You say gophers are a problem? Let's put wild pigs in our sights too!
- Thread starter Mobular
- Start date
They are mostly active at night and they do taste nice, I went on a wild boar hunt when i was a wee lad near Bali, Indonesia these suckers move in herds and we would form a firing line from 150-175 yrds, shine our spot light and fire away. the smallest range from 90KG to a monstrous 165KG. The meat is freakin awesome one of the best tasting pork I've ever tasted.
If you search a bit there are vids of people doing that with FA and suppressed. Don't think it gets much better than THAT!
Check out a youtube documentary called "Pig Bomb" They have a SERIOUS problem down south.
I lived in France and Italy for 40 years
and I have a active of +- 100 boars in my record..........while fun to hunt and good to eat
rememer that in whatever territory they settle everything else disappears or dies
they eat everything that is in the ground..
.all the eggs, fawns,rabbits partridge nests everything disappears
think of it all bears deers moose rabbits partridges turkeys GONE
entire régions have been cleared of all wild life
and I have a active of +- 100 boars in my record..........while fun to hunt and good to eat
rememer that in whatever territory they settle everything else disappears or dies
they eat everything that is in the ground..
.all the eggs, fawns,rabbits partridge nests everything disappears
think of it all bears deers moose rabbits partridges turkeys GONE
entire régions have been cleared of all wild life
Ditchdogger
CGN frequent flyer
If you search a bit there are vids of people doing that with FA and suppressed. Don't think it gets much better than THAT!
I was thinking a mini gun or a couple of belt feds on the copter so the pilot could have some fun too.
- Location
- On the edge of an "Inland Sea"
I hunted wild pig down in Alabama a few years ago.
AR 10, suppressor and 168gr hand loads
Used ATN Gen 3 night vision with IR enhancer for night shooting
Guys I were hunting w are almost at war with these things
They have over a hundred game cameras set up to their phones and are fully kitted out to exterminate mass amounts of pigs over their vest amount of land
Must add they are EXTREMELY WELL OFF!!!!!
Having never had seen pigs in the wild nor the destruction they cause I was just blown away
To me most of the fields looked like a backhoe had gone crazy in them and at first I wouldn't believe when they told me pigs did the damage, thought I was getting my leg pulled
They told me they are only a few years away from being completely over run and the stats at which they kill them and how fast they breed that they will never get the problem under control
These guys do a lot of wounded warrior hunts for US Veterans so being the first Canadian one they showed me an unforgettable time!!!!!!
We only got a few pigs and no huge ones but I almost didn't come home I had such a good time
Pigs.....very smelly and very tough
We would find them in the dark after we shot them by circling around and just following the smell, follow up executions with a Glock was most fun as well for the survivors of the AR's
Last bit of insight,
These are very hard critters to hunt, they are EXTREMELY smart and will change habits (tactics once they have been hunted for a period of time, also they don't move around much in the daylight that I saw
I gave this experience a 10/10 and can't wait to go back
AR 10, suppressor and 168gr hand loads
Used ATN Gen 3 night vision with IR enhancer for night shooting
Guys I were hunting w are almost at war with these things
They have over a hundred game cameras set up to their phones and are fully kitted out to exterminate mass amounts of pigs over their vest amount of land
Must add they are EXTREMELY WELL OFF!!!!!
Having never had seen pigs in the wild nor the destruction they cause I was just blown away
To me most of the fields looked like a backhoe had gone crazy in them and at first I wouldn't believe when they told me pigs did the damage, thought I was getting my leg pulled
They told me they are only a few years away from being completely over run and the stats at which they kill them and how fast they breed that they will never get the problem under control
These guys do a lot of wounded warrior hunts for US Veterans so being the first Canadian one they showed me an unforgettable time!!!!!!
We only got a few pigs and no huge ones but I almost didn't come home I had such a good time
Pigs.....very smelly and very tough
We would find them in the dark after we shot them by circling around and just following the smell, follow up executions with a Glock was most fun as well for the survivors of the AR's
Last bit of insight,
These are very hard critters to hunt, they are EXTREMELY smart and will change habits (tactics
once they have been hunted for a period of time, also they don't move around much in the daylight that I sawI gave this experience a 10/10 and can't wait to go back
- Location
- The Orion Arm
Plenty of power for a pig. I saw 2 taken down with a 629 while I was in NC hunting them with my AR. Bang/flop. .357 is enough as well.
As with anything, shot placement is key and a pig's anatomy isn't the same as a deer's or moose's. If you shoot it behind the shoulder, you just end up with a gut-shot. You have to aim for the neck or just infront of the front legs to put one in the boiler.
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Yep on the pig vitals. Heart is located in the lower part of the chest cavity and is partially screened by the fore leg. Use an adequate caliber and the lungs usually take some considerable damage too with a bullet strike to the pumper. Talking about adults here.
meadowmuffin3
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- In the Dog House mostly
It already is ... Queen's Park is full of them
One if shot from a Glock 17
Edit: Note to those of you who don't know better - my post was meant as a joke. Do not try to fire rifle cartridges out of a hangun or any calibers that your gun isn't rated for, period.
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Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Give it a go yourself, then report back to us.
- Location
- The Orion Arm
Judging from what I saw from the piggies that were harvested, 2 got shot in the neck/head with 1 shot and dropped and I saw another get double tapped and go down...we found 1 in the boiler room and 1 in the gut. Don't know which one got where first.
They were 62gr though. I was assured by the CO I chatted with that even a 55gr is plenty if you do your part. He then pointed to the M&P45 at my hip (don't you just love wilderness carry?) and said that would be just as fine if I could manage to put a .45ACP round in the head. But since there is a pocket of pure-blooded wild boar in NC (and not just feral pigs like most places), he did recommend emptying the magazine if it came to that, just to be sure. He said you don't want to be messing around with a single shot only if you wound a wild boar and he decides to hurt you.
How about night hunting with silencers?
You mean like it is commonly done in the United States? Nothing new about that.
253 removed from the food chain so far. This winter was hard on them around here as some starved out I believe. Crossing my fingers!!!
The meat flavor is very dependent on their diet. garbage in = garbage out I have shot some that were so rank the ravens wouldn't eat them.
The ratio seems to be about 70% female so that is why their numbers can build so quick.
The meat flavor is very dependent on their diet. garbage in = garbage out I have shot some that were so rank the ravens wouldn't eat them.
The ratio seems to be about 70% female so that is why their numbers can build so quick.
