Night Hunting Pics

[Dom]

Finally winter arrives and coats the landscape with a nice white layer of snow. It makes night hunting a whole lot easier. Both shot with same weapon, a combination Bockdrilling (20ga / 30-06 / 22 Hornet), scoped w/Swarovski 3-12x50 Illuminated Dot, Waidmannsheil, Dom.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid223/p4077cc3a03cdb9f38cf988eda383aaf0/eae6f19e.jpg

Wild Boar, 30-06, 180gr Swift A-Frames, dressed out just shy of 100 lbs.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid223/pe58cae08a8f7dd4deb3039c5e779e043/eae6f19f.jpg

Red Fox, 22 Hornet
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid223/paa030c2355e41ef6a6e1fe84fbb91b5d/eae6f19d.jpg

[wrenchman]

man i like your posts i like to see stuff frome across the pond.
By the way dom we now have hogs wild in about 12 countys here in mich they are starting to be a problim.

[Nulle]

Ya those hogs have gone beyond being a problem into a disaster and they are spreading like wild fire

[Dom]

I'll have to take more pics then Wrenchman ;) glad you enjoy the pics.

I watched a group of 14 Boar out 4 to 500 meters for 1/2 hour before they worked their way to where I was for a good shot. It's harder to judge distance and size at night, but if you sit a lot at night you get pretty good at it. I've been hearing about the boar in Michigan too. You gotta keep em in check, but it provides year round hunting opportunities!! It'd be tough in southern Michigan with all the private land though, much of it crops. That's probably the biggest reason DNR doesn't want them around.

I haven't heard their out Nulle's way yet, but could be wrong. I know over here, you go up in elevation and you won't find too many of them, winters too hard for them to find good food sources.

[Don Fischer]

We had a pretty good start on hags here in Ore and fish and game called them an invassive species and is killing them all off. They are flying and shooting them last I heard.

[Nulle]

They are still in the Sourthern reaches from us and that storm in Colorado raised some concern over a free ranging hog operation but I think they go that under control.