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I was hog hunting in South Texas. We were driving from one high point to another and glassing the small drainages. We were seeing a lot of coyotes and the land owner asked that they be removed also. I was using my 308 Norma Mag KDF K-15. I loaded one magazine with 165 gr. high speed low drag varmint load and the other with Norma factory 180's.

Made a realy spectacular long range shot on a coyote sneaking away from us in the bush like he thought nobody had seem him.

We move onto to the high ground and got out and started walking to the vantage point. We had walked about 15 yeards when a big boar came busting out of the bush running quartering away about 10 yards. I took aim just behind his near leg aiming so the bullet would come out in front of his far leg and go through the heart in between.

At the shot I heard the wack. The hog spun in circles then stopped and came straight at me. I fired into his head and dropped him in his tracks...dead about 5 yards away! I added the remaining two rounds from the magazine. Dropped the empty magazine and load the second Magazine with the proper Factory 180's in the gun.

The hog had a massive wound in his side right behind the leg that had barely penetrated the chest cavity. When caped out three neat little holes were found on the front of the skull where the bullets went in the brain without exploding. All four shots were the 165 gr Varmint loads.

That hog was listed for several years as the N0.9 hog in the Record Book of Exotic's top 10 taken with a Handgun. When I told the Record book people it was listed wrong, they wanted me to pay another application fee to correct the listing. Forget it!

Moral of the story go coyote hunting or go hog hunting, don't do both, or if you do use the bullet for the meaner game for everything

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DD, Ret.

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