Hog Hunting Help

[edgehill]

From the people I know who have taken hogs 10mm will be fine. I even know a few who have taken them with knives.

One point of warning. If you do kill one be careful coming in contact with the blood. If you have a cut, use long gloves. I know a few people who have gotten some virus during cleaning that made them sick for months afterward, including being hospitalized.

[sdmc530]

thanks for the info....I know they are mean suckers. Didn't know they were that ill though...crazy. Yeah looking forward to this hunt, should be fun with dad. Wish I didn't have to wait so long though.

[Sheepdog]

10mm's will work fine given proper shot placement. As pointed out they do have a protective cartilage plate on their sides. I have seen some over an inch and a half thick. Light high velocity rounds can explode in this plate. My shot of choice is in or behind the ear. They are vermin kill them all!!!! Don't go hands and knees in the brush looking for a wounded one. It is my experience that hogs will not charge you unless a little one is in danger or they are wounded. They are basically blind past their nose and will sometimes run past you, because they don't know you are there. They have a great nose and usually very weary.

[douglas_knott]

Your 10 mm is fine . Where you going?

[milkmanjoe]

I hear Buffalo Bore makes cast boolits for hogs. I use 250 grain cast in .45. One day I'm gonna get me a 10mm or .45 longslide.

Sounds like a fun hunt...though has the answer..be ready for follow up shots. I bring a very sharp bayonet. Shoot hog, hog down, cut throat. When pistol hunting, I mean.

[sdmc530]

Originally Posted by douglas_knott

Your 10 mm is fine . Where you going?

Its kind of cheating really to a 750 acher game preserve in IA. My dad can not get out like he used to so we have to be careful where we go. Its a good time and still kind of hunting. We actually don't have the wild hogs up here yet so without driving to MO or south this is the only way we can get him one.

[Deleted]

if you really want to hog hunt leave the guns at home get a few good dogs.


Let the dog's pin it down and you go in there with just a knife and finish the hog off.


I've done it ONCE and let me tell you........You have to be a absolute IDIOT to do this, But I was goated into it as my manhood was questioned and Y'all know me. I had to be THAT IDIOT.


I prefer my 30-06 and shoot them at 50 yrds or better, they can and will turn and try to eat your lunch, A buddy shot one at 30yrds and got a 10" scar and 25 stitches to show for it.

[Riverpigusmc]

I wanna go, I wanna go

[milkmanjoe]

Originally Posted by USPSA Shooter

if you really want to hog hunt leave the guns at home get a few good dogs.


Let the dog's pin it down and you go in there with just a knife and finish the hog off.


I've done it ONCE and let me tell you........You have to be a absolute IDIOT to do this, But I was goated into it as my manhood was questioned and Y'all know me. I had to be THAT IDIOT.


I prefer my 30-06 and shoot them at 50 yrds or better, they can and will turn and try to eat your lunch, A buddy shot one at 30yrds and got a 10" scar and 25 stitches to show for it.

Nothing idiotic about it at all, if done right. We use pit bulls in Hawaii, they corner the hog and the kill is easy. However, on the Big Island of Hawaii, 1984-85, I was hunting with locals, and we decided that the guy using the smallest blade to take a hog was top dog. I pulled my Buck 110. Dogs cornered a hog, in the scrub. I went balls to the wall and hit my belly to crawl in right when the hog broke past the dogs and came right at me. While I was on my belly slashing at it the damn thing removed my left bicep. That happened cause I was young and stupid. Done correctly there is very little risk, the pits have hold of the hog and all you do is slit its throat, it goes down almost immediately. Her is my scar today, it has healed over by 2X what it was...

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