MCgunner
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I'm glad all you got was a scar on your leg, and not your groin shredded, or your femoral artery cut.
Me, too, but that IS how natural selection works, ya know.
I'm glad all you got was a scar on your leg, and not your groin shredded, or your femoral artery cut.
It's true, I've experienced it firsthand as I'm sure others on this forum have. I hold all species I hunt in high regard and make maximum effort to recover them all, except hogs. I won't trail them alone or at night anymore. And that really doesn't matter much because I almost exclusively head shoot. I cant remember the last time I pulled the trigger and he wasn't DRT. With well north of 200 hog kills behind me it doesn't bother me to not take a shot unless it's optimum. I cant say the same for some of the leasemates I've had. Left unchecked though, they are a pox on the land and I know of no other animal that I hold such contempt for.I tend to forget the enormous damage to the land that hogs do out in Texas.
This can easily be avoided.... If you're not sure of a quick kill, just pass on the shot. There will be plenty more coming along. Especially in Texas, from what I'm told by reatives.If you have wounded an animal, it is your responsibility and duty as an honorable sportsman to track it and finish it, whatever the personal affront. If you made the bad shot, you are at fault, not the animal.
Unless of course you try to shoot them in the forehead. If you do that they fall down....then get up and say,"Hey you dummy, that hurts!!!"No, you do not need an RPG and they do not wear armor...
No, you do not need an RPG and they do not wear armor...
excellent advice. Feral hogs were the 2nd hunt ( admittedly ) been the only REAL hunting trip ive been on ( my parents are kind of hippies - i had the pleasure of going to my good friend's aunt's ranch out in texas - some 44thousand acres, beautiful land and state! and im from Santa Barbara Ca!!!! ) was a hog hunt.Just remember, a feral hog is just that , a wild hog, they can, and have killed hunters before . A second and third gereation feral hog will even grow tusks. I would use nothing lighter than at least a 30-30. My self, I used a .308. For all of you city folk who have never been around hogs before, farmers were always very carefull about getting into a hog pen. Even so called " tame" hogs will attack you at times. I know of one old farmer in Michigan who walked with a limp for that very reason. The only reason he's not dead is that he was able to get back over the fence. We had a boar "(turned that sucker into bacon, ha ha ) that would watch you out of the corner of his eyes, and as soon as you were more than a foot or so from the fence he would charge. Before we converted him into a good hog he ate a lot of our chickens. He also taught the other hogs how to corner a chicken and kill it. Hogs are smarter than dogs and they love fresh meat.
but my friend Jim's aunt is the one that put it down.
If you're going for the usual behind the shoulder shot
.22 Magnum [from a rifle] will kill them instantly with a head shot each time (just put it in the ear). Hunting on foot with such is...fun.
A handgun will certainly drop one, and plenty of guys use them. But you want to wait for the right shot and do some serious practicing before you try it. It really is best to drop them with the first shot. They are not armor plated, and they're not some kind of a super dragon. But they are nasty when wounded and in heavy brush they have a big advantage over you.I have no experience hunting hogs, but I would like to try handgun hunting.
How about handgun hunting, if legal? I am think about getting a 454 Casull. I would like to go hog hunting with it.
Yep, you were in Texas, where the women are 10 times more dangerous than the hogs