8 pt & A Hog

This guy got to walk - Initially I thought, he's not fully mature. I would like to see him in 2 years. The biologist has weighed in and says this buck is 5 1/2 and should be shot as a management deer. What do you think?

Hog Kill yesterday evening. 100 lb boar at 101 yards with my FA 454.

Great job Gary. Are you filming your own hunts?

Yes

Nice shot and video. That .454 is impressive.

That's nice, Gary! That filming yourself can be tuff. That camera films awesome!

One of the hardest parts is getting all the stuff to the stand. We really don't have trees big enough to get into so that means filming from the ground and avoid being seen

Love the video, great shot. One of these days I have to get me a hog.

Nice video. What camera are you using. Good shooting bud!

Very nicely done, Gary!

i didnt know freedom arms made cameras. Nice.

Great video and good clean one shot kill. Way to go,Gary.

I got a kick out of seeing the Springbok pronking. Thank for posting, Gary.

Great job!

I'm using a Canon XA-20. The big thing is a 20x optical zoom. Anything less and it just doesn't get you close enough. I'll post some pics soon of the setup I'm using. The camera itself is about 2K.

Nice video and yes the pronking at the end got a chuckle out of me!

Nice video footage. Love those DRT shots!

Great job. I agree that deer is a 5 1/2 year old. reflex264

The head on the buck looks to small for the body, dump him.

great shot on the pig...... should have shot the deer.

Yep, I got a kick out of the immature Blackbucks too!

Nice work Gary! Good shooting and great footage!

I was surprised to see the hog and blackbuck sharing space as well as they did - I'm used to the whitetails clearing out when the swine appear...

Here are a couple more videos of me calling in a jackal and a grey fox squeaking using the back of my hand.

Jackal

Texas grey fox

Very nice!

The whitetails did clear out. They are great watchdogs for pigs. When the deer are at a feeder and suddenly blow out - it's pigs.

Shoot that deer. He's old, the tell tale signs are there for sure.

Ok - I think most are saying shoot him. What about this buck in the back?


He has the signs too of an older deer. Sway backed, neck is wider than his face so he's rutted up a bit.

Good shooting and good video.

Gary,

I was going to guess at least 4.5 on the first deer, based on the chest/waist ratio, back line, etc and the karate-chop brisket.

On deer #2, do you have any photos showing the chest and full stomach?

I can't tell much on second one. Girth of belly and back is a good indicator though if you've got a good look of him. His back is definitely down and neck etc but with the short tines and look of the rack, I'd pop him.

Great shot!

Here is the 2nd deer a year later. Is he a shooter now? Keep in mind mature 8 pts are considered management deer on highly managed properties.

I'm not picky. He is nice either way. Shoot him.

Cool rack :). I love the tall brow tines

Here is the same deer after another year. 11 pts - split G2. He escaped the hammer that year and was killed the next year having had the same basic rack as shown here.

I'd shoot any of them, especially that last one.

That's cool Gary. Funny how his posture changes the look of his back line etc. He looks younger in second pic than in the first one body wise. Hard to judge from pics sometimes if you can't be there watching them isn't it

Great job, Gary.