Proves shot placement is the key, good job !

Boats

Great job. Believe it or not, there's a bunch in Canada starting to move down into Minnesota and North Dakota. Who would have guessed that they could survive in our country.

Nasty looking beasts... Here in Georgia they do so much damage to agriculture. Millions of dollars every year. They have decimated one golf course here locally. One caretaker roams the course at night on a golf cart armed with an AR with night optics. We shoot on site no questions asked.



   JMH

Well done! 
And some people say the .32-40 wont kill hogs. Great shooting!

"They have decimated one golf course here locally. One caretaker roams the course at night on a golf cart armed with an AR with night optics. We shoot on site no questions asked."

Well, ya oughta shoot that caretaker on sight! If he's impeding those hogs in getting rid of another vemin-ridden golf course, he's gotta be stopped.

yamoon wrote on Dec 10^th, 2023 at 10:10am:


One of my cousins once managed a ranch/orchard operation in Utah. He had big problems with deer and was able to get a permit to shoot them with the caveat that they had to left where they laid. Terrible waste of meat! Great opportunity to shoot but a great waste of a lot of meat.

Northern California once had so many feral pigs that they did it like a fishing licence limit, one in possession and when it was consumed (or gone) go out and get another. I went with a friend and shot a few. Tough lil' buggers. But, as has been said here already, they taste just like the ones in the store. Make good barbeque too.

Richard is correct, so far, they are only in southern counties. Perhaps Kansas Wildlife and Parks is correct in the way they are handling the pigs. It seems like a resource we are not utilizing. Some of the guys who worked for me paid money to travel to Oklahoma to hunt pigs, stayed in hotels, ate in restaurants etc. money to Ok.
Mike

Haha, depends on the weather.

westerner wrote on Dec 11^th, 2023 at 8:01pm:


Are those the ones running wild inside Walmart Joe?

westerner wrote on Dec 11^th, 2023 at 10:30pm:


I used to, but Walmart decided to close both stores in Portland. Now it's too far to drive outside Portland to see the wild hogs running down their aisles!

They can still be seen at any Chinese buffet...

I think I'll stick to the hogs at the ranch. Probably not as ill tempered as the ones you have in mind. You can find them in Walmart here as well. Seems like the big ones with a bad attitude, can always be identified by their blue or purple hair. Makes them easy to spot and avoid.
Thanks for the laughs.

westerner wrote on Dec 11^th, 2023 at 8:01pm:


I didn't start this thread drift Joe! This guy did it!^^^^^

Good that the wee little bullet went into the ear. I doubt that would do  a good job elsewhere on the porker. I shot one with in the shoulder with a 44 mag. The damn thing staggered, looked around to see what bumped into him and resumed eating with the rest of the gang. Tough critters. Took another bullet driven in from the front to get him. Went back to the thirty-thirty.

Yum... pork

I am not sure why, but I have a desire to shoot hogs someday.  Looks like I may have to take some vacation to TX.

went after some back in North Carolina back when i didnt know any better. followed them thru some briar thickets until one decided he left something behind and was returning to find it.it was a Russian variety and was not happy, no time to shoot so i cant relate what a 16 guage slug would do. New underwear was quickly purchased.

My dad taught me to take my time and place my shot. If you are going to shoot an animal, it is only right to make a quick, clean kill. If you can't do that, just pass and hope for another opportunity. I always cringe before deer season when I see guys puff out their chest because they can hit a paper plate at 100 yards. Dad made my brother and I qualify for him each year with the rifle we wanted to hunt with. Three shots had to group in the X ring and be under an inch. It made us practice and learn trigger control. At twelve years old, he wouldn't let us shoot from a bench. We had to use field conditions and shoot from whatever was available as a rest. I am mid sixties now and still appreciate the lessons he taught me. I usually am not too concerned about the caliber. I don't shoot if I doubt my ability to make a clean kill.