Lee Loader

Just smoked a feral hog at 6:00 am with my Savage 170 chambered in 35 Rem using my TLC359-190-RF. Love the 35 Rem; shooting a Marlin 336D, Remington 600, & the Savage.

Don't really need to hotrod the cartridge either especially with a lead RF or FN bullet. With the Savage I use 35.0 grains of H4895 and from the 22" barrel see only 1970 FPS with the 190 grain bullet. Still, at 80 yards it dropped the hog like a sack of taters.



Love this rifle but I guess I love them all or I get rid of them. Actually, I always felt the 170 was a real under appreciated "sleeper" especially the rifles chambered in 35 Rem. This rifle has a Weaver 2-7x32 but after one more shot, that scope is being moved to my Rem 722 chambered in 300 Savage. I'm going to put a Sightron SI Hunter 1.75-4x32. I'm looking at that scope to replace a number of Bushnell 1.5-4.5x32s.

I might have had a run in with this hog at some time past, It is missing it's left front leg! Perfect alignment for the shoulder shot that drops them hard... gone low.



He is getting big enough to start pushing out some nice cutters...



Well, I got to get busy, long live the 35 Rem!

I wonder if one of that pigs buddies ate his leg when it fell off.

A local farmer was just barely saved years ago. When he overturned the tractor and was pinned under it in the pig lot. He came out of it with all his parts, but they had an awful time with his leg. Hogs really tore it up bad.

I guess they will eat anything.

Steve wrote:......I guess they will eat anything.

And enjoy it. I've seen them rip a dog apart and while ripping eating.

I've always said that I won't see the sunrise if something puts me down on the ground out back at night.

Ranch Dog wrote:I've always said that I won't see the sunrise if something puts me down on the ground out back at night.

Guess we will know what happened if you ever stop posting.

Awesome, It's always a head scratcher when seeing wildlife and odd injuries. It sure doesn't look like it was starving from being 3 legged. Amazing how life adapts

I worked with a woman who only had two fingers on one hand. A hog had bitten them off when she was a child.

Not an animal to be messed with. Kill'em all, RD.

klr wrote:Not an animal to be messed with. Kill'em all, RD.

I'm working on it, one hog at a time.

When I hunted hogs the freezer was the limiting factor.