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rotor wrote: Do you ever harvest the meat?.

Yes I do, but only when the weather is cool, and my deep freeze or a friends deep freeze is getting low. Since I can bee choosy, I only eat the ones that are 80 lbs and under. And then, I will set the traps so that I can decide when to clean them.

puma guy wrote: He wants to use it for hogs and anticipates shots from 75-150 yards.

In the last 10 years I have killed over 500 hogs. Why so many? Because they tear up everything they encounter around my house. It gets dang frustrating when the root up the yard, destroy a drainage ditch, or rough up a pasture so bad you can't mow it. I have a feeder about 75 yds from the house with a light on it. They come at night to the feeder, and when i see them out the window, I get a rifle and kill as many as I can.

At first I was using one of my standard bolt action rifles, but when 15 show up and you only get 1, time after time, I started thinking there has got to be a better way. Remember, it's night time and they can run out of the light before the muzzle flash fades. So, I rigged up a .556 AR with an EoTech and a tactical light. I practiced at night using some old bow targets, with the emphasis on fast target acquisition. I don't care if they die 100 yards away. I'm not trying to recover the animal. In fact, it's a lot easier for me if they do run off and die in the woods rather than me having to drag them off right before bed time.

After the first shot, you get about 2 seconds before they all disappear into the brush near my feeder. I can now consistently shoot 2 to 3 hogs, and occasionally 4 before they get to the brush. I could never do that with any kind of magnification. Shooting with both eyes open, you bring the red dot to the target you have already acquired with your eyes. You don't move the gun around looking to find the target in your scope. With practice, you can get pretty fast.

Please don't think I'm exaggerating on the number of hogs I kill. This summer, just for giggles, I started marking them on a calendar. Since June 1st I have killed 32 hogs with this set up. All from my front porch, and all between sundown and 10:00 PM. They don't come every night, and sometimes they will skip a week or so.

Tell that to your friend. Of course, if he is only going hog hunting occasionally, and wants to keep the meat, then I would use a scope.