All in all, fun – and effective – sniping from 100-125 yards on loner hogs or pairs. A couple made it across a property line into thick woods where we couldn’t pursue them.
None that we recovered made it further than 75 yards. 308 Maker Bullets dropped most of the hogs where they stood. Aiming at their necks, we pulled triggers simultaneously. Out in some large fields we spotted big pigs loitering alone or in pairs. This is a great method for night hunting hogs, but that’s another story for another day. We’re hunting large familiar wheat fields, scanning for hogs with a Pulsar Quantum Lite XQ30V thermal monocular and EOTech X640 thermal monocular. Picture this – It’s after dark, either side of midnight in late Spring. If that sounds like fun to you, we’re on the same page! He sometimes used one of my camera tripods for support and he never missed on this hunt. Jared brought a Remington 700 Tactical Chassis Rifle with a SilencerCo Omega to keep it quiet and a several year old ATN Thor thermal optic. Using this kit, I had zero missed shots on the hunt. My plain 700 SPS doesn’t have a picatinny rail on the stock, so when it came time to shoot, I just balanced it on my ZRODELTA DCLW tripod. We’d be hunting at night so I borrowed a Pulsar Core FXQ38 thermal clip-on and mounted it to a Nightforce NXS 3.5-15x scope. I really like everything about the Rugged Suppressors Surge 762 silencer so I mounted it for this hunt. We each brought a Remington 700 mine a run of the mill SPS model with a threaded barrel, but upgraded with the excellent two stage Calvin Elite Timney Trigger. Having the right gear for the hunt was clearly paramount. Could we take down hogs one at a time without disturbing the big groups we typically engage? With my long time hunting partner and friend Jared, I headed to my favorite Texas hog hunting haven to see how this hog sniping might work. It wasn’t long and a box of Maker’s 180 grain Rex 308 Subsonic ammo showed up. It turns out that Texas Parks and Wildlife had recently contacted him with the same idea. 308? When I brought up the idea, some people scoffed, but not Paul Hendrixson, cofounder of Maker Bullets.
#308 winchester supersonic vs subsonic bdc reticle movie#
You know the often used movie scene where the shooter mounts a silencer to a rifle, aims, then gets a too-good-to-be-true muffled pop as the gun fires while the bullet miraculously flies 500 yards or so taking down the target? You may know that the 300 Blackout can get close to Hollywood quiet, especially in a bolt action rifle with subsonic ammo.
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