Hunting hogs with night vision, a machine gun, and a suppressor

The sledgehammer approach

For hunting at night I have adopted two strategies. One is the sledgehammer approach, which typically involves me running around in my jeep with the goggles spotting for a pack of swine and then hosing them down. My other strategy involves sitting in a blind and waiting patiently for the pigs to come to me.

When I’m taking the sledgehammer approach, I use one of these:

These are AN/PEQ-2 IR illuminator/designators. The problem with these is that the overwhelming majority of them you see for sale are stolen military property, so make sure that you get some that aren’t. They are also very dangerous. While they do not emit a visible laser, they do emit a powerful infrared laser that can cause permanent eye damage, and the warning label makes that clear:

When using the sledgehammer approach I have a designator on my firearm (typically a machine gun) and drive until I see a pack which will be greeted first by an invisible laser sighted in to my point of impact, and then by a hose of lead courtesy of a legally registered M10 submachine gun with a Lage slowfire upper. (In Texas you can hunt hogs with machine guns):

And like I said I have had luck with this approach!

And of course the hog was cleaned that night and put on ice so we could eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner the next day:

Alex C.

Alex is a writer for All Outdoor and The Firearm Blog who was born and raised in Texas with years of experience in hunting, shooting competitions, and general collecting. A degree in History from Baylor University with an emphasis on the Age of Imperialism and a minor in English have contributed to his love of both early and modern firearms technology.