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Ronald Reagan
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You could have borrowed my Tikka.  Yea, I know. I wanted to bloody my AR, but thanks anyway. I might have to get one some day. I've got to let my credit card cool off for a while. After the trip, I went out and bought a fancy shotgun so I could keep up with you.
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Bring it next year. I'll bring the clay pigeons.
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Looks like you all had fun. Pig shooting is fun. They do scurry around, especially when they are caught in trap pen. They go crazy when you start shooting!!
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We used to have to put double high cattle panels on our pens when I trapped for the state! Like they say go to shooting and they will climb to the moon if they can get a toe hold
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Rem 91/2
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Touch the lands with a 154g Hornady spire point
Accurate!
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This is what made me change: I first started aiming behind the shoulder. I thought pigs were tough, because a lot would run off. I changed to head shots. Most were successful, but I obviously missed some. I knocked one down, but it got up quickly and ran off. Two weeks later I shot a pig from the same stand. It was the same, size shape and color as the one that ran. It had a scar/crease in front between the eyes. It was almost dark so I aimed at the shoulder. Dead pig. I star aiming to take out a shoulder and what's between. That was several years ago. Since then I've killed every pig I've shot at. Captdavid
"It's not how hard you hit 'em, it's where you hit 'em." The 30-06 will, with the right bullet, successfully take any game animal in North America up to 300yds.
If you are a hunter, and farther than that, get closer!
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Going to Burnet this weekend, I hope to catch more pigs. Gonna bow hunt some also. I like the way they squeal when stuck.
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WE actually switched from AR's to shotguns with buckshot too many richocetts and it was faster, as the whole point was to get as much lead into the pen, in the shortest amount of time anyway, esp if there were 12 or 15 in there!!
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Done in lots of unpenned pigs with shotgun and buckshot.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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That's the most fun you can have (with your cloths on), there is! Open up with a 7 shot semi auto with various buckshot, watch the piecies fly ears here tail there GOD IT IS FUN!!!!!!!
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I had 7 or 8 in pen once. Used my muzzle loader on them. That was fun. That Savage blew big holes in them. Was a little slow. A couple of guys whined about shooting pigs during deer season. Silencer fixed that.
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WE actually switched from AR's to shotguns with buckshot too many richocetts and it was faster, as the whole point was to get as much lead into the pen, in the shortest amount of time anyway, esp if there were 12 or 15 in there!! I've posted this before. My hunting buddy has a unique method for killing penned hogs. He walks up on the trap, stops before they start running around, usually 15 yds or so. He uses a scoped .17 HMR with FMJ's (cheap plastic Salvage). He visualized a line between their eyes, aims 1" above midline, lines up the target to miss the pen wire and fires. Pig hits the ground, eyes poked out on stems, weird looking. No squeeling, little or no blood. He waits for the next opportunity, takes his time, kills them all. All the blood, squeeling, shooting, running, confusion is avoided. And, he doesn't mess up the trap with gore and blood everywhere such that they won't come back. His killing trap is still pretty neat and tidy. DF
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WE actually switched from AR's to shotguns with buckshot too many richocetts and it was faster, as the whole point was to get as much lead into the pen, in the shortest amount of time anyway, esp if there were 12 or 15 in there!! I've posted this before. My hunting buddy has a unique method for killing penned hogs. He walks up on the trap, stops before they start running around, usually 15 yds or so. He uses a scoped .17 HMR with FMJ's (cheap plastic Salvage). He visualized a line between their eyes, aims 1" above midline, lines up the target to miss the pen wire and fires. Pig hits the ground, eyes poked out on stems, weird looking. No squeeling, little or no blood. He waits for the next opportunity, takes his time, kills them all. All the blood, squeeling, shooting, running, confusion is avoided. And, he doesn't mess up the trap with gore and blood everywhere such that they won't come back. His killing trap is still pretty neat and tidy. DF ssshhhh now, you may feel a little stick. 
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WE actually switched from AR's to shotguns with buckshot too many richocetts and it was faster, as the whole point was to get as much lead into the pen, in the shortest amount of time anyway, esp if there were 12 or 15 in there!! I've posted this before. My hunting buddy has a unique method for killing penned hogs. He walks up on the trap, stops before they start running around, usually 15 yds or so. He uses a scoped .17 HMR with FMJ's (cheap plastic Salvage). He visualized a line between their eyes, aims 1" above midline, lines up the target to miss the pen wire and fires. Pig hits the ground, eyes poked out on stems, weird looking. No squeeling, little or no blood. He waits for the next opportunity, takes his time, kills them all. All the blood, squeeling, shooting, running, confusion is avoided. And, he doesn't mess up the trap with gore and blood everywhere such that they won't come back. His killing trap is still pretty neat and tidy. DF No no no. It can't be done that way. It would never work and it makes way to much sense to do it that way. (its the way I do it too, but 22 instead of 17... and with a can these days) I"m fairly sure you might be able to bring a gator to the surface and pop one too without all that extra tusssle, but I've never seen it done so may be wrong there. Who would ever think about doing it slow and calm... LOL. I got "shot" once with frags from a 22... an old timer that I figured knew better, got panicky with about 5 in a pen and shot kind of my direction and hit the wire... I got frags in my arm. No biggy. But I expected much more of an old timer. ....more common sense etc...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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People get excited sometimes. I've been hit by birdshot a few times.
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Such a bizare hog killing could get out of hand. Makes one wonder, who's more excited, shooters or hogs. Gotta be a better way... DF
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There are guys that will get in there and get them by the hind legs. Not me!
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I had 7 or 8 in pen once. Used my muzzle loader on them. That was fun. That Savage blew big holes in them... How much fun is shooting fish in a barrel?
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
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I wouldn't touch the disease ridden, $hit piles when they are dead let alone alive, one ever bites you, you might just as well put the gun to your head, be quicker than a lingering death, from the $hit those disease ridden vermin carry!!!
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