I was with a friend of mine and we were walking/stalking for wild hogs around my Dad's house in Clute, Texas. My buddy had just bought a Mossberg 500 from a pawn shop the day before. I was carrying my Benelli SBE with 26" barrel.
After about an hour, we found a herd of hoggs next to a drainage ditch that lead out into a huge field. We knelt lower in the high grass and let them come towards us. Their heads were all down, and they were completely oblivious to our presence.
Once they were about 25 yards away, we whispered to eachother...One, two, three. I raised up and touched off the Federal 2 3/4" copper plated buckshot while aiming about an inch above the largest pig's back. She dropped imediately. The rest of the bunch all scattered. I threw out one more hay maker and blasted a baby, stopping it in it's tracks. I asked my friend how many he got, and he said he forgot to remove his safety, so he never fired. Haha.
I gather up the baby, which was not such a baby, about a 30 pound piggie and walked over to where the sow was dropped. Turns out, another 30 pound piggie laid just five yards beyond the big one.
Two shots = three pigs
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