Nice animals, guys! I had some luck as well.
Yesterday I managed to shoot these two boars during the canola harvest.
Harvest hunting is pretty popular here, since it gives you a chance to thin out the boar population significantly without tedious night hunting.
These two exited the field along with three others. The first one I shot at around 130m. It fled a good 40m and then went down. The 196gr. bonded soft point from my 8x57JS hit it right behind the shoulder blade and pierced both lungs.
After a few minutes, my dad and our combine driver went up to the kill and I climbed off my stand to join them. When I got there, however, they told me that the small group had not gone far and was just behind the crest of a small hill.
We quickly forged a plan and they took the combine around the hill to flush them over to my side. I turned the scope down to 2x and took position. I saw the boars at the hilltop, but I could not shoot, since there was no backdrop for the bullet.
The combine driver moved back around the hill to give me a safe shot and I slowly moved towards my game. Suddenly I lost sight of them. They surely couldn't have just vanished, could they?
That's when they stood up - a good 30 yards away from me. I took aim and as the riflestock firmly embedded itsself in my shoulder I led the first boar. The shot broke and the boar dropped like a sack of potatoes.
The bullet had, as I would later find out, obliterated the cervical spine. I approached the downed boar with my rifle at the ready. For good measure, I put another round between the ears of the boar.
We loaded them on the combine's header and took them back to the car, so I could drive back to the farm and field(?) dress them. This is also when the picture was taken.
Don't laugh, the combine makes 'em look smaller
Both were around 65lbs.
Spends all the gold and money to buy new weapons in the shape of guns.
