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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