Gonna hunt my other night hog spot for this one this weekend

I checked my cameras at my other spot for hogs and got this boar coming in every night ill use my climber with my night red hunting lights im really considering taking my flintlock .50. he is a good size hog and I know ill have to hit him right low and close to the elbow for a heart shot not sure if I can get a 177 gr roundball through both lungs and get an exit to drop blood on the ground may go back with the .58 or my .72 double pedersoli

Howie there is gonna be some fence fixers proud of you when you get that old fellow out of there .LOL.RW

Howie, take one of your big guns, this one is 300+ pounds. BTW, I like your idea of the red head light shining on white sights....”¦.robin :hmm:

Deputy dog I believer ill take either my 58 or my 72

Howie, I would love to talk you into using the flintlock... but I'm a believer in large chunks of lead when it comes to large critters, so use what you are comfortable with and good luck on the hunt.
PS - We want pictures!!!

......and bacon :slap:

!!!! HOGZILLA !!!!!

Looks like the state fair is missing it's champion... :haha:

Texas could definitely take some trophys for swine......They grow em big and in never ending supply down here.

With the drought in East Texas it has been easy to find hogs, find water and they are there.

Looked out my dining room window and there was 16 of various sizes working along the edge of the lake last week, there are now 13.

Folks at times tend to over estimate weight of hogs, there is a lot of ground shrinkage that happens.

Every once and a while a bit of growth... However, very rare...

I asked my hog trapper who trapped on a lot of different places how many honest 300 pound hogs he trapped in a year?

He said he normally would get one in a year of trapping.

Guessing the weight or antler/horn size of animals is always tough for even the experts. So, here's my best guesstimate (258) pounds on the hoof!

Let us know how things turn out and good hunt'n!

Hard to tell since the photo is at night and the hog is so light colored. Head does not look very large and the hams look kind of small.

Your estimate looks fair.

When I was night hunting hogs at the feeder with my flinter, I used a green headlamp on lowest setting to see the sights. A touch of white (pearl?) nail polish on front sight helped considerably. The .58 or .72 would be the better option on big 'uns :thumbsup:

"When I was night hunting hogs at the feeder with my flinter, I used a green headlamp on lowest setting to see the sights. A touch of white (pearl?) nail polish on front sight helped considerably"

I am extremely color blind, red/green, is there an advantage to a red light versus green light and white/pearl on the front sight?

From what I can figure out from some websights, pigs can see colors in the violet, blue, green range best. Colors in the yellow, orange, red range are the least likely to be seen by a pig with red giving the poorest visibility.

(Best hog vision = 439-556 nm. Worst hog vision = 590-700 nm.)

Zonie said:

From what I can figure out from some websights, pigs can see colors in the violet, blue, green range best. Colors in the yellow, orange, red range are the least likely to be seen by a pig with red giving the poorest visibility.

(Best hog vision = 439-556 nm. Worst hog vision = 590-700 nm.)

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Geez, thanks from a person who was told to watch out when driving for yellow and red flashing lights on the highway and which ones to stop at.

Thanks, Zonie, I appreciate your help, no wonder I am lost when buying clothes.

Back when I was a press room foreman at a small newspaper I had a pressman that was TOTALLY color blind....just red, he could NOT see red. One day he printed 8000 copies of a Dillards ad with red smeared (quite nicely) from top to bottom :rotf:

ff sorry

azmntman said:

Back when I was a press room foreman at a small newspaper I had a pressman that was TOTALLY color blind....just red, he could NOT see red. One day he printed 8000 copies of a Dillards ad with red smeared (quite nicely) from top to bottom :rotf:

ff sorry

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It is nice to see folks previous work history to see where they came from, thanks for the insight to you. I learned something.

CC shared some of his lately.

That makes sense, no two animals see color the same even a variance between individuals. My dad is color blind and can't tell the difference red or green and only knows what traffic is illuminated by order. I'm color deficient and can't see the numbers on 1/3rd of the flash cards but can see red and green and able to pass the flannel lantern test which is why I can fly.

I believe the pigs can't see well at all, more than once I have had to step behind a tree from fleeing pigs after a well placed shot on one of their brothers... They make so much noise their hearing isn't spectacular either... Their nose and intelligence is their primary defense... I have seen them play dead, submerge their entire body in a mud hole motionless with just nostrils of their nose sticking out hoping you pass them by, and even seen them stay within the shadows of clouds on a moonlight nights...