSite Viper. I grabbed it and returned to the back door and eased it open very slowly. I am glad pigs can't see any better than me in the dark. I turned on the NS and took aim just under the ear and let the slug fly. POP a good head shot but the pig did not go down immediately but started spinning in circles (left hand spin) then it took off to the west still listing to the left. It crashed through some native desert plants just to the North West of my patio then another left turn and it was not 8 feet from me flopping around on my patio but unable to rise. I put one more shot in it severing it's spine and ending it's movements. I dragged it off the patio to the West where I will pick it up and dispose of it tomorrow for coyote bait. I estimate it weighed between 150 and 175 lbs. As you can see it made a bloody mess of my patio which took 20 minutes to wash down.
Now to try to calm down for bed!
Thurmond
