by hogbuster » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:22 pm
I am a new member. I do a lot of hog hunting and have 8 ranches here in central Texas I can hunt on , every day if I want to. Over the past 11 years my son and I have shot an impressive number of hogs. He has the honor of shooting the biggest so far. A lady who raises hogs for a living in this area looked at it and estimated its weight at somewhere between 525 and 550 pounds.I love to reload but am new to the 450 craze. I have just finished loading a group of test rounds for the 450BM using Hornadys 300 grain XTP-MAG. Over the years I have shot hogs with just about every caliber but nothing larger than a 300 win mag for my long range shots.I am retired military having retired in 1976 ( U.S. Army ) at the age of 37, so I have had a lot of time to grow up with my two sons. I will be 73 in February am all crippled up and starting to feel it, but I refuse to go easy. Most of my free time is spent trying to get into a hogs head but in 11 years I have yet to do it. They kind of remind me of turkeys , who dont know what they are going to do next, but its fun trying to figure them out.I have a form i made to fill out when i see a hog, or shoot a hog, its quite helpful as it covers everything from location, time, moon phase everything. It works quite well and I review it every time I go hunting.Right now its hunting water holes or " tanks " as the ranchers call them. The water situation is getting very critical right now. Thanks " Hog Buster "