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Just watched the first show of wild boar fever XI....Neil Davies from Hornady was shooting a semi auto but I dont see any Semis on Sauers website....any idea what it was?

Sauer makes/ made one....303.
Dunno if theres a newer one. Lemme check.

Euro site still shows model 303 listed

Not familiar with the episode. But being european location possible could be a benelli R1. Looks like a Sauer stylewise.

R1

Looks like the 303 ...wonder what chambering. Interesting to see the Frenchman shooting a 9.3x62....little stout for a rifle that might be shot quickly for follow-ups.
Love the show for the decadence and privilege and the ...."if i win the lottery" aspect
....and them boys can shoot!

It doesn’t take much to kill feral hogs if that is what they were hunting

Id like a merkel helix alpinist.

Youtube it dude, they ain poppin razorbacks

you think you need magnum calibers to kill those boars they are shooting? Or did I read what you posted wrong hookeye

They prefer larger calibers on driven hunts as insurance for shooting moving animals where poor shot placement easily happens

I didn’t see any boars that a 223 or 243 couldn’t have killed easily with good shooting.



Killed a few myself with 243. Never given me any grief.

30-06 be just fine with a 150 Barnes

have a friend in belgium, likes to shoot them with a m1 garand.

CB Shorts.

I was thinking a Garand would be great for that. I lucked out on an all correct H&R for 600.00 from a guy at work. I load 150 partitions with H-4895 for mine. I’ve killed several feral pigs with it.

I think I did, maybe.

Driven mixed-game "circle" hunt, early '80s just a bit north of Bavaria... guy next to me took a big boar just after it broke out, and they needed a tractor with a bucket to retrieve it. I think I remember somebody saying it'd probably go 500.... er... somethings. Dunno if they might have said kilos (which would be really serious), or maybe they translated to pounds for my benefit. It was a big sucker, though. Initially was gonna break out of the circle between me and tHAT next guy... but the the boar took a bit of a turn and went out on that hunter's other side so I didn't get a chance for a shot.

I was using a .308 BLR '81 at the time, I expect it would have worked fine. Can't remember what the successful hunter was using, but the 9.3x62 and the 7x64 were both common at the time.

Lots o' excitement, at the time. That was the same time I was almost -- literally -- run over by a Reh doe breaking out of the circle. She missed me by approximately 6 inches, not sure she ever even noticed that I wasn't a tree... Reh doe weren't on the plan that day, though, so no shots fired... but the situation did very much get my attention!

-Chris

Liebchen throws a ball at 20 to the pound! If more is needed then it’s up to the ol’ Schweinfanger!!!!!

Exactly! .62 caliber ball backed up by 120 gr ffg will do what needs doin’. Besides shooting more than once is just silly

Indianed up on this one to about 40 yards. Good thing I had a cannon that day. 25gr Hornady HP @4100 blew his mind.

I think they said they used a lot of 270's with hornady super performance ammo

They drop a lot of them on the move.
But then they practice that stuff.

Seem to do a pretty good job at it.
Not like theyre rubes getting a tag at walmart

Pigs are the best thing I’ve ever found for running game shooting practice. Main reason is opportunity, I can shoot as many as I want, year around. Take a while to get good when I can only shoot 4 deer a year with a rifle.

Pretty fun to sneak up on a sounder with 12-15 pigs rooting around and cut loose on them. Best I ever did was 9 in a bunch with an AR 15 and 7 with a 1903 Springfield for the boltgun record.

They use typical European rifles, Sauer, Blaser, and Mausers in standard calibers, 30-06 popular, as well as the 7 & 8x57, 9,3x62 etc. I have been on many drive hunts and have shot many boar, I typically used a Blaser R93 in 300 WinMag or 9,3x62. Like noted above, to limit wounding and wasting time searching for them with marginal hits. They do a lot of practice on the range, shooting Running Boar.

The actual drive hunt is often hit or miss depending on stand location, I mean, often you see nothing while your neighbor shoots 5 boar, etc. But, many times I was on the "hit" location, lol, and I sure do miss it!

Here's a clip of how Running Boar is shot, this from the 2015 German Nationals, and I was fortunate to shoot a perfect score, Waidmannsheil, Dom.