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Out hunting again last night and it was fairly productive. It was in the low 80's and extremely dark with no moon. Around 23:00 I spotted the first sounder with the W-1000 at 500-550 yards. Closed the distance to within 50-60 yards and found 2 sows with a mess of piglets. First shot was the alpha sow and down she went. It took me a second to find the other sow and hit her as she went in the woods. Piglets were scattering everywhere and was able to get 2 before they were gone. A friend of mine that lives 10 mins from this field is having a BBQ this weekend and it wasn't to late so I called him. He came out and took the hams and backstrap off the sow and the 2 piglets whole.
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Around 03:00 I spotted another small sounder at around 600-650 yards. Made the walk and got set up. The field now has 4' square bales in it and they were close to the woods so I was only able to get 1 piglet after I dropped this small 140-150 lb boar.
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I think I liked the pics of your blonde friend better!!

Looks like the 24 in front of the ACOG is working well. Given the darkness of the moon last night, I think it was about 3%, did you need to use the IR Illum ?

Nice night and should be a great BBQ.
 
I like her pics better too!!!

It was dark and yes I had to use an illuminator. The second group I shot with the laser because there were a lot of bales in that section and that caused the illuminator to wash out the PVS-24.
 
I have had the same problem, that is why I asked-to see if there is a solution !!
 
An illuminator with multiple power settings will help because you can give it only the light you need. You run the Dbal like I do, it only has low and high and in close like a lot of us hunt the low setting is still to much. I will take a luna tonight because I can dial in just what I need. You can also turn down the gain on the PVS-24 if the dbal is to bright.
 
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Nice hunt, congrats.
 
very nice

like the rig
 
3 more last night but left the camera at home got these 2 with the iPhone.
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What caliber is the iPhone !?

Good lookin' piggies there.
 
I was going to ask the same question RD.

Good shooting Eric.
 
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