A Happy 16 yr Old!

[Leslie Sapp]

1st Hog
1st large game with his .35
1st large game with one of his handloads.
1st large game with a cast boolit. (RCBS 200 gr, air cooled ww. over Varget)

He went down to the back of the property after school today and stalked a herd of about ten. From about forty steps, the ball entered just behind the left shoulder and exited about the last rib on the far side. No lungs left and not much liver, and she still ran about 50 yards before piling up. Not a real large exit hole, so I'm thinking we'll go to 1/2 pure, 1/2 ww next batch, for a little more expansion.

Sorry I don't have a better pic, he had it strung up and was skinning it when I got there.

Yep, I'm a proud papa!:-D

[Idaho Mule]

Nice job all around!! I love hunting with my sons too, and seeing them do it all by themselves is even better, you have taught him well. JW

[338RemUltraMag]

Cool deal, I have yet to anchor a critter with a cast boolit, hopefully next season!

[crabo]

Awesome! I still think about some of the great things my dad taught me.

[Treetop]

He handloaded the cartridge, shot the hog and had it hanging before you got there! How neat is that?

All Pa-Pa has left to do is BBQ it!

[HighHook]

Good feeling being a proud papa...

[starmac]

Me thinks that young man is from texas. That translates to he also knows his way around a barbeque pit too. All dad needs to do is pop a top and eat. lol Maybe help with the tater salad. lol Tell that boy, he done a fine job, and it sounds like that boolit worked just right to my way of thinking.

[knifemaker]

Great story and picture. Tell that young man he did very well. It is good to see a teenager out having fun by hunting instead of getting into trouble as so many do today. Since he did the hard work, you owe him a good Bar-B-Cue dinner on his first hog.

[goofyoldfart]

Starmac--- I do believe he is from FL. He seems to have that sly little smile on his face that says "yep, I doo it all myself. Poppa taught me well, HUH? God Bless to all.


Goofyoldfart. :)

[larryp]

Tell him I said Good Job! I wish we had some hogs around here to hunt. Seeing all these pics and reading all these stories of hog hunting is making me jealous!

[arcticbreeze]

Congrats to him. It is nice to see the rewards of the skills a father passes to his son and will hopefully someday pass on to his son. I will bet that will be a memory he will never forget.

Marc

[sharpsguy]

Good job, I'd say. I don't think I would change the load as it seems to be working pretty well. Congratulations all the way around.

[429421Cowboy]

You have every right to be proud of him! We need more like him out there that are self sufficient and smart enough to do those things on his own! Please tell him he's what helps me keep faith in my own generation, I'd ride the river with him anytime! And i hope he sees fit to pass down the hunting, handloading, casting tradition to his kids like you did to him.
Take care.

[migtek02]

Great kid growing into a fine young man, I've got to get some land for my youngin's to roam on.

[brstevns]

Great Job. Looks as if you taught him well. I am sure you are proud. Tell him well done and keep up the good work.

[starmac]

My mistake, he is in florida. He doesn't appear to be from orlando or miami, so I'm bettin he knows his way around the barbeque. lol

[Olevern]

Great job, and a perfect size for the BBQ. Eat up!

[alrighty]

Job well done and congrats to you both!

[**oneshot**]

That is just awesome.

[runfiverun]

nicely done.
i don't think i'd change anything either.
he might have to put one in going the other way.

[GH1]

Great job!
GH18-)

[jbc]

Good job, love the good old .35. Just getting geared up for my daughter to start hunting next year, can't wait.

[tarbe]

Outstanding!

A shotgun, a rifle and a 4-wheel drive and a country boy can survive!

That boy, and a few million more like him and the Republic will be secure!


Tim

[Euan]

Well Done, the whole Job.

[TXGunNut]

nicely done.
i don't think i'd change anything either.
he might have to put one in going the other way.


Or he might want to anchor a big one. My first hog with a 35 Rem CB was well over 200 lbs. Shot went thru the hard shield and broke both shoulders. Boolit didn't exit but the hog didn't go anywhere either. I'm gonna leave that alloy just like it is!

[45sixgun]

Happy....and Normal. Good to see a boy being a boy. Congrats!

[Thumbcocker]

That picture shows that he earned that hog. Great job.

[NLS1]

Fabulous! You must be proud, I know I would be. Great that he has those skills you taught him.

My oldest son is 12 and wants to shoot and hunt all the time too. He liked watching me butcher the doe I shot this year with my bow too. He wants to learn casting and loading this summer.

Great to watch our boys grow up eh?!

Dan

[NSP64]

Oh come on now.
Did you forget where you are?
We need info!
What mold, lube, Velocity!

Tell him good job.

[Leslie Sapp]

It's the rcbs 35- 200, over varget, Randy Rats tac lube. I don't have a chrony, so I really don't know the speed. Fast enough to kill a hog, anyway. :-)

He head shot a rabbit a few weeks back with a 358156 we had loaded over 10 grains of unique in hopes of using it as a rabbit/squirrel load. The missing head clued us to the fact that this might not be the best gun/load combination for small critters.:mrgreen:

[ghh3rd]

Nice going! Geez, your sort of lucky? to have hogs running around your back yard :-)

I can see it now... "Son, go out yonder and git me a hog, folks are coming over later for a BBQ!"

