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It's important to have both the appropriate footwear as well as a proper blade when perforating porkers!




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GWB

Too good.

One more story. Was about 12 yrs. old and naive to say the least. Left a deer in the crotch of a tree and went to find my dad. Couldn't find him so went back to the deer. Three 200 lbs plus hogs were putting a serious munch on the deer. Thinking they were the ranchers swine I laid my rifle against a tree and yelled at the Hogs with no effect. Then I got mad and booted one so hard in the family jewels that it both hurt my foot and lifted the boar off the ground. That one plowed into the other and they ran off. The third pulled his head out of the carcass with blood in his eyes and looked like he was going to come for me. I grabbed a pine apple sized rock and clouted him on the head which fortunately discouraged him from eating more of the deer or me. I went back to the rancher and told him his hogs ate my deer. He said he didn't have any hogs, Doh! Even with my puny M1 carbine I could have killed all three easily. Praise the luck of the innocents and fools, it has worked for me several times.

Now if I only had my Crocs and a sword.

Having killed my first pig at 8 or 10 years of age with a 22 Hornet, my last a couple years ago with a Schrade and a cool few hundred in between with everything from Maglites to deer rifles. I can honestly say my favorite handgun to use on them was a New England Arms revolver in .22 Magnum. That old pistol laid low many in traps, bayed with dogs and thoroughly deterred several charges wether they were bluffs or not. Before someone decided they needed it worse than I did, it accompanied me afield always.

In east Texas in the late 50's and early 60's, IIRC, they had "open stock" laws, or at least that's what I think they were called. Back then folks branded their cows and horses and "cropped" the ears of their hogs. Then they turned them loose. Livestock would go where they so desired. Did not matter that it was your property they were traipsing on. Back then "feral" hogs were not as prolific in Texas as they are today. They would range up and down the creeks, but typically they were somebodys stock. Now getting close enough to tell whether a hoglets' ear was "cropped" could be might difficult. I learned at an early age about the "three S's".

As an aside, we used to have what we'd call "pig rodeos" when I was a yonker. We'd put a trail of corn leading into a pen, and have a trap door. Usually an apple on a stick lodged between to sticks drove into the ground. When a pig would bite the apple it would come off the stix and would release the trap door. Usually it would be a sow with a bunch of shoats that we caught. We'd climb up on the fence an take turns jumping down and grabbing a shoat. When you did this, the sow would charge you. If you had a hair on your azz, you'd try to hold onto the piglet and clamber back up the fence before the sow got to you. Since the sow's ear was usually cropped, we'd let her go later that day, But we did have a ball.

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GWB

I love to kill pigs

For those interested, I did find this economically priced hunting hanger! Just the thing for dispatching those rogue tuskers!

http://kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=AH4226

No hog camp is complete without one!!! .

The really cool sword is out of stock!!!

http://kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=NS001

I never am anywhere around hunting area with out a gun either. While in camp it may not be on me depending but something is not far away.

I never look for anything without.... have trailed with Tiger quite a bit and had to shoot a few with the 10mm when we found them.

The other thing.. I'm never low on ammo or only what a normal rifle would hold IE 3 or so rounds.. I tend to have almost always a box with me, at least 10 to 20 spare or a full Glock 20 mag of 15...

Have not tried 200xtps yet, totally happy with 180s so far on deer.

. Us, no way. Aftermarket all the way on the triggers. You still ain't gonna have an AD...Can't quite think of what we use right now, but its shorter reset too.. OLD glocks I can deal with. The new supposed 5-6 pound triggers that weight 10-11 on my scale.. nope...

Thanks pard!

JPro,
Exactly why I pack my 45 sidearm in every hunting scenario. I never consider anything to be routine especially when with my girls.

Great show Gee.

I like that hog pose. I think it'd be neat to have a 1/2 mount in that pose.

Thnx

Jerry

About when I first moved to California in the mid 1990's, a local politician in the Central Valley was hog hunting with a bow. He arrowed one, and it charged him, got to him, and chewed him up a lot before he managed to get his pistol out and kill the pig. He needed 80+ stitches, IIRC

Hoping to get loose to ambush a big sow at night here in the next week or two. She's a crafty one, never goes to feeders except at night. Time for the beast AR10 to speak.

Did he get Rabies like Old Yeller in the Movie ?

https://youtu.be/eTzwS38GK1s

Old Yeller got hydrophoby from the wolf!!! Caught the slobberin' fits!

The hog?

Bob, there are no 'Proper Gentlemen' on the fire.... we're all, at least most of us, 'deplorable racist', and proud of it!!!

JPro, We always try to shoot the sow and then wait a while and try to shoot smaller pigs as they come to the downed sow. But, I've never seen a large pig bedded down with a dead one. That's a fat one for sure.

Like you, I have waited a few and gotten a bonus piglet or two when they come back. One of the extra benefits of shooting a sow over a boar. Oddly enough, this big sow had no piglets in that huge gut when a friend took her to the processor. Must have all been corn and rice bran! Those carbs will put it on you.....

My legs would have been way up in the air.

Mayor of Monahans years ago laid his shotgun down on a dove hunt to find a bush and drop a zero. Big hog nailed him and almost killed him.

Glad the op and daughter are ok. That hog they roused was considering charging them. Had it been one person it likely would have.

Well -- y e a h

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Jaguartx ,

Was there a Dr. on the fire who had a buddy leg shanked by a -shot- boar hog ?
Couple/three of years ago ?