In making hunting videos, I like to find aspects of my hunts that are unique or stand out in some way, such as medical anomalies with the hogs, strange bullet performance, etc. This hunt turned out particularly good for this.
Something seen in a few of my videos and the videos of others is some hesitation on the part of the shooters when faced with a sounder that has taken flight after the first shot. This delay on the part of the hunter is called "predator confusion" or the "confusion effect." If you google these phrases, you can come up with a lot of long-eared articles on the phenomenon. Basically, as long as the predator fails to select a target, then the predator doesn't attack or attack as effectively, thereby increasing the chances for survival of individual members of the group/heard/flock/school. It is basically nothing but sensory overload.
I found it amusing to do the freeze-frame and see the hog jumping over the downed sow and jumping over the shot on the piglet. Pure luck, but it may have kept that hog from harm.
The Berger VLD-Hunting bullets continued to perform well, but with lengthwise shots on both hogs, neither overpenetrated.
I got out as the storms hit. They got over 2 more inches up there. It has been a really wet spring in north Texas!
