my koch seen some action last weekend
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thank you for the words of advice and encouragement.
went down this afternoon -26c and 40kmh wind,not ideal for standing around,but hey ho.
five little turned up,we waited around for the sow to show but one didnt.
my mate shot first(i went in with back up this time) and i shot.
both of us missed!!!!
i have changed my baiting set up with a 60gal plastic container full of grain with 1 1/4 inch holes in,rachet strapped
to a tree.the area was flatten with hog activity and 70 pics on cam since 2pm yesterday.
i just need to make 2inch holes so the grain flows a bit better.
My rifle is sighted in fine but those little pigs can sure run fast
no experience shooting boars but lots shooting farm pigs... a little OT but some what relevant ... was asked to help a friend shoot his bacon hogs ( way over fed 400lbers ..lol ) usually shoot them between the eyes and above (butchers cross ) was how i was taught.. check this site to see the brain location
http://www.vdpam.iastate.edu/HumaneEuthanasia/anat.htm
long story short... my friend insisted we shoot one hog as his text book said... on the side, behind the ear with a 410 slug... ! which he did himself.... pig went down, and legs stopped moving... 5min, and pig starts moving and trying to get up !!! I told him to shoot it right, before that sucker runs off... .. shortly he agreed and shot the pig on the front with the standard butchers cross... except.... now there was a 45 cal hole on the side of the pigs head... and as you can imagine when he shot, we were showered with brain material, exploding out that side hole in a huge pink mist !!! .... theres a right way and a wrong way... LOL
if it were me, I'd use a 308 semi on those pigs.. heart/lung ... Make'em dead and make'em bacon !!! yes
mabbe load up the shotgun with 00buck if your blood trailing them.. just incase backup gun
http://www.vdpam.iastate.edu/HumaneEuthanasia/anat.htm
long story short... my friend insisted we shoot one hog as his text book said... on the side, behind the ear with a 410 slug... ! which he did himself.... pig went down, and legs stopped moving... 5min, and pig starts moving and trying to get up !!! I told him to shoot it right, before that sucker runs off... .. shortly he agreed and shot the pig on the front with the standard butchers cross... except.... now there was a 45 cal hole on the side of the pigs head... and as you can imagine when he shot, we were showered with brain material, exploding out that side hole in a huge pink mist !!! .... theres a right way and a wrong way... LOL
if it were me, I'd use a 308 semi on those pigs.. heart/lung ... Make'em dead and make'em bacon !!! yes
mabbe load up the shotgun with 00buck if your blood trailing them.. just incase backup gun
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Literally tens of thousands of wild pigs are hunted every year in North America with near zero issues. Yes we can google bathtub injuries too. If you're armed, you're extremely safe to follow, and take a much bigger risk crossing an intersection while driving. Bears, Boars, or Bull Moose- follow them to the end of the trail, it's part of hunting. There are much scarier things many members here have followed into thick scrub, pigs are not a worry. You miss out on the best part of the hunt too, confirmation. Follow ups are part of the experience, and a hunter's responsibility as Hoyt points out. There's always knitting! 
Yes, be careful... be cautious... be alert... BUT if you are not prepared to follow to the end, then don't squeeze the trigger in the first place...
I have recovered a dozen wounded bears over the years that were given up on by fearful hunters, who had done little more than a cursory search and then bailed out... all of those times the phone rang at midnight or one in the morning... I pulled on my jeans, grabbed a flashlight, spare batteries and a belt knife and went and crawled around in the bush until I had determined that the bear would recover from a non-fatal wound or we had found the animal... and of course there were a few unhappy conclusions, but more often than not a recovery was made in short order.
I've shot quite few bears, mostly without problems. I did have one wounded spring bear that weighed a little over 400 pounds come back at me. I'm glad I was standing up, with a 444 in my hands, not just a 5-inch knife, as this poor fellow in the video apparently had.
how could the hog try to get up after 5 minutes of being shot .after you shot a hog to butcher you stick them to bleed them out right away well thy are stiff .if you were to wait 5 minutes before sticking them you are no butcher .I have butcherd 200 hogs 5 days a week for many many years .never seen a hog get up after being stuck .give me a break Dutch
Sounds like a fun game with a Mini 30 or SKS............I'm in, where do I go? Hell I'll even buy a SS and plastic Mini 30 for the occasion...........and a 1/2 doz mags. Sounds like a good (read fast) dog would come in useful as well.
Hoyt......these things breed so fast and are so successful that sometimes one needs to throw ethics and sport out the window and put as many holes in as many critters as possible in an attempt to control numbers OR the prairies could end up with the problems Texas has. They need to be thought of more as really big and destructive gophers, they will void the country of both WT and muleys and generally reek havoc on the agricultural properties as well. Boar in a controlled environment can be great game animals but with virtually no natural enemies on our Canadian prairies they will very soon get out of control and the consequences of that are dire indeed. I have seen with my own eyes the destruction in Texas, where they are a verminous plague, they run down and kill and eat fawns, they will sniff out and kill and eat fawning does, they will run down and kill and eat injured animals..........they make wolves look like saints. And wolves don't tear up hundreds of acres of onions and turnips and grain crops...........Feral and wild pigs are one of the most destructive of all invasive species and should be given no quarter what so ever.
Hoyt......these things breed so fast and are so successful that sometimes one needs to throw ethics and sport out the window and put as many holes in as many critters as possible in an attempt to control numbers OR the prairies could end up with the problems Texas has. They need to be thought of more as really big and destructive gophers, they will void the country of both WT and muleys and generally reek havoc on the agricultural properties as well. Boar in a controlled environment can be great game animals but with virtually no natural enemies on our Canadian prairies they will very soon get out of control and the consequences of that are dire indeed. I have seen with my own eyes the destruction in Texas, where they are a verminous plague, they run down and kill and eat fawns, they will sniff out and kill and eat fawning does, they will run down and kill and eat injured animals..........they make wolves look like saints. And wolves don't tear up hundreds of acres of onions and turnips and grain crops...........Feral and wild pigs are one of the most destructive of all invasive species and should be given no quarter what so ever.
Douglas... I'm no bleeding heart... and I have NO problem perforating feral pigs... but using your gopher analogy, I would feel the same way... if there were a hot, active town and I shot the hind leg off a gopher... I would not be searching for a new target until I put that wounded gopher down... no matter how many rounds it took... here is another analogy... hunting late season divers in big, frothy water generally means a short flight of birds... but if you happen to cripple a goldeneye, you will loose the bird if you don't get after it immediately... it means spending perhaps 10-20 minutes chasing it through the waves and burning up half a box of shells trying to anchor the cripple, while in the meantime missing out on a big portion of the flight... but that is what we do... because our responsibility as hunters continues after the boom as much as before and during... for me it is a principle that extends from mice to moose... that is just the way my father trained me... and the way I trained my kids...
So... by all means, blast some pigs, as many as you can... but FINISH the job...
JMO
skneub
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Wrong Way
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Respect.
