Tx Dogblaster
01-28-2011, 08:21 PM
My son and I went to Madisonville and headed out to where we would hunt. We waited for the sun to disappear and we headed out. We were away from the trucks for about 30 minutes when we rounded a corner and spotted hogs in a pasture. There were 32 of the boogers in this group. We parked the Ranger and grabbed rifles and started stalking across the field. It was a pretty cool feeling to be walking in a wide open field with no fear of the hogs seeing us. The goggles created our own daylight in an otherwise pitch black night. We moved in and set up our shooting sticks. Raised our goggles and got on the NV scopes. Once we were situated and had targets acquired, we counted down 3-2-1 BOOM... It was ON!!!! Pigs scattered all over the pasture and we commenced to sending hot lead into our panicking prey. When the smoke cleared (or rather when the mags were empty) we had nine pigs down. Not bad for the 1st stalk of the night :) :) :)
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We drove around for a couple of hours after the initial volley without seeing anymore pigs. We saw countless deer, skunks and armadillos but now piggies to be found. We did manage to pop an unsuspecting coyote to help pass some time.
For those that haven't had the opportunity to view the world through quality NV equipment, all I can say is you have NO IDEA what you're missing. When you get away from town and look in the sky on a crystal clear night your eyes see millions of stars and it's a beautiful sight. Enter the NV world. NOW look at the sky. The millions of stars that you saw with your naked eyes just turned to BILLIONS & BILLIONS and goes from beautiful to absolutely AWE inspiring!!! The next pic does no justice to what we actually saw because I was trying to hold my helmet with one hand and hold my cell phone camera centered on one of the tubes of my goggles to get a pic. The Milkyway looked like a cloud of solid stars.
http://i48.tinypic.com/23h3jb7.jpg
As we were winding down the night, we came to another pasture and I spotted a group of pigs so we parked the Ranger once again and began our stalk. There were 3 or 4 BIG pigs in the group with a bunch of little ones. As we were approaching, we noticed that the wind was about to cause us to be busted so we had to adjust our coarse a bit which also gave us more shooting room as it put a herd of cows more to our backs. We got on our sticks and just as we were about ready let 'em have it, one of the big sows got spooky. Apparently she winded us so they were about to make a break for it. We opened fire on them but they didn't have far to go for cover in this pasture but we ended up getting the 2 biggest pigs of the night. I shot a sow that was approx 250 #'s and TJ put a beautiful head shot on his. His pig would have weighed approx 175 #'s or so. Clark drug up with the Ranger so we could take some pics and wrap the night up.
http://i50.tinypic.com/2cdbjna.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/1g2k52.jpg
My little brave pig slayer :rolleyes:
http://i49.tinypic.com/waskua.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/307p74l.jpg
We drove around for a couple of hours after the initial volley without seeing anymore pigs. We saw countless deer, skunks and armadillos but now piggies to be found. We did manage to pop an unsuspecting coyote to help pass some time.
For those that haven't had the opportunity to view the world through quality NV equipment, all I can say is you have NO IDEA what you're missing. When you get away from town and look in the sky on a crystal clear night your eyes see millions of stars and it's a beautiful sight. Enter the NV world. NOW look at the sky. The millions of stars that you saw with your naked eyes just turned to BILLIONS & BILLIONS and goes from beautiful to absolutely AWE inspiring!!! The next pic does no justice to what we actually saw because I was trying to hold my helmet with one hand and hold my cell phone camera centered on one of the tubes of my goggles to get a pic. The Milkyway looked like a cloud of solid stars.
http://i48.tinypic.com/23h3jb7.jpg
As we were winding down the night, we came to another pasture and I spotted a group of pigs so we parked the Ranger once again and began our stalk. There were 3 or 4 BIG pigs in the group with a bunch of little ones. As we were approaching, we noticed that the wind was about to cause us to be busted so we had to adjust our coarse a bit which also gave us more shooting room as it put a herd of cows more to our backs. We got on our sticks and just as we were about ready let 'em have it, one of the big sows got spooky. Apparently she winded us so they were about to make a break for it. We opened fire on them but they didn't have far to go for cover in this pasture but we ended up getting the 2 biggest pigs of the night. I shot a sow that was approx 250 #'s and TJ put a beautiful head shot on his. His pig would have weighed approx 175 #'s or so. Clark drug up with the Ranger so we could take some pics and wrap the night up.
http://i50.tinypic.com/2cdbjna.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/1g2k52.jpg
My little brave pig slayer :rolleyes:
http://i49.tinypic.com/waskua.jpg