 Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 3:11 AM
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I went hunting with the 44 this afternoon I have several trail cam pics of 2 different groups of hogs coming in and I had several pics of a pretty good boar coming in so I decided to go this afternoon and sure enough I watched a coon at the feeder for 10 minutes and he looked up and ran off and I looked down a little opening and seen him coming in and I got the ear plugs in and waited for him to come out of the edge of the woods for a shot after about 5 minutes I seen him poke his head out nervously ( this particular place I hunt the hogs are very educated as I have killed a whole lot of them out there over the past few years) so as soon as he took 1 more step I put it on his shoulder and squeezed the trigger and he went down hard I ended up shooting him 1 more time because even though they are hogs I still want them to die quick and be ethical about it. I shot him at 40 yds with my 7 1/2" redhawk using my handloads with a 240 gr xtp using h110 and got clean pass through on both shots. Here is a couple pics thanks for looking 
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 3:15 AM
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 3:19 AM
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Congratulations! And thanks for sharing.
Rod, too.
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 3:50 AM
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Nice pig and beautiful revolver you have there.
"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 5:21 AM
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Ernie
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Good for you!
Good sized pig to boot.
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 8:19 AM
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 10:49 AM
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 11:59 AM
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Nicely done! Congratulations!
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 12:20 PM
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Congrats! That's a nice swine.
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger squeeze.
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 1:43 PM
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 2:07 PM
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 2:09 PM
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eastex
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Thanks glad yall like it. I almost grabbed my camera but couldn't find the mount so I left it I sure wish I would have recorded it that would have been cool
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/21/2015 11:07 PM
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Yea, good job! Open sights and nice gun. Pretty good job for 240 xtp's too. I read alot of, "you gotta go to 300 grain....". At reasonable ranges looks like 240 will do it.
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/22/2015 1:34 AM
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Nice hog and hogleg!
Congratulations!
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/22/2015 3:30 AM
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Thanks yea with the 240 gr xtp it looked like smoke coming out the other side I forgot to mention the bullet passed through
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/22/2015 12:27 PM
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When is the barbecue? ;-)
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/22/2015 12:51 PM
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Thanks yea with the 240 gr xtp it looked like smoke coming out the other side I forgot to mention the bullet passed through You had said both were pass throughs. Pretty impressive. I've only shot deer with 'em (240 xtp). But deer are easy.
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05/22/2015 1:10 PM
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Congrats on the nice hog and the grand shooting.
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05/22/2015 3:26 PM
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Thanks yea with the 240 gr xtp it looked like smoke coming out the other side I forgot to mention the bullet passed through You had said both were pass throughs. Pretty impressive. I've only shot deer with 'em (240 xtp). But deer are easy. Yes both were pass through
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/22/2015 4:51 PM
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doc with a glock
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tex,
I you ever fell overwhelmed by the hogs and want to trade a MT handgun gopher hunt for a Texas hog hunt, let me know. Thanks for story and pics.
Doc
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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05/22/2015 6:41 PM
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tex,
I you ever fell overwhelmed by the hogs and want to trade a MT handgun gopher hunt for a Texas hog hunt, let me know. Thanks for story and pics.
Doc sounds good I have plenty of hogs!
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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06/19/2015 11:03 PM
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Very nice. I really need to go hog hunting sometime!! Great pictures and congratulations....
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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06/20/2015 11:56 AM
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Thats the way to do it ! Way to go.
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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06/20/2015 3:27 PM
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Buckingham
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Nice hog! What do you do with the meat? Besides eating it sausage, barbecue, braised, ?.
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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06/20/2015 11:21 PM
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I I shoot quite a few hogs so I usually give them to people that want or need them, I have about 80 lbs of breakfast sausage in the freezer right now but I do like to butterfly the back straps and grill them
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06/21/2015 1:27 AM
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Re: Hog vs 44 DRT
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07/15/2015 11:45 AM
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Huge congrats on the hog. Good shooting as well!
"A quiet hit in the right place is better than a loud miss in the wrong place followed by 10 more shots on the run"
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07/23/2015 10:15 PM
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