- Location
- Cold Lake, Alberta
I've been wanting to try it for years, and I finally have the chance. What advice can anyone give me on boar hunting. I'm an avid deer and moose hunter, so I am hoping to be able to apply some of those skills.
Boar Hunting
- Thread starter demonic2020
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The first step is to locate them....
Second step is put the cross hairs on them ...
Third step is to pull the trigger.
Sorry for being silly, but not having seen one in the wild(save for a few pictures) it should be pretty straight forward.
From the clips I have seen they either have no fear or are very skittish when it comes to human presence.
Check out Boar Hunter dot ca...there is a general map of Canada with confirmed sightings and kills and more....
Rob
Second step is put the cross hairs on them ...
Third step is to pull the trigger.
Sorry for being silly, but not having seen one in the wild(save for a few pictures) it should be pretty straight forward.
From the clips I have seen they either have no fear or are very skittish when it comes to human presence.
Check out Boar Hunter dot ca...there is a general map of Canada with confirmed sightings and kills and more....
Rob
powdermaker
CGN Regular
- Location
- Saskatchewan
I had the opportunity to hunt boar in Germany, several years ago. The first one I shot was with a 30-06 at about 40 meters. It was a small 30 kg. "frischling". At the shot, it dropped in its tracks but as my friend was offering congratulations.....it got up and ran away! We found a lot of blood and a large chunk of bone from the front leg, but no pig. We were advised to leave the animal until morning and then go after it with specially trained boar dogs. It traveled about 400 meters into a thick cedar grove and the dogs quickly cornered it and we could finish it off. The problem was, I had aimed too far forward. My german friend told me to "aim for the middle". He was right, because the boar has a large head and neck compared to other animals we are used to hunting. The recovered animal had a broken front leg and gaping hole in its neck but was still able to give the dogs a good fight. So, that is my limited experience with wild boar.....for what it is worth.
driftpounder
Member
- Location
- Martensville, SK
Lots harder to hunt than other big game species. They are very smart and wary of human activity. Typically they are nocturnal, with very little day light movement. One of the best ways to hunt them is in winter if you can find some spoiled grain out in the field. If they are in the area they will be there right before dark and until just before day light as long as nothing bumps them off or the grain runs out. I have also hunted them in the bush, not very successfully. Had sightings but no chances for shots yet. If you put enough time in the field you will eventually get a chance, it's only a matter of time and knowing where they are going to move to next is helpful.
Aim for the middle like stated above. They are solid animals and I would recommend a well constructed heavy hunting bullet being thrown very fast. Quartering away shots are pretty high success as there is a good window into the vitals, but I wouldn't take a quartering towards you shot, to much solid bone and muscle to punch through and absorb the bullet. Broad side is a good shot as well, but head shots should be avoided all together, to small of a brain and heavy bone to go through.
Make sure to have good hunting buddies if you do get one, they can be a real pig to move around on your own after the kill.
Aim for the middle like stated above. They are solid animals and I would recommend a well constructed heavy hunting bullet being thrown very fast. Quartering away shots are pretty high success as there is a good window into the vitals, but I wouldn't take a quartering towards you shot, to much solid bone and muscle to punch through and absorb the bullet. Broad side is a good shot as well, but head shots should be avoided all together, to small of a brain and heavy bone to go through.
Make sure to have good hunting buddies if you do get one, they can be a real pig to move around on your own after the kill.
- Location
- Saskatchewan
My limited experience comes from just a few hunts in Germany. There, they are most often shot at night or on the run. Don't expect to see one standing around in broad daylight like a deer might. Pushing bush is effective, and they are a little easier to hit on the run than most critters because they run flat, no bounce like a deer. We generally can't shoot at night, but where legal, night hunting is very effective with a great big light gathering scope. Use your moose rifle, not your deer rig, and bullets that penetrate well, heavy for caliber or monometal. Calibers/loads on the hunts I participated in were generally 7MM 160-175gr, .308 180 gr, 30-06 180-220 gr, 8MM 196gr, and 9.3 286 gr. With these caliber/bullet combinations, you can take a quartering - to shot and the bullet will make it through thick shoulder skin and heavy bone and still penetrate the vitals. A light fast bullet from something like a 243 will kill them with a broadside shot, but is not reliable on the front and back angles. I shot all mine with a borrowed Blaser 30-06 and 200 grain bullets and a 6x50 scope with German #1 reticle. They can be very good to eat, treat the meat with respect.
