You know it is going to be a good hunt when your first kill comes before you even take out the rifles!
Dave Krebs took me hunting in Montague County to several properties where he does hog and predator control. It was a beautiful evening, temps in the low 80s with a nice breeze. I don't have a lot of the usual data this time as this was just a fun hunt. However, for those who are interested, I am shooting my normal 6.5 Grendel with Hornady SST 123 gr. ammo and Armasight Zeus thermal sight. Dave was initially shooting a 7.62x39 AR15 with a new Sig Sauer Echo 1 thermal reflex sight and later changed to a 6.5 Grendel with an IR Hunter MKII 2.5x thermal sight.
I now refer to Dave Krebs as Dave "Cardio" Krebs. We made some very long stalks and Cardio's mindset is something like this..."The hogs are over there and we are over here and so the more time we are over here the less time we can be shooting hogs over there." So any time that we could move in high gear, we moved in high gear and we moved in high gear a LOT. No time got wasted debating strategies or goals. It was simple. We go over there and we shoot them and we don't shoot the livestock. This made for very pleasant, if not breathless, hunting.
The video is a little longer than normal, but that is because there are multiple shooting sequences and the last one was rather complex. I tried to edit it down far enough without losing the situational context.
No necropsy this time!
Dave Krebs took me hunting in Montague County to several properties where he does hog and predator control. It was a beautiful evening, temps in the low 80s with a nice breeze. I don't have a lot of the usual data this time as this was just a fun hunt. However, for those who are interested, I am shooting my normal 6.5 Grendel with Hornady SST 123 gr. ammo and Armasight Zeus thermal sight. Dave was initially shooting a 7.62x39 AR15 with a new Sig Sauer Echo 1 thermal reflex sight and later changed to a 6.5 Grendel with an IR Hunter MKII 2.5x thermal sight.
I now refer to Dave Krebs as Dave "Cardio" Krebs. We made some very long stalks and Cardio's mindset is something like this..."The hogs are over there and we are over here and so the more time we are over here the less time we can be shooting hogs over there." So any time that we could move in high gear, we moved in high gear and we moved in high gear a LOT. No time got wasted debating strategies or goals. It was simple. We go over there and we shoot them and we don't shoot the livestock. This made for very pleasant, if not breathless, hunting.
The video is a little longer than normal, but that is because there are multiple shooting sequences and the last one was rather complex. I tried to edit it down far enough without losing the situational context.
No necropsy this time!
