A couple real nice boars

[Buffalobwana]

My nephew shot it and it fell in the river.

I shot one yesterday behind the house.

Nephews pig was 205lbs. Mine was 199 lbs, but, I swear this pig is bigger than the one my nephew shot.

Just for reference sake, to people who don't weigh their pigs and never have, these were 300 and 350 lbs.

 

[Baker Alvin]

Great Job, Thank You for sharing and the Pictures.

 

[scrmblr1982cj8]

Nice ones!

 

[Buffalobwana]

Thx guys.

I forgot the important gun/load issue details.

6.5 Grendel to the neck. Leupold VX-6 — 3-18x56 windplex red dot reticle (love the glass, not fond of that reticle, but it's killin stuff, so I manage ) LaRue QD mount.

BCM lower, Geiselle trigger. I built the upper w an 18" Alexander Arms fluted SS barrel. Love that gun.

SciCo Omega can

123 Hornady SST with 27 gr TAC, CCI 450 primer (very accurate load in this gun). 2385 fps MV.

The more stuff I kill with this Grendel combo, the more I'm sold on this round as one of the best AR-15 hunting rounds. Over a dozen pigs. All DRT. Neck shots will do that. 5 Antelope, 1 whitetail, 2 Aoudad. All of them were very quick clean kills.

The exit wounds on a couple of the Antelope were quite ridiculous. Like a 300 mag. Maybe it was just odd expansion.

Anyway, I love that gun.

 

[California hog hunter]

Nice hogs

 

[Allen Kitts]

That's awesome, congrats on the nice tuskers. Very jealous up here in Montana.

 

[Buffalobwana]

That's awesome, congrats on the nice tuskers. Very jealous up here in Montana.

Thanks. These boars are the exception not the norm. Tusks like this are hard to come by. The uppers on this second pig are exceptionally long.

 

[HSmithTX]

Get him to sit another 3-4 feet behind the pig and it could go 375-400 pounds at least. Big cutters for a 200 pounder for sure, we don't see anything with teeth like that on my lease that isn't a LOT heavier. I am thinking over here where everything is green year round and the food is nearly unlimited for them they just get bigger and heavier at a younger age? Our 175-200 pound boars have cutters that just clear the lips or maybe up to 1" out and we kill 3-1 young boars over anything else, probably more like 125-175 average weight because we only weigh one here and there when we can't agree on how huge it is LOL. We have super high hunting pressure all around us, my best guess is the big hogs are educated enough to stay well clear of the feeders and cameras. When we do see them it's usually completely dark or very close and momentary sighting, no data other than they tower over the rest of the sounder, they look like they are twice the size of the rest.

 

[Buffalobwana]

Both of these were shot in daylight.

Biggest we see is 250 (on an actual scale). Only had one that I suspect was 300+. But I couldn't get him loaded.

I guess I'll never know.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Nice work you two. Have to agree the Grendel is one effective round! Love mine.

 

[Buffalobwana]

Popped another big toothed boar yesterday. It's a bad week to be a big tusker around here. This is the broken side. The other side is a bit longer.

He was incredibly thick at the shoulders. Like a 250-270lb pig, but very slim at the waist. Weighed 190 even. Really shocking how little he weighed.

We just came out of the worst drought I have seen in 32 years of hunting here. I wonder if the body weights are suffering a bit?

 

[long450]

Great job and keep it up!

I have two 6.5 Grendels and several 6mm Grendels they all get the job done and are fun to shoot.

 

[Oldsteelrunner]

Excellent Work! Many thanks for sharing.

 

[Oldsteelrunner]

Excellent Work! Many thanks for sharing.