Putting down an aggressive hog (400 lbs) doesn’t require a heavy caliber rifle. Check out Youtuber Jim Thomas as he displays excellent markmanship while taking down a 400 pound wild hog. Posted on 11/17/2017 5:24:37 AM PST by w1n1
Putting down an aggressive hog (400 lbs) doesn’t require a heavy caliber rifle. Check out Youtuber Jim Thomas as he displays excellent markmanship while taking down a 400 pound wild hog.
What is surprising is that Jim was using a subsonic .22LR bullet. To be exact he was sporting a suppressed Ruger 10/22 rifle equipped with an ATNX-Sight for night vision. Like a seasoned hunter Jim waited for the hogs to show and loitering at the bait area.
From 50 yards away Jim spots the big hog among others that had been giving them problems on his property in the past. With great skills Jim puts a .22 round into the temple of the hog and puts it down on the spot. See the 22LR subsonic vs 400 lb hog video here.
Thank you for a detailed analysis/opinion. I am learning a lot. Never been “pig hunting” (lol).
I’ve killed and processed many deer, however. I have had a couple “pretty gamey” deer. But they have come from the same area in Indiana. Then I have had a few deer that were VERY good eating. The best eating deer I have had come from farming areas as opposed to the deer I have taken from heavily wooded and hilly areas. The farm deer (all White Tail) in the northern part of Indiana generally have a lighter brown coat. I have killed 2 doe with fat roles in them. In the southern part of the state, the deer seem generally taller, skinnier and grey. Fat, young, light brown does are delicious! Old, skinny, grey, trophy bucks make for great mounts and bragging rights, but often taste like dog food.
All I want for Christmas is a bucket of 22LR.
Well, maybe a couple boxes of 357.
And some 9mmm.. and..
“I assume wild/feral hogs are as good to eat as farm pigs, right?”
I’ve heard they’re not. But that’s just what I’ve been told...don’t know from experience. If they were, I’m guessing people would be hunting them all the time in Kentucky—since it’s open season 24-7 on wild hogs.
Shot placement is the key. A shot elsewhere could have just pi$$ed him off!
Well you also don’t want to eat the 400 pounders. The little 45 pound ones are mighty tasty. :-)
I took down a big sow with a .223.
Put the round in her ear.
Dropped like a sack of potatoes.
Excellent shooting.
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Only after proper treatment: several soaks of the meat in a rock salt/ice bath...
The only wild hog I’ve eaten was one from SE Ga coastal area. Had been feeding on acorns and was delicious.
While I have no doubt that a properly-placed .22LR bullet can take down a large boar, why not carry a rifle of proper caliber to do the job? I certainly wouldn’t recommend this activity. I get that wild boar are vermin but a hunter should respect his quarry enough not to deliberately use a gun which has a high possibility of inflicting a wounding but not killing shot. As Robert Ruark preached use enough gun. This advice not only protects the humans when dealing with potentially dangerous game but also to deliver a clean killing shot with reasonable assurance which is the responsibility of any hunter.
And there ya go.
Lots of corn, alfalfa, even bluegrass...soy beans, etc.
Just like a grain-fed cow.
Would you raise your eventual freezer-filling cow on acorns, gallberry, wild browse, etc and expect it to be the mouth-watering steak you're looking for?
I wouldn't.
And you're right about the trophy deer versus the young does.
I don't generally care that much for venison, but if I can get a backstrap from a young doe, I'll go for it every time.
As for feral hogs...they will eat anything...and I do mean ANYTHING.
Alive, dead, whatever...if they can get their mouth around it, it's food.
Even to each other and dead human bodies, road-kill dogs, you name it.
Kinda makes me think twice after we've killed one.
We do leave a lot out in the field to just rot.
Ain't nobody gonna eat that nasty bastard, except the buzzards and another hog.
Feral hogs are a huge problem in most of the southern states and spreading widely into upper states, in spite of the cold.
They do a lot of damage to crops, irrigation systems, terraced areas, you name it, they root around anything and are strong enough to pull light chicken fencing down.
I've had them pull so-called "hog wire" down.
They don't like barbed wire a lot, but will go through it if necessary.
I've stopped them with direct wired electric fences...as in a straight 120 current rather than a stepped-down agricultural charger.
Stops them DEAD in some cases, but not selective enough to use very much.
I have horses in pasture and they don't know the difference.
A feral hog will actually follow a horse around to get the droppings and once they've consumed what they can root out, they keep on rooting and make holes that turn into washes and dead grass spots.
So eat 'em if you want, but kill every one you see.
other than half of them are boars, and stinks like hell when you cook it, so it has to be outside grilled pork.
lol
The shot went over his brain. A line through the mouth right over the lower teeth should get your there.
The shot went over his brain. A line through the mouth right over the lower teeth should get your there.
When my brother-in-law was a fresh out of the academy police officer him and his training officer were called by a man with a cow that was wild in his back pasture and out of control. The back yard area was huge and fenced in and grown up with cow trails all through it and you couldn’t really see any movement at all. This one particular cow was causing him problems and he wanted it put down so he called the cops. This happened in the early 1980’s so lots of revolvers still in use.
My BIL and the other officer showed up at the residence and the guy told them, I need this cow put down and I will take care of the rest. The training officer told my BIL you walk through the trails and herd him towards me and I will shoot him in the head. My BIL was like okay, but you better make sure you shoot the cow and not me! Off he goes and he gets the nuisance cow moving down the correct trail and he drops off and backs away. The cow comes straight at the training officer and he cuts loose with his .41 Magnum JHP round between the eyes of the cow. The cow staggers like it has been walloped with a baseball bat then goes bezerk and stampedes the fence down and takes off into the this rural area of the city. The bullet hit the cow and just bounced off.
Eventually the owner of the cow tracked him down and a homeowner put it down with a .12 gauge.
The bullet hit the cow and just bounced off.
You have to know where to aim. Between the eyes is far from a certain shot.
Draw a line between the ear opening and the eye. Pick the center of that line. Imagine a line going from that point to a similar point on the the other side.
Aim for the center of the line going through the skull.
Then you will hit the brain.
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