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Good luck....they are one of the hardest species to hunt. Probably have a better chance killing a trophy whitetail. Ive hunted them with a fellow CGN'er who has killed a number and we couldnt get any. If they are in a prairie setting with no forest and you have sleds or quads you may have better luck.
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If you can set up like doing a "deer drive". Push the boars downwind and have the shooters ready and make sure they aren't talking or else the pigs will divert around them. They are very agile and have great endurance unless you can steer them into deep snow. I have had them literally get stuck in deep snow.
Shoot straight and don't stop till the whole group is taken out!!
If you catch the group of boars sleeping , you will be amazed how fast group of pigs explodes from sleeping to full speed after the first shot into them. If you aim correctly you will often get doubles with one shot.
Shoot straight and don't stop till the whole group is taken out!!
If you catch the group of boars sleeping , you will be amazed how fast group of pigs explodes from sleeping to full speed after the first shot into them. If you aim correctly you will often get doubles with one shot.
in order to hunt wild boar in SE MB you must first have more patients than anybody I know. If you don't, forget the whole darn thing!
>Step 1: find a known location where they are, & have an 8 whl wide track Argo handy to get there in
>Step 2: build a tree stand in a good area where there will be natural moon light
>Step 3: sit quietly in your tree stand all night on every bright moon lite night
>Step 4: keep repeating step 3 until you get so sick'n tired of it
>Step 5: say many curse words out loud, go home, sell your BLR 358 that you bought especially for hog hunting, go to Safeway or Extra Foods and buy some smoked ham & bacon, just like I did!
>Step 1: find a known location where they are, & have an 8 whl wide track Argo handy to get there in
>Step 2: build a tree stand in a good area where there will be natural moon light
>Step 3: sit quietly in your tree stand all night on every bright moon lite night
>Step 4: keep repeating step 3 until you get so sick'n tired of it
>Step 5: say many curse words out loud, go home, sell your BLR 358 that you bought especially for hog hunting, go to Safeway or Extra Foods and buy some smoked ham & bacon, just like I did!
I've killed most of my pigs with a .458 Win Mag, and many with a 30-06 and a few with a .300 or STW. It didn't seem to make much difference. They are easy to hit running, which is handy because you can count on them running after you kill the first one. When dealing with an escaping bunch, try to shoot the front ones first. There's at least a chance that any following it will stop or slow when the front one goes from running to flopping. If you shoot the back one none will notice, but its better than nothing if its the only shot you have. Shoot the big ones first if you can, youngsters get confused when mom's dead. Killing the one behind your target animal, whether by plan or accident is a freeby, take all of those that you can get. The only good pig is a dead pig.
- Location
- Regina, Saskatchewan
15 years ago, while deer hunting in the forests of northern Alberta, I encountered a wild pig. He was in a small opening and showed no fear as I stood at the edge looking at him. Perhaps he could not see me very well as I have heard they can not see very far. As he stood slightly sideways to me, I shot him once with my Winchester 100, 308 with a 150 gr. round nose nosler partition. The bullet hit him behind the front leg and just high, but he toppled over without making a step. As I had to pack him out a couple miles, I dressed and quartered him, leaving his head about 6 feet in a tree so I could come back the next day and drag it out also. When I returned the following day, there was nothing but black hair... the wolves had eaten the legs, insides, and even pulled the head out of the tree and made off with it. However, the pigs meat was dark red and very good eating. I'd love to shoot another!!
I know nothing about shooting them, but if you shove 6" of steel into their chest it tends to ruin their day! They are faster, smarter and tougher than most people imagine. Enjoy the hunt and be sure to take lots of photos!
In the Southern USA..........They can be located in most any type terrain where they are plentiful. Once one is poorly shot it will run away or run over you depending on a few things which only the boar knows....
Regardless, they will then go to the most impenetrable place within their territory. You will only get to them on your hands and knees or lower.
