Posted on 06/22/2014 6:03:25 PM PDT by kingattax
I love wild boar hunting. LOVE. IT. It’s relatively cheap, it can be very dangerous and their backstraps are muy tasty. Here’s some good campfire fodder for boar hunters, namely, which are the best guns for dispatching wild swine. Enjoy.
1. Browning BAR ShorTrac Hog Stalker
In 1917 John Moses Browning designed the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), and since it’s killed more enemies of America than just about anything else.
It served our men in every major conflict from World War I to Vietnam, and so sporting versions of it should be all the pig gun American hunters need. But the new BAR—while similar in nature to its combative brother—has undergone major changes to make it ideal in the pig woods.
Browning’s BAR ShorTrac Hog Stalker is a 10-round semi-auto .308 rifle that feels more like your deer rifle than an AR-15.
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A hard cast Keith style semi wadcutter of around 245 grains should do well in the .44 mag.
I have one in 45/.410 and it is a little sweetheart.
Funny thing. When it first came out I thought it one of the most useless trendy guns yet, but I started to do some reading about them and ended up with the stainless version. Wifey can handle this one really well.
The local Wal-Mart has a couple of those but they seem a little expensive especially since they are Taurus or Rossi.
I like to stay around the 250 grain mark, just because the recoil is lighter - but for the larger hogs I find you really need a heavy bullet to do the work. In my 6” barrel 629, the 300+ grains get the job done but the gun does ‘talk’ to you. I also wouldn’t shoot them any more than needed as I’m pretty sure they would loosen the gun up.
“I recommend strongly that Democrats try using those guns to hunt Texas boars.”
Democrats should use the .22LR... Tell them that NRA types buy them by the thousands, so they MUST be one-shot boar stoppers!;)
My north Texas days I took out the swine with my FN-FAL. We would comeup on a herd of 20-30 sometimes and it was the only rifle in the batch with the knockdown and capacity to take them down.
The FN Fal is the one gun I have always wanted and never had.
The HK-91 shoots really smoothly but it just doesn’t have the panache of the FAL
Don't forget the $170k to $265k Helicopter!
Marlin 336 in 35 Rem, 444 Marlin or a 12 gage slug if all else fails. (grin)
Yeah Baybeee! SS Super Blackhawk.
Never read that, or even heard of that story about young Bill Cody, I can only imagine making your way across the wilderness of Nebraska on foot... at night through hostile territory as a boy. Thanks for sharing... minimally as a reminder that the RACIST NFL team name “Redskins” needs prompt changing from to the vastly more appropriate “Bloodthirsty Godless Savages”.
280 Grain LBT Ogival Wadcutters
I’m sure the farmers are VERY happy when those helicopters fly over their lands.
I would dread the maintenance and operations costs... nevermind the purchace price of that aircraft... plus with a cockpit that is all of 3' wide (exterior dimension), I would be wedged into that thing painfully tight.
Interesting story along those lines is at this link:
This is pure horse manure... The much more likely scenario is that he was so nervous he missed the hog completely. When hit in the skull by my .308 the pig goes down like a sack of bricks, and afterward, the skull feels crunchy and deformable through the skin. Scrambled brains inside.
I have killed ~5 with the .308, and about 6 more with a knife (6" blade, good handle). The knife kills were not after being shot, they were hogs that the dogs had stopped and I waited until a dog on the other side had the pig's attention and stabbed it in the heart. One of those nicked my thumb with a tusk, but I ate him for launch instead of the other way around.
Were any of those through the top of the head?
Guess you were there and know better.
.308 Cetma has bagged many hogs around my airpark.
Kid likes to use his Mosin Nagant.
I got that on from a guy that had an incredible collection. The list took up 2 pages on an ExCell Spreadsheet in small font. He listed that one at 98% because he had rotated the cylinder on it once. I put the 1st round down it aside from the factory test shot. He had about 80% of his list marked as NIB and the rest at 98-99%, all in the original boxes complete w/papers and test cases. He had never fired any of them and was the Original Owner.
I picked the 10” figuring if all else fails I can beat the hell outta the offending target with it. Plus it might just make them crap their pants and run or have a heart attack at the sight of it;)
I got a wide range of ammo from 180 - 300 gr for it. I need to get some Special loads for plinking, as Mama don’t like the kick of the big stuff.
One of these days I’m gonna make some grips that are longer than factory ones.
A .308 has almost twice the ft/lb of energy of a 30-30. It’s apples and oranges.
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