Howie1968
40 Cal.
ive been spending alot of time deer hunting , i have a couple really nice bucks im looking at in the upper 160s on our place. the one big 12 has been coming through my pig spot every couple days eating corn and such chasing does. i have this one big boar hanging around i do have a feeder up for the hogs which helps me eliminate them, this hog has been staying at the feeder eating every kernel of corn at 8am 330 and 530 pm. i got off work at 7am and threw my TC treehawk in the car along with a couple bullets 370 gr maxiball wonderwads caps and 2 tubes of premeasured 80 grains pyrodex rs. my thought was get into my blind before 8am as he was showing up at 801 according to game cam. just as i was about to make the right to my groundblind i heard a noise to my left i hurried cocked the treehawk hit record on the go pro that was on my head. the boar stood up with his neck and head protruding in front of a pine tree i had literally 2 seconds to make a decision he took a step and i fired i thought i heard him drop. after the smoke cleared i sat down for a bit as ive been battling a respiritory infection the last week. when i went to where he was at i seen a sapling that was split in two but no sign of the bullet. i finally found a speck of blood i ended up hearing the boar growl so i went towards the direction he jumped up out of a pine thicket and ran he stopped for a second and could see his upper chest was bloody. i had 1 bullet remaining so i decided to go back home get me a bigger caliber and ill go sit the feeder again. i believe he is single lunged. these boars can survive a single lung shot seen it hundreds of times. from my video i was able to get a still picture of him just before the shot and after the bed and the sapling. i rarely have these types of hunts but sometimes it happens