Hagerman Hog Hunt 2019

[Shake N' Bake]

The two of us (myself and Paul- brand new hunter). I'll probably start off Friday am with my bow, Paul will be carrying a 12 gauge with 00 buckshot. Once the hogs get onto our devious plan, I'll either switch to a 12 gauge/rifled barrel and sabot copper slugs, or 50cal with solid copper sabots.

The buckshot that Paul will use is from ICC ammo, solid copper shot. Just ordered 5 boxes of 5. You can call ICC and get a discount code, speak to a guy named Ryan and tell him why you need non-lead- https://www.iccammo.com/collections/...ot-5-round-box

I'm going to call up to Paradise Cove tomorrow and see what is available, my favorites are in the 30's up off the lake, out of the wind and a short walk across the road for some relief.

Leon and I got moved to A. We should all get spots close together. Leon was going to call for us.

[JustinJ]

Leon and I got moved to A. We should all get spots close together. Leon was going to call for us.

Sweet. I need to call up there tomorrow.

[Shake N' Bake]

Sweet. I need to call up there tomorrow.

Somebody needs to start the seg a thread!!

[JustinJ]

Somebody needs to start the seg a thread!!

I started it! No traction yet though lol

[boomerball]

The two of us (myself and Paul- brand new hunter). I'll probably start off Friday am with my bow, Paul will be carrying a 12 gauge with 00 buckshot. Once the hogs get onto our devious plan, I'll either switch to a 12 gauge/rifled barrel and sabot copper slugs, or 50cal with solid copper sabots.

The buckshot that Paul will use is from ICC ammo, solid copper shot. Just ordered 5 boxes of 5. You can call ICC and get a discount code, speak to a guy named Ryan and tell him why you need non-lead- https://www.iccammo.com/collections/...ot-5-round-box

I'm going to call up to Paradise Cove tomorrow and see what is available, my favorites are in the 30's up off the lake, out of the wind and a short walk across the road for some relief.

thx for the tip on copper buckshot, mine arrived yesterday.
also have some steel slugs (dduplex) shipping out from midway usa today, hopefully will be covered ammo wise

[Razorback01]

Good deal Boomer, glad I could help, shipping was pretty expensive.

[grizzman]

I have some Hevishot Dead Coyote 00 buckshot for my hunting partner. I picked up some copper sabot slugs that I picked up at Grabagun last week. That should cover us.

[Blood Trail]

Guys, be sure you pattern your buckshot with various constriction tubes. A common mistake hunters make is throwing on a screw-in full choke then hit the woods. They get ticked off after wounding deer and hogs, cussing to never use buckshot again.

I reload 100% of my buckshot loads casting 98% of those with hard alloy lead.

I got loads that pattern super tight at 50 yards with a mod choke we’re using the same load with a full choke blew the pattern.

There’s special chokes out there designed specifically for buckshot. One of my sponsors is a company called Kick’s IND. they sent me two of their Buck Kicker chokes that patterning super tight with various sizes and loads.

I shot a doe last year at 56 yards with a handloaded 18 pellet 3.5” 12 ga load. 14/18 pellets hit. She didn’t take a step.

Here’s an article I wrote on that hunt:

https://thereloadersnetwork.com/2019/01/20/not-your-grand-daddys-buckshot/

Also, here’s some YouTube vids I did on buckshot:

https://youtu.be/Vtkl9rktdCY

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[Blood Trail]

One more:

https://youtu.be/yCwBDn4Lc2g

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[Blood Trail]

I’ll be using slugs again this year. Had great luck with them in the past. This year, I’m using a copper jacket tin core bull bore slug:



Last year and the year before, we smashed them using steel expanding slugs. These are a plumbata-style slug that shoots MOA at 100 yards:








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[Blood Trail]

I have some Hevishot Dead Coyote 00 buckshot for my hunting partner. I picked up some copper sabot slugs that I picked up at Grabagun last week. That should cover us.

You shooting a rifled barrel with those sabots?


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[grizzman]

You shooting a rifled barrel with those sabots?


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Yep.

[dfwhogrookie]

Anyone know the results of the helicopter hunting that is usually done in December? Did they do this as they have in years past?

[Razorback01]

They did, I can't recall how many they killed, but it was a lot less than years past, and they quit mid-hunt because of how few hogs they were able to kill.

Just my uneducated opinion, the hogs have picked up on the pattern, run out into the open field-dead.

[Blood Trail]

Bump for seg a


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