Posted on 09/11/2019 4:59:00 AM PDT by w1n1
A friend of mine has feral hogs running around on his ranch.It’s a big problem. He has hog traps scattered across the property and uses Big Red soda as bait. The high iron count in a hogs blood means blood will clot quicker. If the first shot isn’t a kill shot, all that happens is you piss the hog off.
… that’s why automatic weapons are needed on the farm!
I wonder if Warfarin mixed in the soda would help bleed them out.
It’s difficult to catch a glimpse of a European boar in NC unless one one is hunting.
.45-70 is my round of choice. Not a whole lot of range, but the 375 grain hard cast slug at 2300 fps I use has never not put one down within 50’ of where I hit it. Just a big red cloud behind it and that’s all she wrote. I see people hunting them with 5.56 rounds and just shake my head, I’d rather use something that’s an overkill to something that’s merely adequate myself.
Hunting these critters in Missouri is discouraged by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
The agency says shooting one just spreads the pack. It’s better to trap entire families and MDC will do it for free.
My dad recalled to me that his father and others connected to the family would mount up on horses, rifles carried by servants, and head out to hunt boar with dogs. They’d come back with a boar, occasionally minus a servant and some dogs. WWII put an end to that.
Here in Culpeper county,Virginia, feral hogs are a problem to crops and a potential tragedy to humans, waiting to happen. I believe they can be hunted anytime, on Sundays, without license, day or night, with a night scope.
I seldom hunt European boar with 12 ga semi-auto. Had a couple of close calls but never actually wounded. I am more a cat person and don’t have dogs.
I shot one last night.
Prohibited on lands owned. leased or managed ( read all US forest service/Mark Twain NF lands).
Can kill them on your own lands or on other private lands.
In Georgia its open season 24/7. We are loaded with pigs.
There are some feral hogs in this area. In our younger days my husband and a friend of his would rope (from horseback, very tricky) the baby boars and castrate them and turn them loose. Then after they grew he would rope one or two he castrated as a baby and we would pen up at the house and feed it good feed for about 45 days and we would butcher. That was the best pork, far better than what you can just buy at the grocer.
This time of the year I always think about that because as Fall would be on the way we would have a pig or two at the house feeding it out.
We had beef, pork, and deer after deer season. I grew a huge garden every year. It was a lot of work but we sure ate good.
Since today is 9/11 I will point out that muslims are alot like wild pigs except not as smart or brave.
I wonder how boar spears would work against Antifa goons? Available on eBay.
Just the sight of all that cold steel might give them pause.
Of course the po-po would not approve.
Might work well but it depends on exact goons. Wouldn’t want to bring it to a gunfight.
Before they used dogs they used beaters.
I wouldn’t rate big boar as more dangerous than a brown bear.
Given a chance above average boar would tear you apart true but my impression is they aren’t very smart and somehow challenged in terms of eyesight.
If a boar decides to attack you he tries to figure out where you are and then charges in a straight line. It is fast but move a couple feet aside from the line and it passes by and then stops to think out what to do next. Guess you know what to do at this point. They aren’t really as tough as well. A 12 ga slug center-mass incapacitates ever the largest ones.
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