second SMR hog

[Buff1958]

The pigs had been hitting the bait around 4:30 for the last 3 days in a role so I climbed up in my lock on at 3:30 this afternoon. The wind decided to blow every direction and as the afternoon turned to evening I was not surprised that the pigs had not shown up. When I put together my new Kibler SMR last month, I put a peep sight on it. The advantage for me is it really helps seeing the front sight with my old eyes. The down side is you loose 15 or 20 minutes as it starts getting dark compared to regular sights. It was just about time to give up when I saw a tank of a boar headed down the hill towards me. He never checked up and trotted right into the bait. I settled the bead on his front shoulder and pulled the rear trigger. Click, click , click……. I had set the trigger so light that it would not catch to set the front trigger. The boar spun around and hit the thicket. I could hear him shuffling around in the water as I used my pocket knife to turn the little screw to adjust the set trigger.
When I looked up from fixing my rifle the hog was standing broad side about 50 yards away. By this point the light had faded to the point I was having a hard time making him out through the peep. I stared over the sight and noticed he had a rubbed spot right under his ear. I raised the rifle again and even though I couldn’t really make out the black hog, I could see the white spot. The second the bead settled the gun went off and the cloud of FF black powder blocked my vision. All I could hear was splashing and as the smoke cleared I could see the boar on his side running in place splashing in the swamp.

So far the new .45 is batting 1000. I have taken it to the woods twice and killed a nice hog both times

 

[snakebit]

Nice! Pork belly burnt ends on the menu!

 

[TDM]

Congrats on another Nice hog! How many grains of powder you using?

 

[Gtrubicon]

Awesome, absolute proof the 45 kills game.

 

[Eterry]

The pigs had been hitting the bait around 4:30 for the last 3 days in a role so I climbed up in my lock on at 3:30 this afternoon. The wind decided to blow every direction and as the afternoon turned to evening I was not surprised that the pigs had not shown up. When I put together my new Kibler SMR last month, I put a peep sight on it. The advantage for me is it really helps seeing the front sight with my old eyes. The down side is you loose 15 or 20 minutes as it starts getting dark compared to regular sights. It was just about time to give up when I saw a tank of a boar headed down the hill towards me. He never checked up and trotted right into the bait. I settled the bead on his front shoulder and pulled the rear trigger. Click, click , click……. I had set the trigger so light that it would not catch to set the front trigger. The boar spun around and hit the thicket. I could hear him shuffling around in the water as I used my pocket knife to turn the little screw to adjust the set trigger.
When I looked up from fixing my rifle the hog was standing broad side about 50 yards away. By this point the light had faded to the point I was having a hard time making him out through the peep. I stared over the sight and noticed he had a rubbed spot right under his ear. I raised the rifle again and even though I couldn’t really make out the black hog, I could see the white spot. The second the bead settled the gun went off and the cloud of FF black powder blocked my vision. All I could hear was splashing and as the smoke cleared I could see the boar on his side running in place splashing in the swamp.

So far the new .45 is batting 1000. I have taken it to the woods twice and killed a nice hog both times

Outstanding. Nice porker! Almost every hog I've busted was head shot. They never get over it.
Also, looks like East Texas piney-woods to me!

 

[Loja man]

Nice hog!!

 

[Buff1958]

70 grains of 3 f goex

Titus county TX

 

[Mulebrain]

Smoker time!

 

[Spikebuck]

Congrats on the hog. Looks like a dandy!

I use a .125 aperture and it allows me our legal 1/2 hr before sunrise to 1/2 hr after sunset. On cloudy days where it gets light a little later or dark a little earlier, a .150 works a little better.

I don't use a set trigger when hunting. One less click for game to hear. The double set triggers on Kibler rifles have a nice pull on the firing trigger without the set anyway.

 

[wganz]

70 grains of 3 f goex

Titus county TX

Nice hunt.
Not that far from the farm over in Caddo Parish. Glad y'all got the pigs right now, haven't been over in my area due to hunting pressure apparently.
Got an estimated weight?

 

[Britsmoothy]

Congratulations.

I struggle to understand set triggers on a muzzloader that is going to be used under 100yards on large game mostly shot from a rest but that's just me....
Happy eating.