1st hog with my T/C Encore Endeavor

[SWThomas]

Big thanks to Jim (gobbler getter) for letting me shoot this hog. He put me in a stand about 60 yards from a feeder. This is the same site where he took his hog with his Savage a few weeks ago. He had trail cam pics of these hogs coming consistantly at the same time. No more than 5 minutes after my butt hit the seat, two hogs came out. They were skirting the feeder in the high grass checking everything out before making their way into the open. The larger red one lead the smaller black one on their approach to the feeder. As soon as she gave me a shot I took it. She turned at the last spit second and the bullet entered the left side of her neck and exited her right side rib cage leaving a fist size hole.

Entrance...

Exit...

I was very impressed with how the Endeavor performed. It was pouring rain and the entire rifle was soaked. I was shooting a Barnes 290g T-EZ with 120g BH209 and a CCI 209M primer. I reloaded after the shot and fired off that load before I left the property. Both times the Endeavor fired the load off flawlessly. The heavy moisture had no affect at all.

Again, a bog thanks goes to Jim! Not only did he let me shoot this hog, but he pretty much cleaned the whole hog for me also. What a guy!!!

 

[wayles]

pig

good hog, good shootin, be some good eatin there
Wayles

 

[younghunter_86]

SWThomas-

Good shootin'. Sometimes things just work perfectly. From the sounds of it your hunt was one of those times.

 

[Doohan]

GREAT!

Love it..... Love your setup too! rayer:

 

[SWThomas]

Thanks fellas!!!

 

[black powder]

well now u know that you have a good shooter ...congrad. on the hog ..something i have not shot yet ..guy's are lucky u can still go hunting.

 

[Sam208]

is there a season on hogs?

I wish i could get a chance to go on a hog hunt sometime


sam208

 

[SWThomas]

is there a season on hogs?

I wish i could get a chance to go on a hog hunt sometime


sam208

Not unless you're hunting public land. Then there would be a season. But on private land you can hunt them year round.

 

[wayles]

About 55 years ago I went on my only hog hunt it lasted all summer. We lived about 30 miles from the nearest town in Eastern Okla on a ranch. An old coon huntin ,whiskey makin ridge runner bachlor Used to turn his hogs loose to open range which was ileagle but he did it any way. His hogs were tearing up the river bottom and Dad asked him to get his hogs off our land. He gave him plenty of time to get his hogs up. Besides that the man would put up wiskey stills in the cane brake on our place because the creek ran thru our property and my Father was a law abidin man. The man did not comply so Dad gave me the green light to whack as many as I could. My weapon was a Bo-darc home made bow and river cane arrow shafts tiped with hammered out, shaped and sharpened 10 penny nails. The Bow probably pulled 20 to25 # as I was about 10 or 11 years old. My shafts were 2 fletched with feathers from whatever rooster's tail I could catch. I simply split the cane between two joints and slipped the feather in. One of my jobs in the summers was to check on the cattle every day and count noses. Dad had about 200 head and rustlin was not unknown in that part of the country. That bow went every where with me and as a kid I always watchin for targets of oppurtunity. [Squirrels and rabbits feared me.] My first victim was about a 40 pounder. I wore those hogs out that summer. They left after a while and never did return.
Wayles

 

[SWThomas]

About 55 years ago I went on my only hog hunt it lasted all summer. We lived about 30 miles from the nearest town in Eastern Okla on a ranch. An old coon huntin ,whiskey makin ridge runner bachlor Used to turn his hogs loose to open range which was ileagle but he did it any way. His hogs were tearing up the river bottom and Dad asked him to get his hogs off our land. He gave him plenty of time to get his hogs up. Besides that the man would put up wiskey stills in the cane brake on our place because the creek ran thru our property and my Father was a law abidin man. The man did not comply so Dad gave me the green light to whack as many as I could. My weapon was a Bo-darc home made bow and river cane arrow shafts tiped with hammered out, shaped and sharpened 10 penny nails. The Bow probably pulled 20 to25 # as I was about 10 or 11 years old. My shafts were 2 fletched with feathers from whatever rooster's tail I could catch. I simply split the cane between two joints and slipped the feather in. One of my jobs in the summers was to check on the cattle every day and count noses. Dad had about 200 head and rustlin was not unknown in that part of the country. That bow went every where with me and as a kid I always watchin for targets of oppurtunity. [Squirrels and rabbits feared me.] My first victim was about a 40 pounder. I wore those hogs out that summer. They left after a while and never did return.
Wayles

Cool story! I love reading about stuff like that! I'm reading a book right now called "A Land Remembered" and it sounds a lot like what you described.

 

[UtahRob]

That did not take you long to get first blood with your new gun . Nothing to shoot around here right now but jack rabbits and coyotes . But i don't hunt either with a muzzy .

Good job !!!

 

[SWThomas]

That did not take you long to get first blood with your new gun . Nothing to shoot around here right now but jack rabbits and coyotes . But i don't hunt either with a muzzy .

Good job !!!

Thanks! Yeah, I'm always on the hunt. If it's not deer, it's hog.

 

[UtahRob]

That did not take you long to get first blood with your new gun . Nothing to shoot around here right now but jack rabbits and coyotes . But i don't hunt either with a muzzy .

Good job !!!

Thanks! Yeah, I'm always on the hunt. If it's not deer, it's hog.

I would love to have wild hogs around here , so i had something to hunt in the off season .

 

[buckyboy1860]

Nice shooting.. Congrats on the Hog. I like the exit hole.