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Re: Hog hunt. Go

Post by Geno » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:30 pm

Both will work if you can get close within 100 yards. Is this one of the companies that use gen 3 or better night vision?
If you may be using one of the wicked lights you will be in the 100 yard realm. In the dark, I would feel better with a larger diameter projectile for tissue damage and 2 hole leakage. Entrance and exit, both pumping life from the beasty. There are some nice 223 projectiles made for such occasions. The quick second shot and familiarity of the weapon in the dark may be another option. Either way it should be a real hoot. Be safe and have a wonderful time. The smaller "footballs" piglets are great for eating. Probably better than turkey for Thanksgiving! Geno
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Post by JustShootIt » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:39 pm

Can't speak a lot from personal experience, but I have family in Tx that hog hunt on the regular. My cousins wife uses a 243 on regular basis and effectively kills pigs. They r such an issue there that they often don't even look for them after they shoot them.

Personally, I'd want the biggest caliber I owned....it may not be needed, but it'd be fun to put large holes in piggies.

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Post by guncrank1 » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:44 pm

Night vision mount to a scope base .
Would only recommend a gen 3/4 scope.
My scope is limited to shotgun range.
You can get a spot light that mounts on scopes.

Since you are limited to coyotes at night in KY , my experence is with shotgun mounts.

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Post by guncrank1 » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:46 pm

You can never be under gunned with hogs.

My father hunts them with a .44 mag carbine.
His buddy uses a SKS

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Re: Hog hunt. Go

Post by Toddstang » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:30 pm

Gun?
You don't need no stinkin gun!
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Post by Toddstang » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:34 pm

Seriously, a 223 will take a hog as well. I would be packing an AR and taking multiple shots if laws allowed it there.

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Post by Whootsinator » Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:58 pm

My preferred reasonable hog set up would be a 14.5" - 16" barreled AR with an IR laser and a helmet-mounted PVS-14. Ammo would be 70gr Barnes TSX loadings from either Silver State Armory or ASYM, without question.

Between your given options? Whatever you can most readily find a Barnes TSX or TTSX loaded for would be my caliber choice, with the brightest, farthest throwing rifle mounted light I could find covered with a red or green filter.

LOTS of good hog hunting info can be found here: http://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php ... erformance
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Re: Hog hunt. Go

Post by RecoilSensitive » Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:25 am

go to wyldmans house and check out his rig.

build accordingly
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Post by RecoilSensitive » Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:26 am

or simply do this



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Post by RecoilSensitive » Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:40 pm

that would work just fine.

just get good ammo.
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Post by RecoilSensitive » Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:45 pm

but a lights with filter would work better.
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Re: Hog hunt. Go

Post by Toddstang » Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:51 pm

SeymourSkinner wrote:
Toddstang wrote:Gun?
You don't need no stinkin gun!
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Fuck that. He let it suffer while he filmed it. Waited a solid minute for the second spear. One and done. End it quick.
A lot of hunts end up with similar out comes even with a gun. Unless you get your target in a good kill spot it will run and bleed out.
Im sure the pork chop or bacon you had for breakfast made a lot more noise for a longer period of time. I been to a few slaughter houses and that hog was a pretty humane kill.
As for wild pigs, most people who have problems with them could care less if they suffer. They destroy a lot of land in a short period of time.

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Post by Toddstang » Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:53 pm

I'd go 20" bull barrel with 1:7 twist to reach out some.

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Post by guncrank1 » Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:44 pm

A lot depends on what is legal where you hunting
If a .223 is legal I would use heaviest bullet 69/70 grain.
And a hog will squeal at the lightest touch, so don't worry with that , Coach.

And I know a thing about slaughterhouses myself.

Consider a hog to be a varmint, that you can eat.
They are distructive.
Which KY allowed NV with rifles for night hunting them., but alias they do not.

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Post by Toddstang » Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:49 pm

guncrank1 wrote:A lot depends on what is legal where you hunting
If a .223 is legal I would use heaviest bullet 69/70 grain.
And a hog will squeal at the lightest touch, so don't worry with that , Coach.

And I know a thing about slaughterhouses myself.

Consider a hog to be a varmint, that you can eat.
They are distructive.
Which KY allowed NV with rifles for night hunting them., but alias they do not.
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Post by guncrank1 » Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:50 pm

Seems that in AR only allows daylight shooting of hogs.

http://www.agfc.com/hunting/Pages/Hunti ... alHog.aspx

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Post by guncrank1 » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:00 pm

Are you going on a wild boar hunt on a game farm?
Or on a feral hog hunt?

If you are wild boar I would say a .223 would just piss a big boar off.

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Post by Toddstang » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:08 pm

guncrank1 wrote:Are you going on a wild boar hunt on a game farm?
Or on a feral hog hunt?

If you are wild boar I would say a .223 would just piss a big boar off.
Nope:
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Post by son of liberty » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:21 pm

Ethical HOG killing......LOL

Where I grew up we did not have whitetail , we had pigs. By your teenage years you dont even use a gun anymore, you just let the dogs run them down, belly stick them with a big ass knife, and let the dogs maul them to death.
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Post by Toddstang » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:27 pm

son of liberty wrote:Ethical HOG killing......LOL

Where I grew up we did not have whitetail , we had pigs. By your teenage years you dont even use a gun anymore, you just let the dogs run them down, belly stick them with a big ass knife, and let the dogs maul them to death.
HUnting with knives and spears has grown popular for killing these things.

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Post by guncrank1 » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:37 pm

I am not talking about a feral hog but a wild boar, they are both swine but not the same animal.
Wild boar have a thick carapace and large tusks

A feral hog has a thinner carpace to none and 3/4 inch tusks.

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Post by guncrank1 » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:48 pm

Toddstang wrote:
guncrank1 wrote:Are you going on a wild boar hunt on a game farm?
Or on a feral hog hunt?

If you are wild boar I would say a .223 would just piss a big boar off.
Nope:
[youtube]juiHFT_9TaI[/youtube]

Hahaha , really ??
That was a piglet , no way I would use a air rifle unless it was a large caliber.
Say a .50 custom on a 300 pounder.

I have seen .22 LR not even kill a large domestic hog shot right between the eyes. Bullet bounced off , my Father stuck it with a knife.
And a cash stunner not even stun a hog , right behind the ear.

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Post by son of liberty » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:58 pm

guncrank1 wrote:I am not talking about a feral hog but a wild boar, they are both swine but not the same animal.
Wild boar have a thick carapace and large tusks

A feral hog has a thinner carpace to none and 3/4 inch tusks.

We had wild Boar, I have no real experience with feral hogs though I suspect they are more alike then not. Even in Wild boar there are like 15 types though only a wildlife expert could tell them apart.
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Post by guncrank1 » Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:03 pm

But I only have experence on domestic hogs and have never hunted or killed a feral hog, let alone a razorback.

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Re: Hog hunt. Go

Post by RecoilSensitive » Mon Nov 24, 2014 4:15 pm

Take AR, check mag limit laws if applicable and have fun
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