PatrickJr Report post Posted January 25, 2015 Last November I had a deer and pig tag, I filled my deer tag and that evening i tried for my 2nd double. I missed a pig at between 80-100 yards and my dad told me it was because the trajectory didn't match the reticle at 100 and so it probably went over. I didn't think it would be THAT high, but i guess it was, either way that pig should be dead. Fast forward to Jan. 22nd, I was hunting coues deer with my dad in Mexico and he had not tagged so i was holding back on the pigs but it was the last day. I found some pigs mid-morning, and a buddy let me shoot his 7 RUM. I missed that pig too! My spotters said i was an inch or 2 below his chest. Not bad for 610 yards.... I still don't know how i missed that pig, because i was right on the collar 2/3rds up the body. But i didn't get a little something in return...my first kiss from a Nightforce. So now I have missed 2 pigs and we can back to the states on the 23rd, the day my JR pig hunt starts. My buddy got his daughter a pig that evening so he could hunt with me on Saturday. We got to our parking spot at about 7AM and BS'd for 20 minutes, then began out hike. I was once again carrying my 257 Weatherby that I missed the first pig with, but now i had custom Wundrock reloads and a different scope on it, that did not have the ballistic plex and I was good out to 300. Let's back up to the drive in. I asked my dad how I should hold on a pig at the yardages 200, 150, 100, and 50 if it was dead on at 300. He told me and somewhat laughed at me when I asked how I should hold at 50. He was probably thinking I would never get to 50 of a pig. I memorized how I had to hold. John and i started walking and right away we both were seeing lots of fresh tracks. About 10 minutes into hiking, we are in a little cut, and we hear so brush rustle along with a woof. Pigs. The brush was so thick that we couldn't see one and they had our wind. Then we heard a woof to our right, a much more open side of the cut. I took off my glove, chambered a round, then got ready. Multiple pigs were woofing back to us, but I could not see any yet. I began to tiptoe up with my scope on 3x. All of a sudden a pig popped up and I put the rifle up and asked John if I should shoot, because he looked kind of small. There was a small bush covering everything but his head and this back, so I placed the crosshairs where I figured his vitals were, then dropped them a couple inches and pulled the trigger. One pig ran to the right and another to the left. I quickly asked John if I hit it, he said yes. I unchambered the next round, went back and grabbed my glove and brass. I told John to go stand by the pig so I could range him. 15 YARDS! I was speechless. 15 minutes into the hunt and I kill a pig at 15 yards. I called my dad who was still sitting in the truck dealing with some work business. He didn't hear the shot and was astonished I had already killed. We took him up the sun and took photos then tagged the big boar. I glanced across the cut, and there was the rest of the herd, now 6 pigs, feeding. They could care less. We stalked in on them for fun and got to 35 yards. My father had loaded up some 110 gr Nosler Accubonds over 68.5 grains of RL22. This bullet was devastating, heart, lungs, and shoulder gone, it also went through to cut down a prickly pear. Myself John and I I never knew how much meat there was on a pigs head, it took me 3 hours to really get it clean. We aged him at 7 years old and he rough green scores over 14, so hopefully he will end up over 14 and I will accompany my mother and father in the javelina record book! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted January 25, 2015 That's pretty much the exact load I shoot in my 257. Little bit of advice on my end though... That bullet is going 3400+ fps, there's really no need to zero at 300. If you zero at 150 or 200, you can still hood in issue out to about 330 in pigs and about 400 on deer and make vital area kills. Nice piggy, them and the 257 are great matches 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Seldom Drawn Report post Posted January 26, 2015 Last November I had a deer and pig tag, I filled my deer tag and that evening i tried for my 2nd double. I missed a pig at between 80-100 yards and my dad told me it was because the trajectory didn't match the reticle at 100 and so it probably went over. I didn't think it would be THAT high, but i guess it was, either way that pig should be dead. Fast forward to Jan. 22nd, I was hunting coues deer with my dad in Mexico and he had not tagged so i was holding back on the pigs but it was the last day. I found some pigs mid-morning, and a buddy let me shoot his 7 RUM. I missed that pig too! My spotters said i was an inch or 2 below his chest. Not bad for 610 yards.... I still don't know how i missed that pig, because i was right on the collar 2/3rds up the body. But i didn't get a little something in return...my first kiss from a Nightforce. DSCF5156.JPG So now I have missed 2 pigs and we can back to the states on the 23rd, the day my JR pig hunt starts. My buddy got his daughter a pig that evening so he could hunt with me on Saturday. We got to our parking spot at about 7AM and BS'd for 20 minutes, then began out hike. I was once again carrying my 257 Weatherby that I missed the first pig with, but now i had custom Wundrock reloads and a different scope on it, that did not have the ballistic plex and I was good out to 300. Let's back up to the drive in. I asked my dad how I should hold on a pig at the yardages 200, 150, 100, and 5o if it was dead on at 300. He told me and somewhat laughed at me when I asked how I should hold at 50. He was probably thinking I would never get to 50 of a pig. I memorized how I had to hold. John and i started walking and right away we both were seeing lots of fresh tracks. About 10 minutes into hiking, we are in a little cut, and we hear so brush rustle and a woof. Pigs. The brush was so thick that we couldn't see one and they had our wind. Then we heard a woof to our right, a much more open side of the cut. I took off my glove, chambered a round, then got ready. Multiple pigs were woofing back to us, but I could not see any yet. I began to tiptoe up with my scope on 3x. All of a sudden a pig popped up and I put the rifle up and asked John if should shoot, because he looking kind of small. There was a small bush covering everything but his head and this back, so I placed the crosshairs where I figured his vitals were, then dropped them a couple inches and pulled the trigger. One pig ran to the right and another to the left. I quickly asked John if I hit it, he said yes and I walked up to see the pig kick a last few times. I unchambered the round, bent back and grabbed my glove and brass. I told John to go stand by the pig so i could range him. 15 YARDS! I was speechless. 15 minutes into the hunt and I kill a pig at 15 yards. I called my dad who was still sitting in the truck dealing with some work business. He didn't hear the shot and was astonished I had already killed. We took him up the sun and took photos then tagged the big boar. I glanced across the cut, and there was the rest of the herd, now 6 pigs, feeding. They couldn't care less. we stalked in on them for fun and got to 35 yards. My father loaded up some 110 gr Nosler Accubonds over 68.5 grains of RL22. This bullet was devastating, heart, lungs, and shoulder gone, it also went through to cut down a prickly pear. One pig in the herd DSCF5194.JPG Myself Fullscreen capture 1242015 81446 PM.bmp.jpg Myself with the rifle DSCF5188.JPG John and I DSCF5192.JPG I never knew how much meat there was on a pigs head, it took me 3 hours to really get it clean. We aged him at 7 years old and he rough green scores over 14, so hopefully he will end up over 14 and I will accompany my mother and father in the javelina record book! Nice job, 606 yards on a pig were you afraid he might wind you? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PatrickJr Report post Posted January 27, 2015 No, the pig was not going to wind us. My buddy, Mark, wanted me to shoot a long distance pig, because I was the only guy in camp (besides cooks) that was not going to shoot a deer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couestracker Report post Posted January 28, 2015 Congratulations Patrick on your nice javelina! Sounds like you had a great time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
