Posted on 10/18/2020 4:44:57 AM PDT by marktwain
From a distance, it looked like some garbage had blown into Neal Andrus’ corral on County Line Road in Jefferson County on a recent afternoon. When Andrus went to retrieve it, he found it wasn’t garbage at all but a large, black hog sleeping in the sun.
It didn’t look like any domestic hog he’d ever seen.
“Every indication told me it was a feral hog with its long snout, short tusks and course hair that stood up all along its back,” Andrus said.
Andrus’ approach startled the hog, which darted past him and into an irrigation canal and across the highway that divides Bonneville and Jefferson counties. Andrus alerted his closest neighbor that the animal was headed his way and then called the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, which contacted another neighbor who raises domestic hogs. All domestic hogs were accounted for.
At about dusk, the hog disappeared into some tall overgrowth along a canal and wasn’t an easy target for the deputy. When Andrus maneuvered around the hog to push it back to the deputy, it turned and charged Andrus from about 20 feet. Andrus shot and killed it.
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No limit here in Georgia. Open season 365, 24 hours a day plus you can use a high beam light at night
They make some pretty stout loads for the 357 especially in a Blackhawk frame. Buffalo Bore makes a 180 grain hard cast lead that’s moving about 1400 fps and pushing 800 ftlbs energy. I’d have no problem taking a hog with that combination. You have to have penetration to get through the tough hide of a hog, the shoulder shields are even tougher. If in doubt on a hog and if the shot is available shoot them in the head.
Shot 2 on the back hill last week.
My farmer neighbors are always killing 300 pound hogs. They have killed as many as 33 in a pack in one night (most are smaller) in their fields. They will pull the cotton plants out of the ground in a row and eat the roots. My friends all have night vision scopes, typically about $3,800.00. A pack of hogs will take out an acre in a night. I am always seeing roadkill hogs around here, and saw about a 200 pounder yesterday going to breakfast.
I asked why they didn’t dress and eat them and they just laughed. They leave them in the field and let the buzzards and predators take care of it.
Good grief. What a wimp of a man. Cancel his man card immediately. He called the LE?!?
Wild hogs keep many freezers full in this neighborhood.
Not a Javelina that wandered very far from home?
Agreed.
We have smallish bears and coyotes who constitute the more unexpected daylight encounters. .45 ACP Hornady FMJs are fine.
But yeah. Hogs are hard to kill. We hunt them at night with nothing less than 308 hog loads.
That would work on a small 150lb hog, but not on some of the ones I see around here unless you hit him square in the head. A big male boar has some pretty thick and tough shoulder plates, and it's a long way to the vitals.
In all honesty, I never imagined that wild, feral hogs were anywhere outside of Texas. And in Idaho? Call me shocked.
Plus the fact that after he identified it as a feral hog he walked up to it and woke it. He was lucky it didn't slice open his leg when it passed by.
In GA it’s shoot on sight 24/7 365.
Agreed. In the daylight I need to be more concerned with bears (not that big here) and coyote. Never had a hog encounter in the daylight. The .45 is good for those daylight moments.
You are right about the big boars. And few people know how FAST they are til you see it for yourself.
The AR 10 is good for hogs, but my experience is that you don’t get a second shot. They scatter fast. The advantage of using an AR 10 is that you can easily mount lights, bipod and scope. Not all bolt guns make that easy.
And you don’t need a high dollar AR 10/precision rifle for hogs. All my shots have been 100 yards and less since it’s night time with a predator light, from a stand. Off the shelf Bushmaster in 7.62 works just fine.
I did buy a better stock with an adjustable cheek rest.
Off topic but this sentence reminded me of a sign for a restaurant in a town near where I grew up..."Come on in! Full Coarse Meals!"
I agree with you completely, but I can’t justify a good night vision scope that I would use sparingly to say the least....
This book will teach you about the various wild hogs. stilyard, Razorback, Sawback, Clawfoot, and many others.
THREE YEARS IN ARKANSAW by Marion Hughes. Cover illustration is a Sawback.
You can find tons of videos on YouTube about hog hunting especially at night...
If I had a unlimited sum of money, I would go to Texas, they have companies that will strap you into a helicopter and fly you above the hogs and you can shoot them while running..it looks like a lot of fun....
I don’t use a night vision scope, and if I did it would be a Gen III or better, but those require serious money. *IF* I got a “night vision scope” I would only get one that does not require an IR illuminator or a smart phone/ video display. True IR stealth or not at all. OPFOR might see any IR illuminators ... ‘We’ aren’t the only ones who might think they own the night.
I use a green or red Predator light and a 50 mm Nikon on 4 X magnification. Works great. Plus that scope is great for daytime and low light shots. The Predator light is for coyotes and hogs only.
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