Nothing close enough to shoot, but still got some decent video.
Of course we didn't know the long distances at the time we were in the field. I worked out those later on Google Earth using various landmarks. I did wonder if I could have made a shot on the moving hogs. After running calculations, getting flight time, drop, etc., I figured out that to hit the biggest hog, the W&E would have required just over one complete hog-length lead and 4 feet of elevation for a flight time of 0.6 seconds.
Based on estimating the far distance of the water being about 200 yards, the Hessian guessed that the hogs were at 350+ yards, which wasn't a horrible guess, but we would have under shot significantly had we used dope for 350. I thought they were closer. Between the magnification and the clarity, they certainly seemed like they should have been closer, but they weren't.
I can remember my dope for this rifle out to 250 yards in 25 yard increments. I think next time we head up to the lake dam to hunt, I will bring a range card made from Google Earth and dope for 600 yards...
Maybe next time the hogs won't be so lucky...
