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Originally Posted by tnbowhunter
Nice deer, looks like he made a perfect shot. That's a big hog if ya ask me.
I'm kinda partial to those long necks myself.  |
Yeap. He shot the deer at 140 yards (using a 30-06)- dropped him in his tracks. I had forgotten how excited a young man gets on his first deer. He later shot a big doe and insisted we fry up some of the backstrap in celebration. Nice kid even if I do say so myself.
The hog is estimated to be in the 300 lb range. These pictures were taken on my ranch in central Texas (San Saba County) over the Christmas/New Years holidays. We are trying to improve the quality of bucks, so for the time being, we are harvesting all hogs, very mature bucks, spikes and does only-- in the two years we've owned this ranch, we are already seeing much better bucks. This hog was the 12th killed this season (4 boars, 6 sows and 2 shoats). All but the boars were butchered for either adding to venison sausage or for grilling.