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Post by x101airborne on Feb 26, 2020 9:57:57 GMT -5
Well, a couple things that make this more safe than it seems... 1. No one but me uses this rifle. NO ONE. 2. If you don't want to fire the second round, hold the trigger to the rear, pull the charging handle back half way and release the trigger. It will reset with the bolt holding the hammer down. Release the bolt and return the weapon to "safe". 3. The 300 Blackout with the suppressor is so steady during recoil I have literally had both bullets about 2 inches apart at the ranges I shoot hogs at.
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Post by sixshot on Feb 26, 2020 18:28:21 GMT -5
Good for you 101, I could never get use to that, I'm afraid I'd have ammo going all over the place. That would take a lot of practice & obviously you've done your homework! Shooting those portable pork chops would sure be a hoot though but myself, I would have to stick with a conventional trigger & take my chances.
Dick
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Post by bushog on Feb 26, 2020 20:31:30 GMT -5
Fowler, you are correct, hogs will eat most anything, including other hogs. I was deer hunting in a stand in FL long ago and had several doe tags. Shot one and stayed in the tree as she took a bound into the palmetto and crashed. I heard her go down. Shot several more and at dark went a lookin' for the first one. No deer.... Found her about 100yds farther into the swamp with the top of her head munched on. To get at the brain I guess. Finding her in the dark like that and taking big piggy's dinner away was a little nerve racking. I think I was 12 or 13YO.
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Post by x101airborne on Feb 27, 2020 9:09:22 GMT -5
Just my opinion and that is all, I think they go to the blood for the salt and iron in it first. They aren't so much into the meat for protein as they are the blood for salt and iron. So wherever an animal is bleeding, that is where they start eating.
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Post by junebug on Feb 27, 2020 9:58:20 GMT -5
Hogs will pretty much eat anything. Growing up we had our hogs running on about a 5 acre field. We would take old groundhogs and drop them in the hog lot. The old sows would fight over the corpses,tearing them in half and devouring them. A big old sow can make you jump a 5 ft fence you thought you couldn't possibly jump.
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Post by willicd on Feb 27, 2020 16:31:06 GMT -5
Hogs will pretty much eat anything. Growing up we had our hogs running on about a 5 acre field. We would take old groundhogs and drop them in the hog lot. The old sows would fight over the corpses,tearing them in half and devouring them. A big old sow can make you jump a 5 ft fence you thought you couldn't possibly jump. When I was young, everything I shot with my pellet gun went to the hogs. They will definitely eat birds, squirrel, and rabbits!
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Post by joeb4065 on Mar 12, 2020 0:02:54 GMT -5
Shot a spike that ran into the thick stuff here in SE Texas. Almost dark, left my rifle in the blind. And went to retrieve said spike, carrying only the 45 vaquero. Carrying (THE BEAST), 45 colt 4” octagon Bisley, I’m not scared of the devil himself. Crappy flashlight, light fading...following a nice blood trail, deeper and deeper into the thick. Jumped over, only waist high holes in the thicket, flash light is fading fast. Hear grunting off to the right, no prob...have the beast, right??? A few more steps, can barely make out the blood spray now, hear grunts off to the left. See flickers of black animals moving through the brush ahead. Pucker is in full mode...see a hogs out 30 ft off through the thick, snap off a 45 colt at him, doubt I connected. But made him move further away.
See the spike on the ground, grab a horn and get the heck out of there. Wish I had been toting the 308 AR. Still would have been puckered.
My bet is that the blood smell had em fired up.
Lesson going forward...handgun hunter, but there are times it would be prudent to have heavy firepower in some situations.
JoeB
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Post by bula on Mar 12, 2020 7:39:28 GMT -5
And more than 1 light source..?
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Post by bigbrowndog on Mar 12, 2020 10:27:43 GMT -5
I’d have no issues with your current choice, other than another light source. Many a time I’ve been hands and knees in S.Texas brush with my shorty 45 colt or 500L following a blood trail.
Trapr
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Post by jfs on Mar 12, 2020 13:38:57 GMT -5
Just my opinion and that is all, I think they go to the blood for the salt and iron in it first. They aren't so much into the meat for protein as they are the blood for salt and iron. So wherever an animal is bleeding, that is where they start eating. A sight I`ll never forget was seeing, for the first time, a large boar with his snout covered in blood.... Since then I`ve seen them eating on gut piles a number of times... That`s a photo of my heart shot Shiras bull for reference...
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Post by bamagreg on Mar 12, 2020 14:37:43 GMT -5
Oh really! That sounds fun! Sounds incredibly dangerous to me. How do you not fire the second round if you don't want to? One tiny brain lapse and something very bad happens! I think every shot is a double.
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 12, 2020 17:08:04 GMT -5
Sounds incredibly dangerous to me. How do you not fire the second round if you don't want to? One tiny brain lapse and something very bad happens! I think every shot is a double. It is not. I assure you. You do have a learning curve with it though.
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