First smokepole piggy

First muzzleloader success actually. We have lots of wild hog here in Florida and It's my preferred hunt animal. I went to a WMA that is very scrubby and unfortunately gives the hog the advantage. They see you before you see them a lot of the time. I managed to get pretty close before I ran out of cover. I had to crawl the last bit to get a clear shot. I picked out a smaller one as I am unsure of the ability of a 45 rb against a large hog. Well it worked out and brought home some xmas pork
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Good job I always wanted to hunt them.

Awesome kill! Looks like Christmas dinner

Nice eating size. I've been trying to kill one with my SxS BP shotgun but they've been holed up around here .. except at night.

very nice, perfect size. Where did you hit it and what kind of range were you at?

Congrats. Good eats there :thumbsup:

:hatsoff: Well done. Congratulations

Great job on that pig!

Ah ha!!!

Great job!!! (again) from a fellow FOHAF member!!!

Well that's outstanding...major Kudos sent your way !!
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Relicshunter: Very fine job on a great eating hog! That looks like an early CVA/Jukar .45 percussion rifle you have there. Did I guess right? We had one of those some years back, and by golly it got 'er done.

I was about 15 yards with a small window that was clear. I hit a little up from the elbow, usually that takes the heart/lungs but it just got the front of the lungs. I am used to using a slug(shotgun).

Yes it is. It shots good, I am just not sure how much of a hog I can drop with it.

Great job!! Ron

Great job, fine story, great little gun. :hatsoff: What was the ball size and powder charge?

I used a .440 ball with .015 patch over 50gr. of fffg 777

relicshunter said:

I was about 15 yards with a small window that was clear. I hit a little up from the elbow, usually that takes the heart/lungs but it just got the front of the lungs. I am used to using a slug(shotgun).

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Sweet. Well done, There's been some debate in the past about what caliber is "gun enough" for pigs

Congrats on a fine hunt! :thumbsup:

Wow...great job. I figure anytime you have to crawl to finish a stalk, you've really earned the game! :hatsoff:

Fantastic! It sounds like you got closer than I would even want to. :shocked2:

Have you tried Lee REAL conicals? They might work better on larger hogs.