How big? I can't tell you and here's why...
Last April we had this nice boar start showing up on the hometown trailcam almost everyday. We only had a green lawn chair set inside a juniper set 20 yards from the feeder...tight hunting! Right on cue this boar steps out and I'm shooting dad's, new at the time, LMT 6.8. He steps out, quarters to me, then sees my slight movement just as I fire on his shoulder with a Wilson Combat 95gr. TTSX. Before I can even swing on him he's back into the brush crashing through the juniper thickets.
No blood, no hair. We search that night and about 2hrs the next morning. Nothing. I'm pretty bummed out because the trigger pull felt perfect. Fast forward to Dec. 26th and I'm scouting for a new stand location. 90 yards from the feeder, and in the direction the boar ran, I find this moderately fresh pile of bones and a massive hog skull. Through one of the shoulder blades is a nice bullet hole.
After 7 months thinking I missed this pig at 20 yards, I finally got him. Who knows what he weighed, respectively in the 200's no doubt, but he's got the best cutters of any pig I've ever shot. Both measure 3 1/8" from the roots, no exaggeration. A fine swine. God is good.
Last April we had this nice boar start showing up on the hometown trailcam almost everyday. We only had a green lawn chair set inside a juniper set 20 yards from the feeder...tight hunting! Right on cue this boar steps out and I'm shooting dad's, new at the time, LMT 6.8. He steps out, quarters to me, then sees my slight movement just as I fire on his shoulder with a Wilson Combat 95gr. TTSX. Before I can even swing on him he's back into the brush crashing through the juniper thickets.
No blood, no hair. We search that night and about 2hrs the next morning. Nothing. I'm pretty bummed out because the trigger pull felt perfect. Fast forward to Dec. 26th and I'm scouting for a new stand location. 90 yards from the feeder, and in the direction the boar ran, I find this moderately fresh pile of bones and a massive hog skull. Through one of the shoulder blades is a nice bullet hole.
After 7 months thinking I missed this pig at 20 yards, I finally got him. Who knows what he weighed, respectively in the 200's no doubt, but he's got the best cutters of any pig I've ever shot. Both measure 3 1/8" from the roots, no exaggeration. A fine swine. God is good.
