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    Shot my first boar a couple weeks back

    That is a wooly bugger! Very nice!
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    Fattest Hog To Date

    I have seen a couple of sows that might be comparable to that, but it has been since before the droughts. They were not barren. One was very pregnant.
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    Update on the Super Pigs

    Gestation is about 115 days and so could have 3 litters a year based on the math, but have more like 3 litters every 2 years, on average.
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    Acceptable Accuracy For Hog Hunting

    It is of our own creation, but not because of bringing in hogs for hunting. Feral hogs have been around for a very long time. As long as there have been hogs in Texas, they have been free-ranged, though that is now largely out of favor. In fact, free ranging was common world wide. My father...
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    Update on the Super Pigs

    Hunting is effective if you have the right circumstances and and effective hunter. For example on primarily open lands, low crops, etc., 3 nights a week, hunting can work very well. Where hunting fails is in high crops and heavily forested areas where the hogs are harder to spot in the first...
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    Acceptable Accuracy For Hog Hunting

    I don't know how much of this was in jest, but I had something like this happen at my place with a guy that I allowed to deer hunt my land. Long story short, he didn't get a deer and when I was next on property, I found one of my LARGE oaks next to my gun range had a target on it and 20-30...
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    Lever actions for shooting pigs

    My first hog back in 2009. I was using a red dot and a white flashlight. Marlin 1895 .45-70.
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    Acceptable Accuracy For Hog Hunting

    That looks to be a hunter with paper plate accuracy. Paper plates are 9" across as is the kill zone of a deer (approximately), so if your shots are on the paper plate, you hit the kill zone, hence you are zeroed good enough. Full sized hogs have a similar size kill zone, but not smaller hogs...
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    Update on the Super Pigs

    Deer mostly eat stuff and rub on some trees and that is their damage. Hogs eat grown plants. Hogs eat sprouts. Hog eat seeds. Hogs will root up the ground for freshly planted seeds. Hogs will root up the ground for insect. Hogs raid ground nests for eggs. Rooting promotes erosion. Hogs...
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    Update on the Super Pigs

    Saskatchewan doesn't have real winters? https://agbio.usask.ca/news/2019/05/wild-pigs-invade-canadian-provincesan-emerging-crisis-for-agriculture-and-the-environment.php
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    Whole herd of wild hogs charge two hunters!

    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...
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    Whole herd of wild hogs charge two hunters!

    Based on how they reacted with their lack of familiarity or comprehension as to what was happening, I would not be surprised if that sounder had never been hunted before.
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    Help Needed for Infrared Rifle Scope

    This only works if you understand the parameters of what you are discussing, and when you don't, you cross thresholds unbeknownst to you and you end up unsolvable issues or a bad result. The smart direction to go would be to first find what fits your needs and to build out from there instead of...
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    Help Needed for Infrared Rifle Scope

    So you want a higher performance thermal to mount on a .338 WM, which I assume is for longer distance hunting, but you want a bargain basement priced optic? A .338 WM puts you at over 5000 joules of energy to deal with and not a lot of thermals will handle it. Drop down to a measly .308 and...
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    Hog hunting & Hog calls

    Hog calling does work, absolutely. I have done it several times. We have seen hogs come running from more than a half mile away. When they come, it is amazing. The downside is that I have also seen calling drives hogs away. For example, hogs are in the neighbor pasture and we attempt to...
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