The Crimson Trace MVF-515, one of my favorite AR-15 accessories is a well thought out, useful and high quality AR-15 accessory. If you are tired of trying to find the right combination of rail mounted grips, flashlight mounts, laser mounts and keeping up with all the...
Making an impact – Black Dagger Military Hunt Club
Every now and then I run across somebody doing something extraordinary. Someone serving others without being asked, and at personnel expense in time, energy, money, or all of the above. This is the case for Dave Winters and the whole team at Black Dagger Military Hunt...
Tactical Long Range Precision Rifle Seeks Cutting Edge Chassis – Enter the Cadex Defense Strike Dual
It's built like a tank, maximizes accuracy, is modular, uniquely mitigates recoil, and if looks could kill there'd be no need for a barreled action in it. It is the Cadex Defense Strike Dual chassis. Yes, I know, it sounds like propaganda. But seriously, when we set...
Tools of the Trade – Nitehunt XLR Tactical Hunting Light
Here in the south where most wild hogs live, it’s getting warmer. The high today at my home is predicted to be 87 degrees. Soon, hunting feral hogs in daylight will be futile in many places. As tactical hog hunters, we will be forced to operate in darkness. We will...
What Would You Do for a Shot at a $28K Hog Hunt Purse?
SHWAT™ arrived at the Wild Hog Roundup in Center, Texas, on Saturday, April 6 in the form of long-time Special Hog Weapons and Tactics™ writer Dr. John Woods and me, Brian McCombie, SHWAT™ contributor and NRA Field Editor. So far, we’ve hunted two solid days, and the...
First Hunt – Natalie Foster from A Girl’s Guide to Guns Takes On Tactical Hog Hunting
By Natalie Foster at A Girl's Guide to Guns It all began with an email from Nathan Dudney of Dynamic Research Technologies. We had met a few months earlier on a rainy April day at a Starbucks in Memphis. I was on my range tour trip for my website,...
Best Tactical Hog Hunting Stories of 2012
It's a wrap - 2012 has just flown by, and SHWAT.com is now a year old! In that year you've seen SHWAT launch from obscurity and - many thanks to you - grow dramatically. We hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have. We've been privileged to bring you stories from...
Hog Hunting, Adrenalin and Crack Cocaine – A Second Look
Hog Hunting, Adrenalin and Crack Cocaine - What do all those have in common you might ask? Well, first of all I can recommend two of the three as great ways to get a thrill. One is illegal and morally questionable, not to mention life wrecking. All are addictive, all...
How to Kill and Recover a Hog
Having now shot over 1000 hogs with calibers ranging from .223 to 9.3x62, I feel I've learned a little about shot placement and what hogs do after being shot. I’ll share with you my observations based on years of real world hog hunting. Caliber, bullet, shot...
Trijicon ACOG – Why Tactical Hunters Love this Optic
As is obvious by my previous articles, I'm a fan of mixing the tactical world and the wild hog hunting world. I think they have a great crossover, that skill in one arena pays dividends in the other. On that same theme, let’s talk about the use of traditionally...