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Ya'll make it look soooo easy, nice lookin bucks.

This is a quote from the Feral Hog section of the news article posted by Red Rabbit, I felt it appropriate to add it to this thread. Bergman said these pigs root up wetlands, threaten endangered species, and spread diseases to commercial livestock and possibly even people. "At a minimum, they cause over $800 million damage to the agriculture industry in the United States," Bergman said.

That is some serious whacking going on there congrats to all of you. You don't become Lethal Lexi by playing play station.....well, maybe the Wii but I doubt that.....lots of time goes in to bein that sucessful. Nice Job.

I figured you had a bunch of pics, I was just trying to guess out of the few you posted, even with just those few, it looks to me like alot of different bucks which is promising as far as population goes. Great pics....

Exactly my thoughts......reminded me of when my 12 year old over Christmas break he said , "Dad, what does it mean if somebody says you aint clickin on all cylinders".......I will have to show him the pics to help him understand...........

We used to see them quite often hunting down in the bootheel of New Mexico close to the Mexico border. We went 20 years ago over to Meteor Crater on a wild pig chase but never found any over there. If we don't keep the numbers down we will all of the sudden be providing services for the pesky buggers Thanks for the update....

How many different bucks do you count???? Kind of hard to keep track but maybe 10 or am I makin stuff up?? That is awesome, thanks for sharing.

Kind of a double jeopardy the thrill of having them come in close or reaching out and smacking one at 200 yards. Multiple dogs at once is just a cluster mess for me, I get too wrapped up in trying to kill them all instead of one at a time, not that I don't enjoy the thrill of it, but always seems to end up with no dogs down. Now shooting one and continuing calling that is pretty sweet and I can handle that scenario. IF I were to go back down home to call again, I would definitely take a shotgun along though. Congrats on a great day of whacking those dogs..............

Good advice, but I can honestly say that I have killed very few dogs after missing the first shot, close or long range I have a pretty crappy record after the missed first shot...........

I have thought alot about the shotgun vs. 22-250 scenario lately and have developed a theory. Maybe somebody here can give their expert opinion. Growing up in southern New Mexico, we did alot of calling in open country, chapparal, mesquite pockets of vegetation with alot of hunting over harvested corn fields and milo maize. We used to have some great coyote chases over open stubble, long shots and great chases. As years have gone by two things have happened. Vegetation growth and people growth. When I go back down to home the mesquite and chapparal have gotten so big and grown thick I can't imagine getting a shot off in some of the places I used to call. Farmers and ranchers used to let us know when they were having coyote problems and liked it that we would come get rid of a couple of dogs now and then, but now due to public pressure I believe a good coyote chase in the open fields is frowned upon. I always thought the best varmint gun was a shotgun 223 over under....what do you think

EXactly what I said ...................

Congrats on a hunt of a life time....if you have Doc Peters in your hip pocket you have a great outdoorsman. Congratulations..........

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Why are those dang wives always right!!!! Speedy recovery TJ..........

One of the things I think is cool about these photos is the backdrop of pinion pine and prickly pear cactus............that is just too cool.....congrats you guys.

Anybody got a special load they like for this cartridge. We now have one of them in the family would like to build a good all around load. What grain bullet is the best for this gun? Elk? Deer? Is there a middle of the road weight that works well for both? Powder recommendations? Help me out here if you don't mind.

Careful that sounds a little like guantanamo and you know we can't be treating criminals like that. Is it 8 Seconds where they tie the guy up to the fence and pull his pants down with a young calf on the loose???

Brent, Man you gotta quit showing pics of that country, just makes me daydream that much more. Last year with our hunt, I left hiline at dark thirty on my mule, pulling a mule behind me and bless their hearts, they kept me from getting to lost all the way back to honeymoon. Just a sore rearend and dang proud of the mules. Sorry you didn't get to whack a bull, but looks like to got the most out of your hunt. We gotta meet up down there some time.

So lets hear some Christmas recommendations on trail cams. Is there really such a thing as a trail cam that will send photos to my computer?? I am trail cam illiterate......

The only wolf I have seen was there at Beaverhead Loged on 666 and it had a collar, otherwise it might have ended up on the endangered list. It was alot more lanky and raggedy looking, that looks like a well kept dog to me.

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That is awesome......congrats.....

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My bad, can't get the story to download, which has everything to do with the Law of the Computer or lack thereof. Will try to get it loaded.

Come on JD, you guys been hunting out by PFFJ??? That is a big Duroc boar pig Congrats on the bear and coyote combo..............