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Angelia Boykin of Laurel, Mississippi is not your usual southern belle.  You might say she's more of a southern sniper in her camo gear.  I have known Miss Boykin for many years now and have written a number of stories for various outdoor magazines on her hunting exploits. Sitting in a sniper training tower with an Accuracy International .308, motive meets the moment.  I plant it every year for deer hunting, but now I find that the hogs have moved in and just destroyed the field,” says Boykin. 

“The pigs have rutted up the field so bad now that I can hardly even drive the food plot tractor over it. I have to put the tractor in low range gear to keep from tearing up the equipment. I knew for sure that I had to make a plan to take care of the pigs.”

If you’re wild hog in eastern Alabama, you should most definitely fear the night, especially any night that AJ Niette is out hunting.  Niette, a retired engineer, prowls the agricultural fields near his home in Smiths Station, Alabama, night vision equipment at the ready, looking for the nocturnal pigs. Farmers here are hard hit by the destructive hogs, which root up their fields and destroy their crops.  They routinely ask Niette if he can trim back the rampant hog populations.

Niette’s equipment starts with a .223 AR-15 rifle custom-made by DoubleStar Corporation of Winchester, Kentucky.   It’s topped with a D-760 Gen 3 Standard 6x Night Vision Scope.  Also in his kit is the a Flir 307 H Series thermal imaging camera, doubling as a spotting scope.