 Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/06/2013 6:31 PM
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Spent last weekend in North Carolina with my buddy cottonstalk, and we checked some friend's property (in Johnston County) out just before dusk on Saturday night, in the off chance we would run into any lingering hogs. Wasn't down there to hunt, but when the hog population is as high as it is where we were, no sense not checking. When opportunity knocks, might as well be somewhat prepared. Didn't even have a camera with me, only my cell phone (hence the lousy photo) and my .45 Colt Bisley (this one is always with me -- you never know). Well, we got lucky and saw a pack in one of the fields. We put a stalk on and got within 30 yards. I picked the biggest one in the group, a sow, and let 335 grains of fun fly. Result: one dead hog. There are parts of her in cottonstalk's and my freezer! 
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/06/2013 6:36 PM
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Whit you may not be royalty but definately knightly, and outside the castle walls at that. Til next time
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: cottonstalk]
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06/06/2013 7:07 PM
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: wapitirod]
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06/06/2013 7:31 PM
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Congrats on the boar Whit!
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/06/2013 7:41 PM
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Congrats on the boar Whit! Thank you much!
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/06/2013 7:53 PM
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All hail Sir Whitworth, lol 
Great pig, looks like you and Cotton did well
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/06/2013 9:20 PM
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/06/2013 10:53 PM
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Mark Hampton
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Nice hog--great job! Congrats
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Mark Hampton]
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06/06/2013 11:25 PM
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Big congrats on a nice porker!
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/06/2013 11:26 PM
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/06/2013 11:57 PM
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It pays to be prepared. Good show.
Rod, too.
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/07/2013 12:18 AM
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whit and CS my two next best friends, one daughter now lives in Herndon and one lives in Raleigh, next time mother sponsors a road trip, expect a call, and we'll do lunch!
great hog, good job!
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/07/2013 1:14 AM
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whit and CS my two next best friends, one daughter now lives in Herndon and one lives in Raleigh, next time mother sponsors a road trip, expect a call, and we'll do lunch!
great hog, good job! I'll look forward to it! Thanks, guys!
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/07/2013 1:26 AM
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/07/2013 1:29 AM
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Congrats! Nothing like great results on an unplanned hunt.
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: KRal]
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06/07/2013 2:40 AM
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Nice work Whit!
It pays to be prepared when the target of opportunity is presented!
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/07/2013 3:12 AM
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This looks like a great thread to have the 'is that enough' discussion, so... is a 45 Colt really enough gun for a hog? Seems like a 500 Alaskan is a sensible 'Minimum'!  Nice looking hawg!
Never saw one quite like that in my neck of the woods, is that a Razorback?
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/07/2013 3:21 AM
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This looks like a great thread to have the 'is that enough' discussion, so... is a 45 Colt really enough gun for a hog? Seems like a 500 Alaskan is a sensible 'Minimum'! Nice looking hawg!
Never saw one quite like that in my neck of the woods, is that a Razorback? Thanks guys! The problem with the .50 Alaskan is that if you are tree stand hunting, it'll knock you out of the tree!
Love the .45 Colt!
I would say she was a razorback!
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/07/2013 3:26 AM
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Nice job guys. Wish we had them things out here.
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
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06/07/2013 5:05 AM
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Nice job guys. Wish we had them things out here. no you don't, there would be a lot of cattleman and potato farmers really pissed off.
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/07/2013 8:15 PM
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I love to see pigs get shot! Good one Whit. Long live the 45
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06/07/2013 8:33 PM
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/07/2013 9:46 PM
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The good book says to "be ye ready". 
Good shooting Whitworth, congrats!
Last edited by Darrell H; 06/07/2013 9:46 PM.
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Re: Impromptu NC Hog Hunt
[Re: Whitworth]
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06/08/2013 7:27 PM
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Whit, nice hog. You slow roasting those ribs?
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