This daytime stalking has taken a little different path than it started on, but if we listen to all the posts, there is a common thread. That common thread is accuracy. Shot placement is everything in most any hunting situation. Killin' a hog in the butcher pen is an easy thing, but in the woods, a differnt situation and and something more than a .22 would be more practical to insure a quick, clean kill. Treefarmer
My fault for derailing it. I apologize :flag2
Back on the original subject. Here is a prime example of what hogs will do around a feeder during the middle of the day. This is my buddies feeder/stand. I went to check it for him. This is walking up to it at around 10AM. The feeder is set for 7AM. When I walked up to it at 10, the mornings corn was gone already.
I opened the feeder up and hit the test button so it would run a cycle. When I did, a hog started grunting in the thicket not 10 yards to the right of the feeder. He was laying in a cool spot in that thicket waiting for the feeder to go off. He smelled me and never came out. I backed off about 50 yards in this pic and waited but he decided to hold tight. When he grunted I could see the dog fennels shaking but could not see him
a big +1 to that. if on the ground shooting at a close and possibly moving animal I'd PREFER to use something large bore/heavy and moving well under 2,000fps, preferably 800-1500fps depending on bullet wt. basically your flying ashtray type ammo. slugs and 35 -45 caliber, over 180 gr's in wt. in a perfect world.
