Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Discuss all of the great hunting opportunities in Minnesota

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Holland&Holland on Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:32 pm

Randygmn wrote:
crbutler wrote:What an embarrassment.

Hit a pig in the right spot with a .300 Blk or heck, with a good hunting bullet .223 and you have a dead pig. (-and I’m a guy who prefers bigger stuff myself...)

I’m no great shakes with a rifle, unlike guys like Erud but I have gone into herds of Cape buffalo with just a double barrel gun. The danger from pigs is greatly overstated. I’ve done buffalo, bears, cats, pachyderms all with bolt guns and double barreled guns... you don’t need more bullets...just put them in the right place.

There is only one reason to use a semi auto on pigs... because you WANT to.


I’ll make this clarification. There’s a significant difference between hunting pigs and eradicating them. Harvesting “A” hog doesn’t require a semi auto. Liquidating an entire sounder of those feral, invasive and destructive pigs, does.


So you are saying you don't know how to run a bolt gun then?
User avatar
Holland&Holland
 
Posts: 12478 [View]
Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:17 am

Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby INOR on Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:38 am

That was gnarly. Not in a good way. But think about deer season too. How many times have you heard a guy completely unloading his rifle or shotgun at a deer? And only stopping because they’ve reached their mag or tube limit? So many *********** hunt that don’t have respect for the animal they’re hunting let alone the people that may be out there hunting with them.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
INOR
 
Posts: 1304 [View]
Joined: Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:12 pm

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Randygmn on Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:55 am

Holland&Holland wrote:
Randygmn wrote:
crbutler wrote:What an embarrassment.

Hit a pig in the right spot with a .300 Blk or heck, with a good hunting bullet .223 and you have a dead pig. (-and I’m a guy who prefers bigger stuff myself...)

I’m no great shakes with a rifle, unlike guys like Erud but I have gone into herds of Cape buffalo with just a double barrel gun. The danger from pigs is greatly overstated. I’ve done buffalo, bears, cats, pachyderms all with bolt guns and double barreled guns... you don’t need more bullets...just put them in the right place.

There is only one reason to use a semi auto on pigs... because you WANT to.


I’ll make this clarification. There’s a significant difference between hunting pigs and eradicating them. Harvesting “A” hog doesn’t require a semi auto. Liquidating an entire sounder of those feral, invasive and destructive pigs, does.


So you are saying you don't know how to run a bolt gun then?


I take great pride in not owning any bolt action rifles (or revolvers, for that matter). I’m strictly semi auto.
Randygmn
 
Posts: 901 [View]
Joined: Sun Dec 15, 2013 3:52 pm

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Ghost on Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:13 am

Franz Albrecht says “don’t need no stinkin’ semi auto”
User avatar
Ghost
 
Posts: 8246 [View]
Joined: Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:49 pm

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby crbutler on Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:00 pm

Given what I’ve seen in Texas, even with a semiauto you will not eradicate a sounder of feral hogs.

You might get 2 or 3 in most places. Any pressure at all and they get in thick stuff and disappear in a second or two once you start shooting.

If a semiauto eradicated pigs, they wouldn’t have the issues they do.

The only way to eradicate is poison. -and the bykill guarantees they won’t be able to use that much.

You might control numbers a bit with shooting... but the way most ranchers treat hunting/shooting pigs, it’s a cash crop. (Meaning the trespass fees and the trophy fees most seem to want.)

Helicopter shooting and night shooting don’t kill that many, mostly it convinces the rest to move elsewhere.
crbutler
 
Posts: 1649 [View]
Joined: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:29 pm

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Oct 01, 2018 7:43 am

crbutler wrote:Given what I’ve seen in Texas, even with a semiauto you will not eradicate a sounder of feral hogs.

You might get 2 or 3 in most places. Any pressure at all and they get in thick stuff and disappear in a second or two once you start shooting.

If a semiauto eradicated pigs, they wouldn’t have the issues they do.

The only way to eradicate is poison. -and the bykill guarantees they won’t be able to use that much.

You might control numbers a bit with shooting... but the way most ranchers treat hunting/shooting pigs, it’s a cash crop. (Meaning the trespass fees and the trophy fees most seem to want.)

Helicopter shooting and night shooting don’t kill that many, mostly it convinces the rest to move elsewhere.


Helicopter shooting with a mini-gun, now there is something for the forum to argue about the ethics of :hmm:
User avatar
Holland&Holland
 
Posts: 12478 [View]
Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:17 am

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Ironbear on Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:08 am

Holland&Holland wrote:Helicopter shooting with a mini-gun, now there is something for the forum to argue about the ethics of :hmm:

Old school thinking... how about thermal imaging, auto-aiming, app-enabled drones? You wouldn't want to make people look up from their phones, would you? Or leave their mama's basement?
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” ~Blaise Pascal~
User avatar
Ironbear
 
Posts: 2178 [View]
Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:38 pm
Location: A nondescript planet in the Milky Way galaxy

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:19 am

Ironbear wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:Helicopter shooting with a mini-gun, now there is something for the forum to argue about the ethics of :hmm:

Old school thinking... how about thermal imaging, auto-aiming, app-enabled drones? You wouldn't want to make people look up from their phones, would you? Or leave their mama's basement?


Did someone say Hellfire missiles?
User avatar
Holland&Holland
 
Posts: 12478 [View]
Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:17 am

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby OldmanFCSA on Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:39 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:
Ironbear wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:Helicopter shooting with a mini-gun, now there is something for the forum to argue about the ethics of :hmm:

Old school thinking... how about thermal imaging, auto-aiming, app-enabled drones? You wouldn't want to make people look up from their phones, would you? Or leave their mama's basement?


Did someone say Hellfire missiles?


Back to Tannerite process stated earlier.
OldmanFCSA
 
Posts: 3216 [View]
Joined: Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:55 pm
Location: Osceola, WI.

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Rip Van Winkle on Mon Oct 01, 2018 2:56 pm

There's always the old Mountain Howitzer.

Image

http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm
Works for deer, should work on pigs.
I will never apologize for being an American.
Post 435 Gun Club
North Star Rifle Club
cmpofficer@post435gunclub.org
48 down, Still in the hunt for a heavy!
President's Hundred (#48 2018)
Certified NRA RSO
User avatar
Rip Van Winkle
 
Posts: 4165 [View]
Joined: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:04 pm
Location: Unfashionable end of the western spiral arm, Galaxy Milky Way

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:03 pm

Rip Van Winkle wrote:There's always the old Mountain Howitzer.

Image

http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm
Works for deer, should work on pigs.


Looks a little on the heavy side to be drone mounted.
User avatar
Holland&Holland
 
Posts: 12478 [View]
Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:17 am

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Ghost on Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:10 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:
Rip Van Winkle wrote:There's always the old Mountain Howitzer.

Image

http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm
Works for deer, should work on pigs.


Looks a little on the heavy side to be drone mounted.

Depends on the size of the drone
User avatar
Ghost
 
Posts: 8246 [View]
Joined: Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:49 pm

Re: Feral Hog Hunting -- Special "Boar" "Hog" "Razorback" ammo.

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:26 pm

That is true.
User avatar
Holland&Holland
 
Posts: 12478 [View]
Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:17 am

Previous

Return to Hunting

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests

cron