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The first official East Texas hunt for the SHWAT™ Team was an exciting success!  We were well equipped with a wide variety of some of the best gear available and had good land to hunt on.  Our kit included prototypes of new Laser Devices NV gear, Nitehog NV and thermal optics, EOTech, and much more.  It's all part of the tactical hog hunting fun!  

SHWAT™ fielded a team at the Wulf Outdoor Sports Wild Hog Roundup, and I'm pleased to tell you that the gear, guns and even the hogs cooperated nicely.  You'll have to read the rest of the story to get the details and the final score, but I think you'll like how it goes.

Regular visitors to SHWAT™ will know that I am a big fan of the ammunition made by Dynamic Research Technologies or DRT.  My first experience with this fine ammo came last November in Oklahoma, when I used  DRT’s 79 grain Terminal Shock in .223 to take down a 210 pound wild boar—with a single shot to the ribcage.  Impressive!  The non-lead, penetrating frangible DRT bullet is designed to punch through hard material like bone and hogshields ("penetrating"), and then essentially explode into the soft tissue beyond (frangible), completely dispersing all its terminal energy and knockdown power within the hog.  There's a picture of a gel block you want to see inside this article that shows the would channels for the .308 and .223 DRT ammo.

Recently, while on a hog hunt in East Texas, I had the chance to use DRT’s .308 Winchester, a 125 grain boat-tailed hollow point, and the results were devastating.  I was night hunting...

Ancient wisdom says we are all known by the company we keep, and SHWAT couldn’t be happier to file this initial recap of the $28,000 purse Wild Hog Roundup, sponsored and organized by Wulf Outdoor Sports. The SHWAT Team was there, sponsored by our good friends at Crossbreed Holsters.  You’ll like the kit we took along – gear from Nighthog (Night Vision and Thermal), DBAL-D² and prototype SPIR from Laser Devices, Laser Genetics ND3, LaCrosse Snake Boots, EOTech sites and magnifiers, Leupold  scope, Trijicon ACOG, Insight M6X white light/laser combo, and a pair of Blackhawk boots.  Rifles included guns from Accurate Armory, Rock River Arms, and Armalite.  Ammunition was DRT and Winchester.  You’ll want to dig into this for pictures, details and more.

I actually heard him first, walking through the dead leaves.  I assumed it was a deer.  A glance through my binoculars revealed black and squat and knew I had a pig coming in.  Heart went, stutt-TER!  I watched the coal black wild boar trot down the far wooded hillside.  He got to the edge of the woods and paused, his nose to the air, then headed into the field.  He seemed to know there was some corn scattered around the center of the field and made right for it.  Once he got his nose down in the corn, he turned and gave me a broadside view at about 100 yards.

I raised my Performance Center M&P15 rifle in 5.56mm, made by Smith & Wesson, and laid it over the front rail of the stand.  Placing the red dot from the EOTech holographic sight on the pig’s shoulder, I let out my breath and squeezed off a shot.  

And promptly missed, pulling the shot high!

The pig let out a squeal and a snort, spun around and took off at a dead run—right in my direction.