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30-06 250 lbs.
Alright... We finally have someone who has used a spear on hogs!i hunted and killed hogs here in no.cal. coastal mountains since i was a child hogs are a blight on the land not native to the area they've crossed with russian boar and domestic pig to come up with a ferral hog/pig a breed that seems to square exponentially yearly,and tears up the landscape like roto-tillers i've used guns,629 s&w8",.357 timberwolf pump,10mm glock,6mm rem.with a mauser action,.22mag.30-30 win.lever,m1 .30 cal carbine [bought at government auction early '60s still in cosmoline]6' ironwood spear with half of a 48"planer blade,12"honed to a spear point,12"tang pinned and wire wrapped to the shaft very effective.a modern type tomahawk a friend carried in the R.o.V.N. in the '60s worked quite well a bowie knife with a 10"or"12 blade,a H&K vp70 in 9mm.the spear and knife work,as was some but not all the pistol work was done using hounds and kill-dogs,and i've forgotten a bunch.no garrote,or drug over-doses though
336A Where abouts in Ga are you at?
now that you mention it i did have a old chi-com SKS with attached bayonet[bought pre-ban] that i loaned to a friend that another friend brought hunting,and as wild as this sounds you might say the pig committed suicide with it. he by chance walked up on the boar about 180 lbs(and i have no idea why he had the bayonet deployed other then the fact he had never been hunting before and was young ,20s)we'd been hunting with dogs earlier and he said when he walked up on it, it was laying in a wallow huffing .anyway back to the suicide part,he stuck the pig head on and the bayonet went in through the rt. shoulder and lodged in the ribs,wedging the bayonet into a very surprised pig that promptly ran off with my loaned out rifle,leaving a very surprised and contrite new hunter.as he's telling us his tale of woe and meeting derision and a good bit of joshing we heard a discharge then another in the bottom of the canyon in front of us a few hundred yards away thinking poachers or dope growers,we geared up and headed down,finding the pig and my loaned SKS about a half hr. later.the animal had run into a thick patch of chemise and caused the trigger to engage on the branches,and shot him-self twice.we decided cold beer was in order back at the cabin.as interesting as that incident was i've never loaned another gun out.hunting for over 50 years,people and game, i've nearly been eaten by a bear been tree'd by large hogs thrown down a canyon by a horse,bit by kill-dogs,stumbled on to acres of primo weed and other varied and weird incidents,but i never saw a pig commit suicide before.Alright... We finally have someone who has used a spear on hogs!
Anyone ever used a bayonet on a hog? Not handheld, but still attached to the rifle?
I have to think that the old WWI era bayonets would have made pretty good pig stickers...
I hit the Near Pig broadside in the shoulder (like you're not supposed to do due to the armor plating they have).
Reminds me of a sign on the side of the road that I saw today when I was driving between Acuna, Mexico and San Antonio on US-90... It said, "Longhorn Trophy Steers"... This is an area where there are a lot of game ranches where people pay money to hunt (possibly exotic) animals on the owners' properties....22LR... but those hogs were domesticated and shot while caged for slaughter
Well, I've known a few women that could have talked that 800 lb hog to death...What about bare hands and teeth? I want to hear a story about killing an 800 pound hog with bare hands and teeth!
true they don't have plating but cut the dude some slack in your line.a 325 gr. round doesn't look to under gunned,and bad juju happens everywhere,you don't have to get out in the boonies for that.uhoh!!! i think i hear banjo music,no my mistake and what caliber is that ?.45/70,.44?didn't those guide guns come in .30/30 tooUnless I have been out yote hunting and only have my .220swift, that is where I TRY to aim. As long as you are out there hog hunting with an appropriate cartridge as well as good bullet construction and appropriate range for cartridge, that is exactly where one should be aiming. Now granted, on some boar hogs, that shield is one tough customer but in all reality, they are not armor plated troop carriers. Just make sure you are using something with enough ass to penetrate, as you have shown here with your experience, and all will end well. Go out in the brush with some tiny little cartridge just because you THINK you are some incredible shot and you may find yourself on the wrong end of the hunt!
That's like those guys that pay a few thousand dollars to go to Australia and hunt Water Buffalo. IT'S A DAMN COW!!! On the hunting shows, the thing hears the hunter, looks over casually, then BLAM!!! Where's the sport in that?Reminds me of a sign on the side of the road that I saw today when I was driving between Acuna, Mexico and San Antonio on US-90... It said, "Longhorn Trophy Steers"... This is an area where there are a lot of game ranches where people pay money to hunt (possibly exotic) animals on the owners' properties...
So, I'm wondering... Is this guy actually letting people "hunt" his longhorn cattle? As someone who grew up on a ranch, I would have to say that "hunting" cattle really does not sound that challenging... Even the craziest cows that we ever had, you could get within 100 ft or so of them... Most you could get within 30 ft of them...
I don't think it was Freedom's intention to criticize harshly. He was just letting me know that it's ok to aim at the shoulder with the right equipment. I had enough caliber and I was only at about 65-70 yards or so. I was new to pig hunting and had only taken one previously with buckshot and was actually not told about the armor plating until after that second hunt.true they don't have plating but cut the dude some slack in your line.a 325 gr. round doesn't look to under gunned,and bad juju happens everywhere,you don't have to get out in the boonies for that.uhoh!!! i think i hear banjo music,no my mistake and what caliber is that ?.45/70,.44?didn't those guide guns come in .30/30 too