Posted on 06/12/2019 4:36:22 PM PDT by marktwain
Lots of free meals.
That's why I ax. Thanks for the information... just in case I need something new to do this autumn.
.280 Remington, maybe?
That’s awesome. Got a lot of little tasty porkers with it that time.
Having to pay land owners’ exorbitant access fees to hunt pigs is the roadblock to eradicating the pests. Doesn’t help that so many hunters would damage property or leave a mess if they had access.
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You’ve got FRmail.
Your 280REM should be quite suitable.
Yours, TMN78247
CHUCKLE.
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Fwiw,
The lady out of OK that traps/transports pigs off of our farm is doing exactly that.
(Every quarter she sends a check as our “cut” to my kid sister, who now manages the farm.)
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I have killed several with a .22 and a 9mm carbine. Shot placement is key.
Certainly HITTING your target with a .22LR is FAR superior to a MISS with a 105mm howitzer.
Nonetheless, I personally wouldn’t use anything less than a .357 MAG & then only at close range.
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Average 20-30 yards from a tree stand over a box of strawberry jello.
Hit them in the ear with the rimfire. I have double lunged them with the 9 at 50 yards using a fmj.
Thanks. I have no personal experience in that regard, and I’ve read where some say magnum only...
Fwiw, I went to a service club banquet this evening & over dinner one of the members started talking about his “adventures in feral hog shooting” in Kerr County, TX.
(His best “one day take” was 18 hogs/pigs of various sizes/ages.- He said that 4 of the smaller pigs were dressed/frozen for BBQ & the rest will be ground into sausage filling or made into dog food.)
He said that his “weapon of choice” is a European bolt-action built on a Mauser Model 96 receiver in 7x57mm.
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Btw, I forgot to add that “Tom’s pet hand-load” for hogs is a 170 grain GCCB (made of wheel-weights) in front of 31 grains of IMR 4895 for about 2100FPS.
Tom says that that long/slim GCCB usually “passes through” the hog’s thorax from most any angle.
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I’m surprised the rancher doesn’t kill them.
Seems sort of stupid just to keep catching the same ones over and over again!
(That IS pretty clever and amazing!)
That sounds like a blast.
I haven’t yet peeked at my Speer manual, but that sounds like a reasonably/moderate hot load for the 7x57. Thanks for the useful information...
Fyi, I regard any load for the 170 grain bullet for 7x57mm that’s over about 2300FPS as HOT. = Tom says that his “pet load” is FINE in his pre-WWII Mauser “sporter” & that he’s getting about 8-10 reloads from each case, so it’s (imo) not excessive for a rifle in good shape.
Further, for over 15 years I shot/hunted with a Spanish “scorpion” Model of 1893 “long rifle”, which is considered to be considerably weaker than the Swedish/Finnish Model of 1896 & using a quite similar GCCB/JSP bullet. = I never had a single problem with my 1893, though I only paid 10 bucks for it from GIANT DISCOUNT CENTER (Longview, TX) in 1966.
(In those long ago days, it was common to pull the FMJ bullet & replace the FMJ with a “hunting bullet” for deer/elk/etc. Other/smaller critters were collected with the FMJ ammo.- Boxes of 20 rounds of “surplus service ammo” were a BUCK or sometimes less each, “back when dinosaurs roamed the Planet”. = A nickel each was pretty cheap hunting even then.)
Note: I remember one afternoon, when I was a “poverty-stricken” grad student at Tulane taking a pair of “good-sized” hogs for the freezer with the Mauser/FMJ ammo & they fell like being hit with a hammer between the eyes.
Yours, TMN78247
That makes sense. 170 is kinda heavy for a 7mm.
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