if you wudnt wound them, you wudnt have to go into snake infested places to look for them. perhaps you best leave the hog killin to thoz hoo no what ther doin?
I've only wounded maybe 2 hogs in 12 years when I'm hunting, and my brother about the same, but my cousin insists on using a .243 and even when he hits them in the right place, they don't always drop right there. If he didn't bring half a cow to our outings and do most the cooking, we'd probably stop inviting him. We've finally told him to get a rifle big enough to not bounce bullets off their hides, so he is looking around for something a little better to shoot them with. Being a City boy, we don't trust him to follow them into the brush. Would sort of be like sending you into a bar to get a bottle of water! Probably wouldn't see either of you again!
As far as leaving the hunting to those that know what they are doing, I personally think that you are the master of Photo shop and haven't shot a hog yourself in several years! That is the reason that you stopped showing your picture with the hogs. Hard to photo shop yourself into the pictures of the hogs your neighbors have shot!
I do have a question for you though. Back when you were an honest hunter, about 20 years ago, you posed with a picture of what looks like a 20 mm cannon. See below:
What is it? You claimed you and another guy shot a hog with it from about 1/2 mile away and across a creek where you couldn't retrieve the hog. We knew then it was BS, cause there ain't no cricks that deep in Texas! But was always curious about the rifle.
Heck, without even seeing it in person, will give you $50.00 for it.
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