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Post by bigmuddy on Sept 24, 2020 22:10:50 GMT -5
Great story! We have hogs in MO but none on my place. I’m just over run with dillos.
7 rounds in a 4” .357 made me think “I hope you had hearing protection“. The noise is the reason I’ve about stopped carrying mine. I do carry ear plugs in my shirt pocket but sometimes hard to get to them in time.
Good job and nice revolver. I have one of those too and it also wears target stocks. Great shooters.
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Post by squawberryman on Sept 25, 2020 10:08:39 GMT -5
Brings me to a question. Only having killed a handful of any kind of pig, here it is. A boar from my experience has a taste and smell I cannot get past. That boar also had LOTS of stress before dying. How, or does, that affect the meat?
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Post by Burnston on Sept 25, 2020 10:31:31 GMT -5
Brings me to a question. Only having killed a handful of any kind of pig, here it is. A boar from my experience has a taste and smell I cannot get past. That boar also had LOTS of stress before dying. How, or does, that affect the meat? [br Valid question. The smell is not always a problem on all boars, though it often is. The adrenaline is the real problem. Most likely this meat will go to bait coyotes or other hogs, but given the agony of his death I did not feel good about leaving the meat out for buzzards. |
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Post by lobo on Sept 25, 2020 16:41:23 GMT -5
Good job.
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Post by sixshot on Sept 25, 2020 18:10:48 GMT -5
Don't want to hi jack so I'll wait until this fine story is played out. Then I'll tell a little story about a run in with a Texas buck about 50 years ago.
Dick
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Post by xgbx on Sept 26, 2020 10:52:50 GMT -5
I understand how you feel about not killing that hog cleanly. Animals deserve the cleanest, quickest death we can give them, but I’m willing to make the occasional exception for hogs.
Once upon a time, I was on a control hunt for feral cattle in a Hawaiian coffee orchard at last light. I hit a large bull high in the lungs with a 30-06. He made it to the treeline as the herd scattered and I managed to drop three others. As I waited for the picking crew to come get the carcasses, I heard the bull screaming as hogs pulled him down. Judging by the sound, they started eating him while he was still alive.
If there is such a thing as a monster, then wild hogs are about as close as I’ve ever seen. I try to kill them cleanly but mostly I just want them dead.
XGBX
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Post by rangersedge on Sept 28, 2020 7:25:18 GMT -5
I grew up on a grain and livestock farm with cattle and hogs. I remember my parents warning us as young kids to be careful of the bulls, cows with young calves, and the hogs. I also remember them telling the story of an old guy who lived not too far away whose partially consumed body was found in his hog lot. No one knew if he had been out there feeding them and had heart attack, died, and was then eaten or if he had tripped, couldn't get up, and was eaten. Either way, his own hogs had eaten most of him when he was found and i've seen / heard too much to ever trust a hog. They do make good bacon though.
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Post by Burnston on Sept 30, 2020 17:00:14 GMT -5
Don't want to hi jack so I'll wait until this fine story is played out. Then I'll tell a little story about a run in with a Texas buck about 50 years ago. Dick What about that Texas buck? |
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Post by bagdadjoe on Oct 1, 2020 8:58:04 GMT -5
One ugly mofo'...glad you got him and not the other way around.
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Post by bearskinner on Oct 8, 2020 18:40:48 GMT -5
Even if the critter goes down instantly with one shot, I always use two. It’s called paying the insurance.
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Post by bigbore5 on Dec 18, 2020 0:26:05 GMT -5
I have killed too many hogs to count running them with dogs, baiting, spotlighting, night vision, and just plain luck. Used rifles, shotguns, even a Randell #5 Bowie I bought myself after Q's 30 years ago. But most have been to handguns with the 357mag killing the most. I loaded it with 110gr hp at max velocity so it would fragment and not exit, hitting a dog. Those were usually REALLY close shots. Like 10 feet or less close. If not chasing the dogs I liked 180 wfn cast from wheel weights, gas checked, and over max loads of 2400. Then when I got out of the Army and bought myself a 44 magnum it became my primary but I don't hunt all the time now like I did as a ranch kid. That 357 blackhawk has taken more game than all my other guns combined. It's still a sure killer and still gets used after my 40 years of ownership
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Post by rjm52 on Dec 18, 2020 6:55:10 GMT -5
Well done....and reminds me of something I read on another forum...
Guy who was into with hogs all the time had gone from a .357 to a .41...when I asked why he said there was nothing wrong with the .357 but with the .41 he only had to shoot them once...
Bob
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Post by x101airborne on Dec 18, 2020 14:12:00 GMT -5
I drowned a sow in a mud wallow once. She bluff charged me and when she turned I grabbed her by the back legs and "danced" her into a mud wallow and sat on her till she quit moving. Only took around 3 minutes but it seemed like 3 days at the time. My brother in law was a witness. He heard all the squealing and me cussing and made the 300 yards to me in about 3 minutes. I was so muddy he made me ride in the back of the truck. Sow was around 140 pounds and I believe was "nesting" getting ready to give birth. It was quite the rodeo!
Another, I was hunting a lone sow at night in a hay patch (night vision). I got in close and wanted a head shot for butchering. I shot, she fell and I walked back to the ranch house and got the truck. When I drove back she was still laying there still. I backed the truck up to her, left my big knife and rifle in the truck. When I grabbed her back leg, THAT THING CAME ALIVE and wanted a big piece of my backside!!! I didn't hit the brain, I hit just behind the eyes and knocked her out and blinded her! I was happy to let her go and get back to the truck but she seemed to know where I was and just kept coming for me every time I let go. I finally got her flat on the ground and cut her throat with a Case Trapper but even with her throat cut she was hanging on to every bit of life and was still wanting to fight. I took quite a few cuts and bruises out of that one.
A previous poster has it right. "Pay the insurance". Ammo aint THAT danged expensive. Even if you hit them with a rifle, put a pistol bullet in the neck from close range. You dont damage the skull for a trophy and the meat is undamaged as well. You haven't lost anything but 40 cents worth of cartridge; but may have saved a hospital bill.
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Post by lazytcross on Dec 18, 2020 15:18:03 GMT -5
Haven’t been part of a hog hunt. But this interests the heck outa me. I carry a 4x handgun all over our ranch and have used it countless times for birds to bovine. Good to have a sturdy side arm when you need it.
I should just be grateful that we don’t deal with hogs up in the frozen north...yet
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Post by messybear on Dec 22, 2020 10:24:39 GMT -5
I’m not at all disappointed that you had to shoot more than once. I would be if you didn’t. Haha.
Now what would have been bad is a single shot something without enough power to do the job.
It seems we get all caught up in the ethics thing but a varmint is a varmint. Wether we trap it club it stomp it knife it drown it run over it choke it let the dog kill it or whatever, the outcome is still the same. Some vermin just needs to be dead and I applaud your actions.
Might sound bad but those of us who live on the land are blessed with stuff that needs to die.
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