I have either hunted them/caught them or guided in the Deep South Swamps all my life. They will charge occasionally(depending on genetics mostly) and bite worse than a German Shepard (no offense to German Shepard).
They aren't particularly hard to kill, especially the more domestic type feral hogs but the european cross is more anti social.
Where the problem lies, is most people aren't used to something running at them and their shooting skills(or lack of)reflects that.
This is where a bigger caliber and shot placement cause less excitement.
Regardless, they will then go to the most impenetrable place within their territory. You will only get to them on your hands and knees or lower.
I have either hunted them/caught them or guided in the Deep South Swamps all my life. They will charge occasionally(depending on genetics mostly) and bite worse than a German Shepard (no offense to German Shepard).
They aren't particularly hard to kill, especially the more domestic type feral hogs but the european cross is more anti social.
Where the problem lies, is most people aren't used to something running at them and their shooting skills(or lack of)reflects that.
This is where a bigger caliber and shot placement cause less excitement.
- Location
- The Orion Arm
I've hunted boars (the razorback "European" kind and not the feral pig kind) in North Carolina for a few years now. Look for trunks low to the ground where they would have rubbed themselves. Their scat looks like human scat. In the fall, they tend to gorge themselves on acorns, so any expanse with oaks might be a good spot to start looking. They tend to travel on "highways" to and from their nesting areas, meaning along long corridors that branch off from the center trunk line to separate areas. If you're lucky enough to stumble upon one, you'll be watching them dart in front of you from left to right and right to left all day long.
They've become nocturnal due to hunting pressure, but that doesn't mean they sleep during the day. Find the most inaccessible area of the forest that's overrun with bushes and impassible thickets, and go deeper into that. That's usually where they nest.
You could always try baiting them, but I never have.
DO NOT AIM LIKE YOU WOULD ON A DEER OR MOOSE. Sorry for the caps, but if you're a humane hunter, this is important. The boiler room isn't like on the ungulates, and if you shoot one there, you'll just end up gut shooting it. Their vitals are in front of their front leg, in the area between their shoulder blade/armor plate and their elbow and low to the ground. Picture a human down on all 4s and you get the idea.
Best place to hit them is usually the neck. I've used .223 JSP like many, many other hunters do. I've seen them dropped with .44magnum handguns too (in the US). Shot placement is everything like all animals.
Their tracks look very similar to deer, except they're rounded instead of pointed. Boar look like a single hoof with a crescent moon at the top whereas feral pig and deer are 2 distinct hooves
One last thing: if you're going to be hunting them in the US, you may want to wilderness carry. I always had a .45 on my hip (at the time...now it's a 10mm) incase my AR jammed after the 1st shot and it didn't drop. Boars WILL charge if wounded and p*ssed off. Feral pigs I don't know about.
Good luck
They've become nocturnal due to hunting pressure, but that doesn't mean they sleep during the day. Find the most inaccessible area of the forest that's overrun with bushes and impassible thickets, and go deeper into that. That's usually where they nest.
You could always try baiting them, but I never have.
DO NOT AIM LIKE YOU WOULD ON A DEER OR MOOSE. Sorry for the caps, but if you're a humane hunter, this is important. The boiler room isn't like on the ungulates, and if you shoot one there, you'll just end up gut shooting it. Their vitals are in front of their front leg, in the area between their shoulder blade/armor plate and their elbow and low to the ground. Picture a human down on all 4s and you get the idea.
Best place to hit them is usually the neck. I've used .223 JSP like many, many other hunters do. I've seen them dropped with .44magnum handguns too (in the US). Shot placement is everything like all animals.
Their tracks look very similar to deer, except they're rounded instead of pointed. Boar look like a single hoof with a crescent moon at the top whereas feral pig and deer are 2 distinct hooves
One last thing: if you're going to be hunting them in the US, you may want to wilderness carry. I always had a .45 on my hip (at the time...now it's a 10mm) incase my AR jammed after the 1st shot and it didn't drop. Boars WILL charge if wounded and p*ssed off. Feral pigs I don't know about.
Good luck
Doesn't come up at that address.
Try this one then....
http://wildboarcanada.ca/#sthash.8qtXeJIx.dpbs
Not the one I was referring to in an earlier comment, but close enough.
Now to cook some bacon and eggs.
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