To South Carolina that is, to visit his sister. And since he was in the neighborhood we met to do a little pig chasing on the Savannah River. Since shotguns is our connect they were our weapons. We had a couple of days to hunt a friends property and got there Sunday pm. The fast moving storm front that had us dodging fallen trees stalled out into a steady rain but we made a brief expedition into the big river bottomland anyway. Just before dark we got into a bunch of piglets and sows when a few of the little ones showed themselves.....raining, near dark in the swamp....ok, enough excuses. Torched of some lee slugs at several moving in the reed cane and tallied one snack pig and a probable on a sow. BB couldn't get my 220 to cooperate in the rush so on we go. Moving back to the high ground got a look a bigger animal easing along the edge of a field. BB moved after him but I saw him cross the road ahead and gave chase. Finally got a 50 yd shot moving through some tall weeds and knocked him down with a lee slug but he gained his legs and made off. Caught hin laid out in the next clearing but he jumped up and gave me a butt shot only and didn't see him again....really dark now.
Ok this is a lotta talk so here's the summation: We killed six or so pigs on Monday and Tuesday with a couple of probables. A couple of old codgers ain't covering much ground walking so we puttered along in an old jeep. Most of the shots were running by the time we saw them crossing the 2 track through the woods. We won no marksmanship awards but It was a great blessing for me to meet and spend time with Tom Nolan, aka Bikerbeans. He's one tough nut who's not afraid to pull the trigger!
Only took a couple of pics but enough to prove it happened.
Tom with his first of the trip, his full bore slugs take no prisoners
My Lyman connected with this one trotting at about 100 yds
Swamp all around