A few more swine with the 96/44 and Lyman Devastator

[Fenring]

Hi everyone, just been away for a few days in Northern New South Wales, hunting pigs off the dirt bike with the Ruger 96/44.

Load was the Lyman Devastator cast from air cooled COWW's and loaded over a 'decent' amount of AR2205 / H110 for 1650fps.

My first little boar of the trip jumped up off a sandhill where he'd been sunning and fell to the 275gr Lyman Devastator, that was my chosen load for the trip for the Ruger 96/44.





The pigs were annoyingly nomadic, and you'd come across good amounts of sign in places, but they'd clearly moved on to other places where there was water and feed.


There had been a mob here but they'd moved on and were nowhere to be found.





This bloke had probably been part of it, and I shot him about 2km away under a lignum bush.





He's in there....somehow concealed in a scrawny lignum bush beside the tree on the left.

[Fenring]

After a few days we were able to have a go out getting further out to the red soil country and some good sandhills and thickets. Most of the big gum cowls were full of water and you'd find yourself on dry ground one second and sinking into a quagmire the next and I bogged my bike more than once.


"Track conditions are rated as heavy today."



A couple of times we put mobs up but for the most part there wasn't any quality to speak of.



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This was one of a little mob in a stand of skinny gum tree saplings in a clay pan – they utterly refused to come out so we just send the lead in until the survivors broke cover.

[Fenring]

Most days we had a BBQ lunch out in the paddock so we could keep going most of the day. Once the cold weather cleared it was pretty nice in the sun and I dozed off for a bit at this spot. 





We did get one more night of rain and the following day was a cool 11 degrees so that was another half a day wasted, but the dog team went out that arvo and got three that were trotting out in the open.


The day after that the sun came out and we were all back in action though.


Occasionally I’d find a pig under a lignum bush but of course they can be hard to see and I’m sure I sailed right by a few – this bloke broke cover but stood there instead of doing the Harry Holt.
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The best results I had, was by just idling around on or around the sandhill country and looking for pigs camped beside trees and logs in the sun and I got a few like that.
Sort of orange and black boar I shot camped against a tree.







Tally was 51 pigs for the trip, not bad given the conditions.

[richhodg66]

Enduro bikes, lever guns and a target-rich environment. Looks like more fun than a man ought to be allowed to have, LOL.

Good times. Congratulations on the hunt.

[Fenring]

Thanks. Yes, it is a lot of fun!

[MrWolf]

Can't beat that. Looks like you had a good time and +1 on using levers!

[harley45]

What a great trip congrats!

[Hamish]

Enduro bikes, lever guns and a target-rich environment. Looks like more fun than a man ought to be allowed to have, LOL.

Good times. Congratulations on the hunt.

Man, ain't that the ever livin truth!

Fenring, fill us n on your "back up" cam? Go-Pro?

[Fenring]

Thanks guys.

The action camera is a Replay.

http://www.replayxd.com/product/1080-mini/

[crowbuster]

Very nice.I enjoy your posts. thanks

[jmort]

Thank you for taking the effort to put this great thread up. This is great stuff to see and read.

[white eagle]

Enduro bikes, lever guns and a target-rich environment. Looks like more fun than a man ought to be allowed to have, LOL.

Good times. Congratulations on the hunt.

yes,yes I agree
what fun and camaraderie

[runfiverun]

11 that's what? @ 54-f.
oh man I wish, those partly cloudy day's with a slight breeze and temps like that are perfect for rock-chuck hunting.
they come out and lay on the rocks warming themselves and seem to go into a little doze, you can usually get another 50 yds closer before they sense/see you coming.

[robg]

I'm envious

[tdoyka]

very nice!!!

[Fenring]

11 that's what? @ 54-f.
oh man I wish, those partly cloudy day's with a slight breeze and temps like that are perfect for rock-chuck hunting.
they come out and lay on the rocks warming themselves and seem to go into a little doze, you can usually get another 50 yds closer before they sense/see you coming.

It was unseasonably wet and cold this year - it's normally twice that temperature.

[725]

I've enjoyed your former stories about the bike / lever & cast boolit hunting trips. I can hardly imagine more fun. You're a lucky man. Keep the stories and photos coming.
725

[Fenring]

Thanks mate. Planning another trip as we speak. Boolits to be cast, cases to be stuffed.

[castalott]

Looks like FUN! Please tell about other guns/loads and how they work. But I really can't imagine anything better than 44 Mag for the type of hunting you do....

Recovered boolet pictures would also be nice.....

Dale

[CPL Lou]

Recover any boolits so we can get an idea how they performed ?
Thanks !

CPL Lou