jwp475 and I went to Shady Grove, Florida three weeks ago to hunt piggies with an outfit called Florida Slam Outfitters. This was a free-ranging, fair chase boar hunt. It proved to be a tough hunt but well worth the effort. Took a 180-pounder with a shoulder shot at 80 yards after a long stalk. The hog went down like it had been hit with a ton of bricks.

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Shot another one that we never recovered as it went into the really thick stuff and it was after 9:00 and nearly dark. It was mortally wonded and the offside shoulder was badly damaged. Bummer to lose the animal, but it happens unfortunately........

Here are some necropsy photos to illustrate the heavy damaged delivered by hardcast flat-nosed bullets. I shoot a 420 grain WFN that was designed by bfrshooter, that flies straight even at distance. I am very happy with the resuilts!

Here is the offside shoulder:

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The two pistoleros........(but jwp cheated and used a rifle on the two hogs he shot! :D)

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Neet, thanks for the pics.:cool:
Wish I could have been there. The pigs are moving out of the Sipsy Wilderness south and are getting near my place so I will probaly be 'cooken pork' shortly mysellf.;)

....nice shooting.

Jim

Thank you, Jim! This trip was a lot of fun and the first time with this outfitter. I can assure you that I will be back!

This was a fair chase hunt and if I had not "cheated" the possibilty remains high that we both would have come out empty handed. We saw a lot of hogs, just not in handgun range, I shot both of ones that I took on the last day at 350 yards and the second one late in the afternoon and then we consentrated all of our combined efforts to getting one for Whitworth

LOL!! You're right JWP! If you hadn't broken the dry spell, we wouldn't have gotten anything!