Posted on 09/18/2017 8:03:35 AM PDT by w1n1
This shooting display by an expert marksman who takes out a herd of wild boar one by one while on the run will blow your mind. Franz-Albrecht Oettingen of Spielberg, Germany, puts on an impressive display of marksmanship in a series of filmed hunts. Here is what Franz is sporting, a Merkel Helix Custom 7×64 with an Aimpoint hunter sight and RWS Mantel 11.2g rounds. With great equipment, he takes each and every boar moving in a line, one by one as they come into view.
While shooting, the speed in which he recovers with the bolt action is lightning fast, and he’s already focused on predicting the movement of his next target, while confirming the kills of his previous shots to make sure he doesn’t need to fire an additional round to end their suffering. One shot, one kill is made on each target and he never once misses a target.
Oettingen also uses a Merkel Helix Explorer 300WM with an Aimpoint CompC3 sight and RWS Silver Selection Evolution 11.9g rounds. As he lays to waste boar running in all different directions as they cross a road, he waits patiently for the perfect shots in the trees, avoiding obstacles disrupting his firing lines and timing his shots when the boar reach cleared areas within the woods. (good preparation)
An ethical hunting display concludes the video as a family of black bears approach the ridge where he’s hunting boar. While the adult female crests the ridge first, he waits to confirm whether or not it has cubs, while steadying his rifle. Once the adult female is confirmed as the mother of two cubs, he refrains from shooting and yells with a fury to intimidate the bears into a fast retreat. See the full boar hunt video here.
Is john f’n kohn-heinz-kerry alright? Every time I’ve heard him I was bored to the point of tears.
He is a steady and excellent shot.
An M-60 would work better.
Do they taste good?
A herd of bores? he’s gonna shoot up The View???
Generally not, stringy, tough, gamey. If you go in knowing that and prepare it correctly it can make decent barbecue. Smoked low and slow like any “difficult” cut of meat, seasoned to get around the gaminess.
The little ones are supposed to, the older ones, not so much.
The only one I managed to shoot, I got lucky and it turned and ran straight away from me. 45-70 cored it lengthwise from back to front.
(Apparently, my lead angle calculations are lacking)
Meat mallet might work if you are planning on throwing it into a crockpot or something, not sure how you’d work around the gaminess though.
Were they eaten or left to rot?
If this were Florida or Texas and wild and/or feral hogs were doing damage or can see taking out the herd. But this appears to be strictly European wild boar sport shooting and a bit ‘piggish’ to take more than 1 or 2.
So you think Lee Harvey had an accomplice in the grassy knoll, eh?
We have feral hogs on our ranch. They do damage. I’ve never been able to take down more than one at a time. I’m not that good.
they can taste good from what I’ve heard- BUT make absolutely sure you cook it to 165 or above somewhat as wild bore still carries trichinosis- domestic bores not so much these days- and the FDA lowered the temp cooking recomended temp to 145 a few years ago as domestic pigs are ‘almost free from trichinosis’ due to strict feeding procedures- (although I still am a little leery but to set your mind at ease- that temp is the ‘instant kill temp’ meaning you only need to get it to that temp for 1 second- if you use a method of cooking (like Sous Vide) that can keep it at that temp or lower temps for minutes on end- then the meat will be safe So i feel pretty safe eating domestic pork at 145 when cooked sous vide and cooked for say 15 minutes at that temp once it reaches that temp- (I usually cook it for an hour at that temp- so it’s overkill really-)
I was with a Seal Team Six member on a hunt at California’s famous Tejon ranch. He got a great shot off at only 150 yards but the thing still took off running like it was nothing. He nailed him on the run, with the second round. I was disappointed to learn that they’re not good eating.
Wait... Was this in Europe?
Because I don’t think Black bears live in Europe—just North America. European bears are brown.
I shoot them on our ranch. Guy I know down the road always comes and gets it when I call him. He likes them. Me.....I buy bacon and ham in town at local IGA. If they quit selling food or I run out of monry I guess it would be different.
The hogs my sister and brother n law were taking down in Texas were humongous nasty animals. The land owner told them they were not good to eat. They were left out there to rot.
Sausage maybe?
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