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<blockquote data-quote="Double Naught Spy" data-source="post: 2949630" data-attributes="member: 55410"><p>You are right. A sow may have two litters a year. In fact, it is possible for them to have THREE litters per year. According to the good folks at Texas A&M, it is more like 3 litters every two years most of the time. </p><p></p><p>Can they have 12 in a litter? Sure, but the norm is 6-8. The most I have seen from the birth canal of a sow is 14. [MEDIA=youtube]Lf6GK_KV3bk[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>Hitting runners is tough. A lot of hog hunters don't understand leading target and really have no clue how far the hog might traverse in the time it takes for the bullet to leave the chamber to the then reach the hog. And to be fair, it is hard to judge hog speed and if you don't have a rangefinder or know the distance, it is hard to know how long it will take your bullet to arrive. It can be difficult to learn. I made a lot of great shots on hogs over the years where the hog literally ran out from in front of the bullet.</p><p></p><p>I don't know that they looked like clowns either, except for the video title, but I do believe it is a mistake to be sitting on your butt and shooting at a sounder of hogs. You can see the difficulty the hunters have in tracking the running hogs because in their seated positions, they have little freedom of movement and those hogs were able to fairly quickly run beyond the point at which the hunters could traverse their rifles and because their fat butts were in the chairs, nobody could physically move position to continue firing on the hogs. One finally does, but then he is carrying his shooting sticks on his rifle, no longer benefiting from the stability the sticks off and in now wrestling with the torque of the rifle caused by the swinging of the sticks and he moves around trying to shoot hogs.</p><p></p><p>Had the hogs been charging these guys, they would have been on the losing end of the deal, literal sitting targets. Not clowns, but not well played at all. I say this based on my own experience as well. I have made this very mistake and had hogs run toward us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Double Naught Spy, post: 2949630, member: 55410"] You are right. A sow may have two litters a year. In fact, it is possible for them to have THREE litters per year. According to the good folks at Texas A&M, it is more like 3 litters every two years most of the time. Can they have 12 in a litter? Sure, but the norm is 6-8. The most I have seen from the birth canal of a sow is 14. [MEDIA=youtube]Lf6GK_KV3bk[/MEDIA] Hitting runners is tough. A lot of hog hunters don't understand leading target and really have no clue how far the hog might traverse in the time it takes for the bullet to leave the chamber to the then reach the hog. And to be fair, it is hard to judge hog speed and if you don't have a rangefinder or know the distance, it is hard to know how long it will take your bullet to arrive. It can be difficult to learn. I made a lot of great shots on hogs over the years where the hog literally ran out from in front of the bullet. I don't know that they looked like clowns either, except for the video title, but I do believe it is a mistake to be sitting on your butt and shooting at a sounder of hogs. You can see the difficulty the hunters have in tracking the running hogs because in their seated positions, they have little freedom of movement and those hogs were able to fairly quickly run beyond the point at which the hunters could traverse their rifles and because their fat butts were in the chairs, nobody could physically move position to continue firing on the hogs. One finally does, but then he is carrying his shooting sticks on his rifle, no longer benefiting from the stability the sticks off and in now wrestling with the torque of the rifle caused by the swinging of the sticks and he moves around trying to shoot hogs. Had the hogs been charging these guys, they would have been on the losing end of the deal, literal sitting targets. Not clowns, but not well played at all. I say this based on my own experience as well. I have made this very mistake and had hogs run toward us. [/QUOTE]
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