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Hunting wild boars

Postby Stugotz on Sat Sep 24, 2022 6:36 am

Speed is Fine, Accuracy is final....but accurate hits at extremely high speed is final much faster.
I don't think you understand, these boys killed my dog!
Taking the gun off safe increases the velocity by 100%
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby crbutler on Sat Sep 24, 2022 3:06 pm

To try and conflate hunting with the legality of owning a particular kind of rifle is nonsense.

Plus a true wild boar (not feral pig) is big enough that a .223 class round is inadequate.

The Europeans have been hunting them with single shots for decades.

While I support owning AR 15’s, the hunting of wild pigs has nothing to do with it.
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby Holland&Holland on Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:52 pm

crbutler wrote:To try and conflate hunting with the legality of owning a particular kind of rifle is nonsense.

Plus a true wild boar (not feral pig) is big enough that a .223 class round is inadequate.

The Europeans have been hunting them with single shots for decades.

While I support owning AR 15’s, the hunting of wild pigs has nothing to do with it.


Arn't most wild boars in the US feral pigs?
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby crbutler on Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:36 pm

Yep.
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby Lumpy on Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:52 pm

In the southwest you might see peccaries aka. javelina.
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby crbutler on Mon Sep 26, 2022 2:52 pm

Peccary/Javelina are not wild boar…

You need a hunting license for javelina.
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:40 pm

crbutler wrote:To try and conflate hunting with the legality of owning a particular kind of rifle is nonsense.

Plus a true wild boar (not feral pig) is big enough that a .223 class round is inadequate.

The Europeans have been hunting them with single shots for decades.

While I support owning AR 15’s, the hunting of wild pigs has nothing to do with it.

To be fair he does refer to them as feral pigs in the video.
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby Sorcerer on Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:45 pm

Isn’t 223 legal for deer hunting in Minnesota? I’ve also seen ARs chambered in 308 and other caliber’s. Many of the videos I’ve watched on pig hunts the AR platform is used. The larger capacity magazine seems like the ideal tool. Remember the antis are it seems equating hunting rifles all the time. Referencing single shot hunting in Europe doesn’t work for when your attempting to eradicate an entire herd.
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Re: Hunting wild boars

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:49 pm

Sorcerer wrote:Isn’t 223 legal for deer hunting in Minnesota? I’ve also seen ARs chambered in 308 and other caliber’s. Many of the videos I’ve watched on pig hunts the AR platform is used. The larger capacity magazine seems like the ideal tool. Remember the antis are it seems equating hunting rifles all the time. Referencing single shot hunting in Europe doesn’t work for when your attempting to eradicate an entire herd.

.25 acp is legal for deer hunting in Minnesota, but I agree with your point.

ARs can be had in calibers that would take anything but maybe dangerous game and even that can be debated.
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