We took off for Tx in the afternoon 30 Mar. Nice uneventful flight arriving in Dallas at 830pm. Rented the car and drove an hour east to Canton. We stayed with our good friend Brian. He was gracious enough to allow us to use his home as our headquarters. Sleeping and showering between hunts. He even showed off his cooking prowess with wild game. So lets get onto the meat of the story.
First night hunt. Dehog has a couple of properties but the one we went to is 1600 acres. Mostly bottom land with some creeks and river front access. Same property we hunted before. Met up with him at 7pm on the 31st of Mar. Went over all the safety and stalking procedures and loaded up. He provided all the equipment. Specs as follows;
2 AR15 Pistols in 300BO
Spikes upper and lower
Lightweight Voodoo BCG
CMMG 8" 1 in 7 barrels
Pulsar XD50a and XD50s thermals
Thunderbeast 7" 30 cal and 30 cal Harvester suppressors.
200gn RAX Maker fracturing bullets.
We get set overlooking 2 feeders 500yds off to each side of us. A large 400 acre pasture to the left and 400acres of bottom land with lots of scrub to the right. Get the thermals out and begin scanning. Joe does have a couple monoculars for basic search with the final ID being made with the Pulsars. About an hour into the hunt Joe sees a signature at the right side feeder. It actually appears like there might be 2. We grab the sticks and our pistols and off we go. Single file stalking in closing the distance to 75yds. The wet ground made for easy stalking. Everything was quiet except the 400 head of cows wandering around behind us. David, my son, and I set up on bipods. By the time we got there there was only one good sized boar. We line up with a behind the ear neckshot. 3,2,1 Bang FLOP. Boar lurches up stiff and drops like a ROCK. Here is the video. Unfortunately Dehog does not have the means to transfer video to a computer yet so it is what it is.
https://youtu.be/H2nxg_CjcxM
Curly Shuffle ensues and Joe administers a Coup de gras with his Fn Tac 45 with Octane 45 can. One stalk One Kill
Haul the boar off a hundred fifty yards or so and take the rear hams and backstraps.
Back to the Side by Side get the meat on ice and back to scanning. See a lot of movement. Deer, rabbits, a racoon and yes the cows. It made it a bit difficult to really see but we made do. I was scanning a small lane where Joe had reported seeing hogs run through before. Suddenly out of nowhere a coyote appears. Just behind a small clump of brush about 40yds away. Standing orders are to shoot any Hog, yote, racoon or dillo seen. She was looking right at us. I lined up and took the shot behind the shoulder. In my haste I did not turn on the recorder. She did the Coyote twirl for a few seconds and went down.
Small female. I was amazed there was no exit even from that close of a range. Everyone says how the 300BO will bore right through and not have enough energy to knock anything down. Well with the right bullet it does the job. AND MY FIRST COYOTE!!!!!
More coming.
