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Thank you for the replies, I'm thinking discretion really was the better part of valor in this case. All those trees (cedar elm) were "shinny up" propositions at best, be sorta like climbing a utility or flag pole.

The biggest boars seem to have evidence of domestic pig genes, or maybe really big boars all look like that I dunno. This one in the pics looks to have a dished face profile and lop ears. I've seen bigger. One on a local wildlife refuge was so big the head looked small, about like a rhinocerous, with a long flat back like a domestic pig.

Hard to imagine a Glock 29 as being "dull", ten rounds of THAT sort of firepower in a Glock 19-size package?

I'm thinking I have a legitimate use for one.

Well hey, time fer another gun

Birdwatcher

Birdy,
I really like the 29.
The thing is surprisingly shootable for that amount of power.
Quite accurate, also.
The only drawback I can see is the ammo costs are pretty crazy, especially for an autoloader.
I am getting set up to reload for mine, as a matter of fact.

The .454 Casull is ideal for big hogs. I used to have a lease in the Texas hill country, where we hunted for hogs frequently. My buddy and I gave up on the .44 mags- they kill hogs, but not with the authority of the Casull.

My favorite hog hunting pistol is an old IAI Automag IV Longslide in .45 WIN MAG. It rolls the smaller hogs at close range just like a bowling ball.

The Automag IV is the most accurate longrange semi-auto pistol I own. It will keep all 7 shots inside an 8" pie plate at 100 yds with my old eyes. I would love to have the 30 Carbine model.

I prefer to solve the problem with blue and wood, with the occasional transgression to matte stainless.

I'm not familiar with the 180 grain Federal load, but I would have taken that shot with confidence with my 4" Ruger GP-100, .357 Magnum with the 180 grain Cast-Performance WFN handload that I use. I would try to take out both shoulders on a broadside shot.

That .357 will do the trick at 20 yards. Over the years I've killed dozens with a 357. Make the head shot. He ain't going anywhere! Also, shoot at the side of the head. Believe it or not, a frontal shot could deflect. You haven't lived until you unload one from the pickup and have him stand up....pissed.
P.S. Those big ones are the ones you want to give away.

Amen to that advice on avoiding the frontal head shot with a handgun. I once followed up another guy's wounded boar in thick brush. I eventually found the hog -- or rather, he found me -- and I put two quick 44 Mag rounds between his eyes.

And all it did... was pizz him off... mightily.

I placed a third round behind his ear as I sidestepped his charge. That knocked him down, but not out. It took a final round to the back of the head to cool his azz permanently. Safe to say I've never, ever taken that frontal head shot since.

Crap, that was my emergency backup plan

Ya well, some folks is handgun snobs...

Whats next? A Belgian Hi-Power to go with the after dinner mints?

Don't let Ingwe in on this... he'll be back in his Holland & Holland drooling coma state.

At least I don't own anything as lace curtain as a fowler...

Hey, compared to the stockings, and wig that goes with it, the gun itself is a paragon of manliness. Anyhow I was just pretending OK ?

Along with those other guys...

...on weekends....

If you pick up a Glock 29 you'll have to post a photo of the fowler and the Glock together. I get a nosebleed just thinking of the contrast - kinda like a photo of Angelina and Rosie O' sharing a bottle of suntan lotion.

The mental image of that damn near cost me my lunch!

Hahahaha!�

YES!

Count me in as a Handgun Snob!

HP�s, blued steel and gun LEATHER and ( walnut - hmhm, or exotic ) WOOD!

M 29, M 19, HP�s, 1911, Walther PPK, PYTHON, SAA 4 3/4" - I LOVE my guns!

Hermann

Here too--But been going out with a Colt Anaconda lately.

My sentiments exactly. I use Beartooth Bullets 185FNGC with H110 to push 1250+ fps out of a 4" S&W 686. The meplat or flat of the BTB is .280" across - the same as the meplat on the original Keith .44 bullet!

HANDGUNS for FERAL HOGS

Shot hogs for 50years and with handguns around 40 years.Had clean kills then there were others far less professional and a few real heart starters.One cartridge and pistol combination stands out, 29 S&W 8 3/8 inch 44mag.Used a good quantity of cast gas check loads. Best results were 240-300gr. Factory fodder Winchester 240 gr SP were always reliable in controlled expansion.

I still carry a Colt Python (this one is only the second since 1968).My opinion is that the 357 needs a minimum 158gr. The negative point with this cartridge and a 6in barrel is muzzle blast noise machine. No escaping the fact that velocity is required in a 357 for positive kills on large animals. A 8 3/8" 44mag gets the job done with a lesser intensity.For a all day working carry gun the Python is a necessary compromise gun on the ranch.The 29 S&W is always in a vehicle. I look back to my teens and think of hogs killed with a 92 44-40 Winchester and plain base cast. The reloads were probably only around 1000FPS maximum. We used a Lyman tong tool and 200g mould.Powder was probably my fathers Unique or similar. Father was a keen shotgun shooter and reloader. To him rifles were a distraction.

You can most likely make a bit of cash by letting other folks help you out with your hog problem.