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JORDAN
Junior Member
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 Posted - Jan 13 2012 : 23:53:19
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Onondaga:
that makes me a little nervous. Maybe I'll have to take to 300 Ultra Mag after all. I do have a 480 Ruger pistol that I will take for sure just in case. Hopefully a well placed heavy for caliber bullet from the 223 or 22-250 can do the job. And shastaboat that you tube clip is sweet I would do that in a heart beat. that looks like way too much fun. thanks again for all the info. |
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Onondaga
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 00:21:18
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JORDAN,
The 300 rifle and the hefty handgun are a good safe combination. Another thing I'd recommend is to put a barrel of water and a pressure washer in the pickup truck. Those pigs smell horrible and if you pressure wash them immediately then gut them and wash out the cavity, they will taste a lot better.
Gary |
Fine rifles are never really owned. |
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Shastaboat
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 11:17:45
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| Don't forget a sawsall to butcher them with. Actually I use one on elk to quarter them out. |
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Hockeynick39
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 12:21:25
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| Why are you scaring this poor guy about needing a darn pumpkin thumper on a pig? Grab the bastards by the hocks and stab it in the chest a few times, no problems. As long as it can't turn it's cutters on you, you're good to go. Talkin' about not having any balls to hunt a pig! |
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Onondaga
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 17:34:01
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I have hunted and taken black bears and had one of them turn on me. I never fired 2 additional shots so fast in my life for a total of 3 neck shots from a .458 Win Mag. I am more afraid of hogs after seeing a close friend lose half of a side of his buttox and me having shoot the pig while it was attached to his buttox. He would not have survived alone.
It happened that he shot one of the little tasty size ones and the piglets mom tore into him when he went to pick it up. I had to run in for a very close shot to not hit my friend while he was flailing. The big sow hit him so hard and fast from behind that he dropped his rifle.
This was in a managed hunt area with a guide in PA, I think that Texas hogs are more dangerous.
Gary |
Fine rifles are never really owned. |
Edited by - Onondaga on Jan 14 2012 18:06:03 |
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dh2
Senior Member
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Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 20:23:49
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| while I do think that .224 is a bit light but like any animal stot shot placemant is the most importaint factor, even a bad hit from a .458 Win Mag is a bad hit I have the scares on my hand to remind me a bad hit on a large Ga. sow may leave it on thge ground but the teeth still work so worry about shooting the one you use well. |
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Shastaboat
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 18:30:29
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Originally posted by Hockeynick39
Why are you scaring this poor guy about needing a darn pumpkin thumper on a pig? Grab the bastards by the hocks and stab it in the chest a few times, no problems. As long as it can't turn it's cutters on you, you're good to go. Talkin' about not having any balls to hunt a pig!
TOUCHE! |
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Trapper52
New Member
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Posted - Feb 07 2012 : 23:31:23
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Jordan, I've killed lots of hogs, big hogs, 150lbs to 350lbs plus with Ruger 10/22, Marlin 30/30, Remington 700's 30/06 and TC Encore 50cal M/L. The last 4 200lb'ers with the Ruger 10/22. I have boxes of pictures and tusk pulled from the big boys. If all boils down to a couple of things. Are you going to eat them and how much meat you want to waist and if you want to track a wounded hog. NOT FUN. Hogs are tuff and don't give it up easily. Boar hogs also as they get older develope a plate on the front shoulder. I've actually seen a lead ball wad up from a smoke pipe on the big boys.
Now it all depends on the distant you intend to shoot, shot placement and bullet you intend to use. If you can wait and get up close and personal a 22 long rile (Ruger 10/22) just in front of the ear will take them all down. Short to medium short distant (60 yds or less) I like a 30/30 with a 170 gr bullet in the ear or just behind the front leg(head shot on the big boars)and medium long to long shot 100 yds on out to 300yds (that about as far as I want to shoot a hog) with 30/06 or better. USE A GOOD BULLET, that will go all the way thru. Spent many an hour tracking a hog that hunters have shot with a ballist tip most never found. These bullet are good on deer but you have to understand on a hog a ballist tip will make a small hole going in fragment and never come out and the fat covers the entry hole.....NO BLOOD TRAIL. I'm personally working up a load for my AR which I'm in hopes of extending my .22 cal distance.
Happy Hunting (the pork chops are the best you'll ever eat)
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Shastaboat
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - Feb 08 2012 : 13:37:58
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| I booked a hog hunt out of Whitesboro, TX for 3/4-3/5. I'm shooting cast 178 gr in an 8x57 Mauser. I may have a couple of days to hunt on 3/6 to 3/7 if anyone is inviting in N. TX back to NM. |
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Ds28
Moderator
USA
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Posted - Feb 11 2012 : 23:53:29
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well I can say I have seen several different scenarios with hogs. I have seen Hogs shot between the eyes with a 22LR and drop on the spot and I have seen a hog that had a poorly placed shot with a 375 Ruger using a 270 grn tsx at just under 2800fps get up and walk off and never be found. I personalty placed 3 bad shots on a running pig with a 30-06 using a 165grn that went down every shot and got back up after every shot and walked away. I have also shot hogs with a 22mag, 223, 22-250, 220 swift, 243, 6mm, 25-06, 270, 280, 308, 30-06, 300win, 300 ultra and a 44mag drop on the spot due to a well placed shot.....I do like the bigger calibers on them though because you never know what you are going to get could be a bunch of little ones and could be one loan boar in the 300 pound range and they may not give you a perfect shot or even stop as they pass bye
If you want to use your 22-250 I would look at the 55grn gameking or ttsx in the 55grn because your 1-14 twist should stabilize them and my favorite shot is broadside and have the crosshairs floating between the ear and eye or center of the neck just behind the skull on the bigger hogs. The smaller ones are much easier
In the 223 I would do just about the same and also look at the 60grn partition due to the faster twist
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603Country
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - Jul 06 2012 : 14:36:08
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| Several bullets should work just fine in your 22-250 for hogs. The Sierra 63 gr flatbase should stabilize, as should the 65 gr Gameking. The Nosler 60 Partition will work fine and the 64 gr Winchester PSP should stabilize. I've used the 63 grain Sierra in my 220 (1 in 14 twist) and it was super accurate. |
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260james
Average Member
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Posted - Jan 14 2013 : 16:13:43
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Originally posted by Onondaga
JORDAN,
Large caliber, heavy bullet combinations are much safer for the hog hunter. You could be charged and seriously injured. 45-70 lever rifles are suitable for hogs, 44 mag rifles, .500 S&W rifles, .458 Win Mag is not too much rifle for hogs. You want to hit them hard and knock them dead before they bite your face off. Do not take this lightly or you may not come home in one piece. You would be safe with a repeating 12 ga. shotgun that you can operate fast and hit well with large buckshot like 00 or rifled slugs.
If all you have is the 22-250 or .223 you need a back-up partner with a large caliber rifle and you should also carry an easy to get out hatchet in a belt sheath.
Gary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UQTQpEUni0
This is my limited experience of hog hunting on video, I was scared to death I was gonna have my face eaten off!!!!! |
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22-250 for Hogs?
