SKS - When you absolutely, positively, need to shoot every feral pig in Australia...
- Thread starter grelmar
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FreedomIsn'tFree
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- Republic of Buffalo.
Very nice shooting!
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- Location
- Southern ontario
Pff type 97 would be a better hog gun than an sks
It already is, but for some reason, the gub'mint is keeping a lid on the publicity.
Cypress Hills region and up around Lloydminster are known problem areas, and both the AB government and Sask government have a bounty program in place - send them the ears and you get a few $$.
They're just way harder to hunt here because of the regs around firearms and vehicles. Give it a few more years and the little buggers will do the natural thing and breed like rabbits until it gets to the point they can't keep a lid on it anymore. Then they'll make it hard for locals to shoot them and charge big $$ for outfitter licences so the yanks can come up and shoot them, like they do with a lot of other game in both provinces.
No, it wouldn't. .223/5.56 doesn't have the same stopping power as 7.62x39.
7.62x39 has just over 1500ft lbs energy at the muzzle, vs. under 1300ft lbs for .223/5.56, based on a 20" bbl (average loads).
.223 holds its energy for longer distances, but the "crossover" is at about 200 meters. 50-75 meter shots vs. a running pig is the outside limit of what you're going to be shooting, so the "accuracy advantage" of the .223 is irrelevant.
FWIW: I hunt deer with 7.62x39 (Hornady SST loads), also shoot coyotes with it. I wouldn't shoot either with .223 - the odds of a clean kill are far, far less. A long time ago I used to shoot coyotes with .223, and I can assure you from personal experience, it isn't a consistently effective cartridge against coyotes, let alone something larger. 7.62x39 drops them with one shot.
Too late... razor backs are already in Canada. The largest population in Ontario, being tracked by the MNR is in the Ottawa area. Give it a few years and the population will explode like the turkey population that was introduced back in the southern Ontario not too long ago. The good thing is that you could hunt wild hogs with a small game license. http://www.simcoe.com/opinion-story/4461963-wild-boars-make-escape/
Not sure if they just didn't show it, but there needed to be someone in the back of that Rhino with a loaded semi-auto with some kind of support ring to keep you from bouncing around too much! Like the .50 Cal's mounted on the top of a Humvee! Then the driver could concentrate on where they were going and the guy out back could really concentate on laying out the lead!!!
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Yeah! I love the two guys sitting in the front rack of the truck!!!! May be kinda hard for the driver to see past them properly though. That second one would be perfect with a good seatbelt set-up for sitting or standing while driving so you don't fall out over bumps or sharp turns! How much fun would that be!!!
