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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 2388275" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>I just couldn't wait to get back so I went again in the early part of December. Mostly I was there on business but I took time to visit with friends and while visiting the friend that owns the cattle ranch we decided to cruise about a bit looking for a warthog for a meat request another friend had made. We saw this beast of a warthog trotting out toward a small pond that the cattle like to drink at and took off in pursuit. It took off to elude us and went to the far side of the water hole. My buddy handed me his enormously heavy and long suppressed Sabatti 6.5x47 target rifle (the only thing we had ammo for) and had me stick it out the window. I was facing almost directly into the sun and the washout on the image plus the pig standing in dark timber at the edge of the water hole made for extremely poor visibility as I tried to not get a 10x magnified view of the sun. As soon as the crosshairs touched grey I let fly and heard the bullet hit. El piggo responded by running hard for nearly 200m through open grassland while squirting blood like a fire hose then it keeled over. Turned out I hit it right in the hams but thanks to the target bullets I was using smashing into the hip, severing a large artery in the process, we didn't lose much meat. After we got it back to the house and got it on the scale it weighed in at exactly 100kg. Tusks were not super impressive but the thing was huge. It was too big though and the guy that wanted the meat didn't want it from such a big animal, not as good eating as the smaller ones, so it went to another local to be fed to the guy's collection of white lions which I got to visit. Being 5 feet from 6 very large females and about 50m from a very large male was a little intimidating despite them being behind a very stout fence and them being not at all interested in my presence. And yes, that's what I was wearing. Camo and boots are passe' and I wasn't really there to hunt, we just had an opportunity and took it. December in South Africa is pretty well summer but it was mostly cold and raining the whole time except for a couple days out in the Karoo when it was quite warm indeed. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]325905[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 2388275, member: 96226"] I just couldn't wait to get back so I went again in the early part of December. Mostly I was there on business but I took time to visit with friends and while visiting the friend that owns the cattle ranch we decided to cruise about a bit looking for a warthog for a meat request another friend had made. We saw this beast of a warthog trotting out toward a small pond that the cattle like to drink at and took off in pursuit. It took off to elude us and went to the far side of the water hole. My buddy handed me his enormously heavy and long suppressed Sabatti 6.5x47 target rifle (the only thing we had ammo for) and had me stick it out the window. I was facing almost directly into the sun and the washout on the image plus the pig standing in dark timber at the edge of the water hole made for extremely poor visibility as I tried to not get a 10x magnified view of the sun. As soon as the crosshairs touched grey I let fly and heard the bullet hit. El piggo responded by running hard for nearly 200m through open grassland while squirting blood like a fire hose then it keeled over. Turned out I hit it right in the hams but thanks to the target bullets I was using smashing into the hip, severing a large artery in the process, we didn't lose much meat. After we got it back to the house and got it on the scale it weighed in at exactly 100kg. Tusks were not super impressive but the thing was huge. It was too big though and the guy that wanted the meat didn't want it from such a big animal, not as good eating as the smaller ones, so it went to another local to be fed to the guy's collection of white lions which I got to visit. Being 5 feet from 6 very large females and about 50m from a very large male was a little intimidating despite them being behind a very stout fence and them being not at all interested in my presence. And yes, that's what I was wearing. Camo and boots are passe' and I wasn't really there to hunt, we just had an opportunity and took it. December in South Africa is pretty well summer but it was mostly cold and raining the whole time except for a couple days out in the Karoo when it was quite warm indeed. [ATTACH type="full" width="347px"]325905[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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