[Leslie Sapp]

This is what's running around in the yard this week...64761

At least was running around. 64762

These guys have been hanging out right next to the road all week. We warned them that somebody would not be able to resist temptation, and sure enough, someone didn't. We were working on clearing some land, and started into town to get some tractor parts. When we rounded the corner by our neighbors hay field, there was a small traffic jam of trucks from various neighbors parked by the road, with them standing staring out into the field.

It seems some road hunter had taken a pot shot at one of the big gobblers with a .22 magnum, wounded it and was then interrupted by a neighbor before he could retrieve it. The guy took off and left the turkey wounded in the middle of a 40 acre hay patch.

We all stood around a moment and considered which of the guns wedged in the nooks and crannies of the various trucks present would be most suitable for the job at hand. After some discussion, (and digging behind truck seats) a .410 single shot and one (1) 3" #7 1/2 shotshell was produced. Most of those present having had personal experience with wounded turkeys in the past, we then considered these two facts:
1. This was probably going to turn into a footrace.
2. The 16 year old was 30 years younger than the next oldest.

The boy was then handed the shotgun and unleashed. He began to cautiously approach the turkey and the turkey began to do what wounded turkeys always do - head for the horizon. For a bird with a .22 magnum through both hips, he gave a young-un in cowboy boots a run for his money, with a bunch of old farts standing on the road cheering on the proceedings.
I'm telling you folks, turkey hunting as a spectator sport oughta be a money making franchise, if we can figure out how to make it work!! He finally gained on the bird enough to screech to a halt, throw up the little gun and whack the old bird right in the back of the head with a load of 7 1/2's.

So, I'm sitting here this evening with a belly full of fried turkey breast, still quietly snickering from time to time over the ludicrousness of the whole event.:)

[runfiverun]

now that got me laughing too.
our fall hunt overlaps the deer hunt.
hitting a turkey in the head with a deer rifle at 125 yds is not easy, especially from a field position.
it took me three shots [I gave up on the head on the third shots] and i took it at the body neck junction.
little girl couldn't see what I was shooting at but certainly could have seen a deer if one had been there.
she was trying to figure out what I was doing, and right after the third shot she YELLS "what are you shooting at"?
so I made her walk over and get it. [I had to give her hand signals when she got close]

[292]

Great job on the hog and the turkey. Y'all live in a game rich area. Turkey season started there yet?

[Leslie Sapp]

Started last weekend, but other than the above fiasco, we haven't had a chance to do much about it.

[Gibbs44]

You should be proud, I'd be proud too. Good job with him.

I hope he has many more in the future.

[Crusty Deary Ol'Coot]

Better then GREAT Leslie!!!!!!!!

Without knowing which bullet your are using, I'll make the following comments.

Just a thought here. I use the 50/50 - WW/Lead in my 45/70, quenching the bullets in cold water as they drop from the mold.

However, seeing the fantastic results from a WFN cast - non-expanding bullet, I wonder if posssibly a different bullet profile might get er done for your son without the possibly unrelyable expansion.

With the WFN, at least in my case, I don't need or want expansion.

I desire ZERO expansion from the 45/70 on deer and elk, but the WFN bullet profile just kills way beyond what you'd think or expect for a non-expanding bullet.

Crusty Deary Ol'Coot

[nanuk]

Great way to put meat on the table.

No GMO there!


just wondering what gun and cartridge?

looks like a Winchester, but in 35? I don't know my leverguns that well.

'nuk

[308Man]

Well Done!!!

[Leslie Sapp]

just wondering what gun and cartridge?

It's a 1964 vintage Marlin 336 RC. in .35 Remington. It belonged to a neighbor lady's deceased husband, and when the kid saw it, he fell in love with it. I have to admit, the boy's got good taste in guns!

[TheGrimReaper]

Now that is too cool. I have yet to take game with a cast boolit. Yes, a reloaded one, but not one I casted.

[KinkBreaker]

flippin awesome

[psychicrhino]

Tell him I said Good Job! I wish we had some hogs around here to hunt. Seeing all these pics and reading all these stories of hog hunting is making me jealous!

Careful what you wish for they can strip a field in a night and rplum ruin a hay meadow by filling it with craters you could lose a jeep in. Not uncommon for folks to get pics w fifty plus on a game cam. Alot of competition with the deer on food.

[H.Callahan]

Careful what you wish for they can strip a field in a night and rplum ruin a hay meadow by filling it with craters you could lose a jeep in. Not uncommon for folks to get pics w fifty plus on a game cam. Alot of competition with the deer on food.
Stiil, I'd like to live near somewhere where there was SOMETHING to hunt. Modern farming techniques and the removal of groves and wooded areas to make more farmland has really reduced the rabbit, pheasant, deer and huntable squirrel populations here. The few remaining places have been ruined by unethical hunters to the point that unless they have been friends for years with them, no landowner will allow you on their land any more.

*sigh*