Palmetto State Armory Boar

Palmetto State Armory 223 Boar

    

                Another fine boar off of a small parcel of property that hogs travel through often called E's stand. This 245# boar was cruising through the area and fell to the Palmetto State Armory 223 Wylde SS 1:7 twist 18" barrel topped with ATN's Thor-HD 640 5-50x 100 MM thermal scope. The PSA AR-15 teamed with Night Ops LLC 223 55 grain NBT bullets to drop this boar in his tracks.

          The hunt was actually for a group of small pigs that were hitting the property early and started as a baiting run which included checking cameras. The sounder of small hogs had already moved through but I noticed one picture of a boar that told me one was in the area. I was waiting on a friend that was hunting down the road and decided to just put an hour in this property just in case something came through.

      I caught heat on my ATN OTS 384 2-8X Thor - HD thermal scanner and quickly jumped to my PSA AR-15. I caught the boar just as he past a pile of dead root systems as he cruised through looking for food or love. One shot from the PSA in the Palmetto State and another big boar falls to the Mailman.

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"Palmetto State Armory SS 223 Wylde in the Palmetto State hog hunt"

End of July Boar

                                          End of July Boar

          We are halfway through the hottest time of the year and the hog hunting is still hot here in South Carolina. Hogs are on the corn mostly as fields are high and the ground is hard from lack of rain. Bait spots near water are producing this time of year as these are the areas that give the hogs access to the things they want most now, water,mud and food. 

        My first set was on another stand that we had just taken a double off of and I really was just testing that area and checking the cameras to see how soon the hogs returned after a harvest. After a short set I pulled the card and saw 6AM was the hot time there so I went to plan B.

       Shamrock stand is a stand located in a wooded bottom just next to a creek that runs even at this time of year and the bait was placed in holes dug two foot deep and filled with sour corn. The holes make the hogs work for their meal and keep the hogs there a long time for us to catch them. Ditches running off the main creek hold rain water and are perfect wallows spots for the swine.

    Trail camera footage showed a large boar, huge sow and two black and white, small spotted boars were using the area. The multi-colors are off limits until they get bigger so I was targeting the two larger hogs. I  slipped into Shamrock a little after midnight for a short sit. I turned the corner to get to the blind and this 186 # boar was already digging at the holes.

    Tonight I had the 300 Blackout on top of the tripod with an ATN X-sight 4k 3-14 for optics. Predator Tactics Coyote Reaper XXL was mounted on the front of my AR to light up the target and the Night Ops LLC 300 Blackout 110 grain Controlled Chaos in the chamber.

   The steep incline called for a slightly lower aiming point and the equipment did it's job dropping the large boar in the hole it was eating from......

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Hunter's 100 mm double

                                                 
                                                      Hunter's 100mm Double


              As we hit the end of July and head into August, the hogs in the upstate of South Carolina are on the corn piles very heavy and often. Bait sites closest to water seem to be paying off the best with family groups visiting often and staying long. A new property with beautiful fields with an intersection of two creeks that create a V at the field edge where the hogs enter the lush green hay field got the name "The V stand". This stand produced pictures of 8 or more larger hogs, mostly sows and countless little hogs. Daylight camera video was present as well as midnight visits. The intersection of creeks is about 400 yards from the road with the possibility of a harvest on the walk in as the hogs feed on the hay fields in this beautiful bottom.

         We entered the property to find four resident deer bedded in the first field so we stalked past and made our way to the bait station scanning with our ATN OTS 384 2-8x. Once we got into view of the V stand sight itself I noticed four hogs in the bait with my scanner. We stalked the field edge in the shadows as a full moon was over-head. The long narrow field was perfect for stalking close as each side of the field was lined with tall leafy trees that cast many shadows.

       We got to the last stand of three large oaks about 83 yards from the bait pile and my son set up the tripod topped with a PSA AR-15 in 223 Wylde with a 1:7 twist and an 18" barrel.
On top of the PSA was my ATN 640 5-50x 100 mm Thor-HD. In the chamber was the Night Ops LLC 55 grain 223 Nosler Ballistic Tip bullets.

     The stage was set as my son put the cross-hairs on the largest of the four hogs and dropped the 160# sow immediately. Two hogs ran to the brush and a third hesitated a bit too long . My son waited for the perfect angle as the 115# boar turned and we had a double on the ground and two drop shots on video.

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