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Post by x101airborne on Jan 24, 2020 20:13:27 GMT -5
Actually did not carry a rifle this evening on purpose. I have killed hogs with handguns a bit, but it was incidental to other work on the ranch and encounters were quite accidental. This evening I decided to hunt with my new Bisley 7 1/2 inch 41 magnum. No hogs came out before light faded out and the sights were too hard to see for an ethical shot. I have two large live traps set for tomorrow and will try to get in the thick brush and stalk a bit before checking the traps. Sometimes if we catch a sow in heat a large boar could hang around in the brush. "It's just like bow hunting... just louder."
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lobo
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Post by lobo on Jan 25, 2020 8:37:34 GMT -5
What load are you using?
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Post by wyo on Jan 25, 2020 13:39:13 GMT -5
I've got an upcoming hog hunt in Feb...firearm of choice for the hunt will be my Turnbull bisley 45 colt. I can't wait! Good luck tomorrow am x101airborne!
Wyo
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Post by sixshot on Jan 25, 2020 14:15:31 GMT -5
Everyone should have the chance to hunt hogs with a six gun at least once in their life, it can be fast & exciting!! Good luck with that 41 magnum.
Dick
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jan 25, 2020 14:21:08 GMT -5
I have taken quite few with handguns, and a bullet that will exit is much preferred to one that won’t, however a FMJ/RN wont cut it either. Some expansion and an exit is perfect, or hit them in the CNS. Then pretty much anything will work.
CNS=central nervous system, spine/brain
Trapr
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 25, 2020 18:33:49 GMT -5
Right now it is a 210 grain XTP over 296 (don't remember the exact charge, but it is in the truck on my label). I did have a 180 pound boar in the trap this morning. Dispatched with a 22 long rifle and butchered out for my Spanish friends. I call it "fertilizing my tamale tree" cause I always get a couple dozen for supplying the meat. They are some of the best people on the planet in my opinion. And their "carnitas y mole"? Make your tongue slap both sides of your face looking for the next bite!
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 25, 2020 18:42:17 GMT -5
I have taken quite few with handguns, and a bullet that will exit is much preferred to one that won’t, however a FMJ/RN wont cut it either. Some expansion and an exit is perfect, or hit them in the CNS. Then pretty much anything will work. CNS=central nervous system, spine/brain Trapr Even with a rifle, I like to center the shoulder on a full broadside shot. My thinking is... and I don't think I am totally right on anything, but... If you are a little high, you break the spine and the front of the lungs. If you are a little low, you take out the heart and break both front legs. A little back and you take out lungs and liver. A little forward and you are centering the neck; a Dead Right There proposition on most any animal. Dead center of the shoulder, top of the heart, both lungs and both shoulders turned to mush. This is just what works for me. I am not saying anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong or right.
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 25, 2020 21:24:54 GMT -5
I've got an upcoming hog hunt in Feb...firearm of choice for the hunt will be my Turnbull bisley 45 colt. I can't wait! Good luck tomorrow am x101airborne! Wyo I do so wish you very much luck. Down here, hogs found in the daylight are SO skittish it isn't funny. I looked with the Thermal sighted rifle till 2300 hours and still didn't see one. This morning when I woke, I saw all kinds of fresh sign.
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Post by 6gunz on Jan 26, 2020 1:38:32 GMT -5
Good luck, We are going in 3 weeks. I like your six-gun choice, I too will be shooting a 41 Bisley. LBT 230gr WFN BHN 13 about 1000fps. My daughter says "oink oink BANG", she loves hog hunting.
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 27, 2020 22:39:39 GMT -5
I wish you and your daughter all the luck in the world! Unfortunately I have been handicapped recently. I cannot work all day, hunt all night and work all day again. I have been staying at the ranch off and on (not where I live) and after about 2230, I have to go check my eyelids for cracks. It is just too hard a life for us (our situation). If I had my ultimate hog hunting fantasy, I would work till noon, be in bed by 1400, sleep till 2100, then hunt like a mad man till dawn. I did that some when I was young. It took one day to prepare, one day to execute, one day to recover. None of it was conducive to handgun hunting. Now it is AR's and thermal or night vision sights to complete the job. I have offered one person from here a chance at a handgun hunt. I have already started doing my level best at setting up the perfect situation. I have been baiting the site, staying out of the area, keeping the cows out, etc. If it does not work out, it will not be because I am inept or incompetent. If they can, I will still take them out on an AR hunt, but a handgun kill may not be possible due to circumstances out of my control. I wish it was hog "killing", but it is still hunting.
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Post by reflex264 on Jan 29, 2020 18:00:52 GMT -5
There are very few things more fun than chasing hogs with a handgun. We are planning a trip right now.
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Post by whitworth on Jan 30, 2020 10:50:38 GMT -5
I've done quite a bit of hog hunting with a handgun and it is really fun! My last hunt for hogs was in North Carolina last August and it was bleeding hot, miserable, got chigger bit and was made a meal of by mosquitoes, and it was a blast! My .460 BFR got the nod on this trip. I shot two, but photobucket isn't cooperating...
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Post by sixshot on Jan 30, 2020 16:07:23 GMT -5
My last one was with my OM 41 shorty & a 230 gr Keith after taking 2 with the knife. Then on the way home I got a couple of Javelina with the same 41 shorty at a Dr. friends place on the Pecos. One of them scared me a little bit & that made me mad!
Dick
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 30, 2020 20:02:03 GMT -5
Max, if you told me you have killed everything from Amoebas to Aircraft with a handgun, I would believe it!!! LOL! Love your shows. And I like that you show when you miss or goof up the shot. Another personality I used to watch would comment "Yep, right in the brain." and the film clearly shows him blowing the bottom jaw off. I would rather hear someone say "I don't know what I did wrong" than to hear some other bullspit. Hats off to you! Waiting on more episodes on Amazon.
Sixshot, congrats on the javelina! Those can be some scary devils!
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Post by jfs on Jan 31, 2020 18:04:51 GMT -5
Used my four inch Taurus tracker in 41 to drop this big boy... Fun fun fun
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