Well how do we start, I am located outside of Austin and we have had a time with feral hogs. We kill on a bad month aprox 50 pigs,We give all the meat to whoever will take it,The problem we are having is some of the long shots are getting out of range for the 300 I shoot,I found Snipers hide and have been reading the posts and decided to build a semi-auto that i can put a good optic on and in the future add night vision too.What I have started with is a DPMS LR308 with a 24 inch barrel,harris by-pod and the next step is the optics,,the farthest shot will be aprox 500 yards.I have been looking at the Nightforce optics nxs 3.5-15x50 with a atn 3p for the night shots.ammo is looking like black hills,any thought would help,Thanks Greg