Welcome man, my advice from personal experience, I'm pretty new figuring it all out as well. Just got back from hunting pig on mil land last week with a big remi .308
Long story short, I effing missed.
Tracked a pig for a few days and on the last min of the last day he just so happened to get the drop on me when I hiked back to my truck. Literally was 50 yds away. He bolted and I tried to get a shot on him. I had him dead to rights as he was running away but i couldn't get the cross hairs steady on him to save my life. Legs turned to jelly with adrenaline and I found myself in a position where I had no choice but to try and shoulder fire my big remi 700. He got to about 90 to 100yds, tried to pop off a shot...missed.. left me a trail of piss that smelled like onions and body odor
Now I have anger problems. Immediately went to the store and grabbed a shooting stick and tried to catch him the following day. No dice.
100 things I could have done to make the shot. Let excitement take over.
Next time I'm taking my AR out.
Don't take too much gun/scope out
Take a shooting stick. Practice running up a hill and getting your heart rate up and making a shot.
Get a good pack, good glass, range finder. Make a list of stuff you think you might need before you go out.
Have a plan for every situation, if you do get a kill on a pig just before sundown make sure you got a solid plan on processing it. EX Don't wait until get out of the field at 11pm and not have a cooler ready.
Scout,scout,scout and scout. Research, scout,scout,scout.
Understand wind and make a solid plan for entering a spot or a hill you want to watch.
Not a lot of pigs out here but they exist, trust me.
For now, I'm going to wait until winter when the ground gets softer. Right now it's dry and windy. I consider myself very lucky seeing one when/where I did.
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