helping with the hog problem

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aylandacres;

I have a great source who's info'd me on a hunting possiblity in Sask. With a bow, muzzle-loader, and shotgun restriction on this particular hunt, I have a query. I'm not currently a bow hunter but I have a Benelli Super Nova 12 Guage (with only one barrel) and would like to use it. What do you suggest for 12 guage ammo, barrel options, and sights/ and scope. A the site I believe there are several options available for stalking, tree stand, blinds etc.

For everyone else, while the turkey hunt here in Ont has taking off like wildfire, why is Hog hunting (to me at least), seem like a non-talked about / little known sport out here ?

I mean they obviously taste good, they are wiley and can be dangerous, and farmers cant stand them. Whey isn't it marketed more ?

thanks;
 
camerl2009 said:
thats not hunting thats just food for the anti's

having pit bulls hold a hog there and you stab them not right if you want to hunt it with a knife or spear do it with out the dog's

theres easyer ways to kill them more humane and with out risking dog's lives


i see people in AB hunt cougar just about the same way thay have dogs run it up a tree then shoot it

my native blood will not let me hunt that way i like to get a quick kill im even sporting it up a bit by changing all my hunting guns to antique classed guns

my choice for russian bore would be my martini henry for spot and stalk as thats more of a trophy hunt

for these wild hogs id just use a shotgun with buckshot in a tower blind and a feeder about 30 yards away
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so much fail?

Humane? Yet "flock shooting" with buckshot is okay "you might hit more than one".

Blah, blah.

The OP is either simple or 16.
 
OO or OOO buck shot and an extra full turkey choke. i believe 9 pellets in a pie plate at 60 yards.

The reason there isn't more hunters doing it is that you can't "road hunt" these animals.

As far as taste it is kind of a crap shoot. It really depends on what there are eating. Some of the ones I have shot not even the ravens have a go at them. The boars themselves will eat up there own dead!!
 
I've shot an even dozen wild boar, the first 7 with a .257 Weatherby Mag shooting Hornady 100gr spire point bullets, all were bang flops with an exit hole.

The next 5 were with a 22-250 shooting 60gr Nosler partition bullets, again all were down to the shot. I found the partitions aginst the offside hide. While skinning one of these hogs i found a .22 rimefire bullet, it had penitrated the hide and about an inch of the two inch thick fat layer, I doubt that buckshot would do any better than this but i sure would like to be on hand to watch some nimrod try to make bacon with buckshot.
 
abolt said:
Sweet pic!!!!. What brand of sticker is that, Is it a custom?. I hear Greg Lightfoot a custom knife maker out of Alberta makes some wicked ones.
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The knife is a custom made by one CGNer and another one made the sheath. There is a whole sticky on it in the knife forum.
Last fall's plan for boar in California got messed up, but this summer I'm hoping to make it and get the freezer full of bacon again! :D Sadly they have a 'no knife' law. :( Spoilsports.
 
gpboar-1.jpg

Unwanted hogs have been a problem to mankind for a while.
Artwork from 15th century Belgium.
 
wow people a shotgun loaded with buckshot has taken more game then most of us can count 00 buck with a 9 pellet load in a IC choke is what give me the best patterns and ive taken a deer with this load

too tight a choke only makes it spread becuse of pellet deformation

i just seen a cci velocitor go 11" into FBI calibrated sim-test ballistic media and that type of media is the best out there as it does not change in hot weather

people dont relly know what there talking about do thay

know your target and put the shot in the right spot

even with my bad eyes i can still place a shotgun slug out of a smooth bore into a 6" target at 50-100 yard's and that gun only has a bead sight

with my cooey im just as deadly as when shooting the enfield and i can do the same job for cheaper

i bet the best hog guns out there are the m44 mosin and the sks thay both have hog stickers on them
 
camerl2009 said:
thats not hunting thats just food for the anti's

having pit bulls hold a hog there and you stab them not right if you want to hunt it with a knife or spear do it with out the dog's

theres easyer ways to kill them more humane and with out risking dog's lives


i see people in AB hunt cougar just about the same way thay have dogs run it up a tree then shoot it

my native blood will not let me hunt that way i like to get a quick kill im even sporting it up a bit by changing all my hunting guns to antique classed guns

my choice for russian bore would be my martini henry for spot and stalk as thats more of a trophy hunt

for these wild hogs id just use a shotgun with buckshot in a tower blind and a feeder about 30 yards away
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Cause baiting them in when your above them at CLOSE range with a shotgun is SOOO hard, really sporting and traditional!!!

ANY hunting is bad to the antis. Hunting them with dogs is not easy, your running ALL day so you must be in shape. I would go on about this but feel like it would be pointless...
 
sjemac said:
how could one post



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so much fail?

Humane? Yet "flock shooting" with buckshot is okay "you might hit more than one".

Blah, blah.

The OP is either simple or 16.
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Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

I think we have today's winner of the Internets! :D

I'll lay a buck down that says the closest the OP ever gets to a wild pig, is to eat a second helping of ham at the supper table. Maybe a third.

Cheers
Trev
 
Camelr2009, you remind me of that 9y/o kid at the gun-show who was running around to every table with a black-rifle...

"WOW, look at that, that's friggin awesome..! Can you get a banana-clip for it..?"

* and try using punctuation & proper grammar... Troll.

:rolleyes:
 
aylandacres said:
You guys do the math they can have up to 4 litters /yr at 6-10 per litter.
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Um gestation on a pig is 115 days, domestic pigs are doing about 24-30 pigs weaned per sow year, in 2.4 litters a year, so my math isn't working.

Last week I had two domestic cull boars (about 600LBers) go down in my trailer, I didn't feel safe shooting them with the captive bolt gun, so I called a friend to see if he could come with a real gun. Since they were in a trailer a high power wouldn't have been a good idea, and my buddy only has a .303 and a .270wsm. We did try the rimfire first and didn't even faze them, so we used no.4 shot on then worked really well at about 2 yards.
 
spear hunting and another pie

I'm wondering how the F&**g I'd get my spear on Air Canada ? In all seriousness though, after reading some of the posts here on some CGN'ers hunting experiences, I have to say that hunting a boar with a spear, or small caliber firearm, would be virtual suicide.

I'm going to try the pie plate at 60-75 yards, using 00-000 buckshot, and my full choke. If anything else I'll have fun, it'll give me an excuse to buy an extra tight choke and, more importantly, another pie.

Brutus said:
gpboar-1.jpg

Unwanted hogs have been a problem to mankind for a while.
Artwork from 15th century Belgium.
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Well thanks for correcting me, as I shouldn't assume what I have heard as being correct... all I know is that the boar farmers that cut loose their herds should be held liable for the cost of eradicating them. These boars can be quite destructive in our fields.

All I know is they reproduce way too much!!

Even at "2.4" litters /yr that is an ever expanding problem. I have opened many sows with 7-9 fetuses inside.

They do have litters year around as I have come across newborn ones in January.
 
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