Fishing for pigs?

[Valveman]

I assume you are shooting slugs? I would think a slug would be pretty effective.

Slugs, 00 Buck, 30-06, 223, 22, bow and arrow, we shoot them with whatever we have in our hands. I have caught them in traps, ran over them with the truck, even caught some small ones with my bare hands. We have a German Shepard that will hold one by the ear until you walk up and take it away from him. I even slapped a big one on the butt as he walked by the tree I was behind. I think the Indians called that "counting coup".

Fried, grilled, baked, diced, sliced, chopped, pulled, ground, BBQed, smoked, stuffed, wrapped, glazed, brazed, etc.. It is a very lean meat and taste really good, just don't try to eat any of those big stinky bores. The little bores are good and a sow of any size is fine. I have made some thick pork chops out of 300# sow, and baked a 15 pounder in a turkey pan. A 60-80 pounder is great on a spit with an apple in its mouth.

I know a lot of people would like them eradicated, but I don't think that is possible. We have just learned to really like pork.

 

[STx]

Correction. We found the pig a little bit ago. Turns out he made a perfect shot, but the bullet deflected off of the shoulder and gutted the hog. We didn't find any blood at the spot where she was shot, we didn't hear the impact, and she ran off like she was fine. We looked around last night, but didn't find any sign at all. Then today, we went back and looked around a little farther out and into the thicker jungle. His wife found the pig about 200 yards from where he shot her, and nowhere near the direction that she ran off.

280 didn't get the job done. I don't know the weight of the bullet, but mentioned to him that it was too light and it didn't perform very well. That pig should have died right where it was standing.

On the good side, there is one less pig out there, and after she was shot, more pigs showed up to the corn and ate it all. Tonight Karen will be out there with her 7mm-08 waiting for them to show up again.

It's a good idea with pigs to shoot a little further behind the shoulder than you would with a dear. Their vitals sit back a little further but, more importantly, that shoulder can develop a heck of a "shield" over time. I always try to Q-Tip mine. Shoot them in the ear and the fall down dead right there. I don't like blood tracking.

I trap them when they show up now (of course, I build and sell hog traps). I've had 2 this year, the first 2 we've ever seen on this place. Both boars, the first 112# and the second 153#. Took them to the buyer (big boars are nasty) and got $45 and $65 respectively.

 

[ultrarunner]

I heard Oscars shirt tail relative are in town and they are real pigs... nothing someone as fine as Oscar is would want to be associated with.

We are starting to get wild pigs closer in to homes in the SF Bay Area... lions and foxes seem to follow the wild turkey population.

OFF TOPIC... the Blue Angles flew in last night... a week ago SF was in the 90's and clear as could be... now in the 60's and overcast... just heard them overhead as I write.

 

[prichard]

Is it military week? I was there the week before it last year. I think we flew out on the beginning weekend.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep... Fleet Week.

Some years it has been over the top as in outstanding... SF Bay Area did have a huge military presence for many decades... now, all but a legacy.

I remember years ago one of the Angels flew up Market Street and people were looking down from the higher floors... cool factor times a thousand.

It was also almost expected to fly under the Golden Gate... no more.

A few years back I was out in the yard at eye level with one of the pilots... we waved and he waved back!!! the kids thought it was the best ever... he was really that close to the bluff where we are situated at 500 feet about sea level.

My apologies to Eddie.... for diverting.

I hear the Blue Angles like roasted pig luau style.

 

[dragoneggs]

Yep... Fleet Week.

Some years it has been over the top as in outstanding... SF Bay Area did have a huge military presence for many decades... now, all but a legacy.

I remember years ago one of the Angels flew up Market Street and people were looking down from the higher floors... cool factor times a thousand.

It was also almost expected to fly under the Golden Gate... no more.

A few years back I was out in the yard at eye level with one of the pilots... we waved and he waved back!!! the kids thought it was the best ever... he was really that close to the bluff where we are situated at 500 feet about sea level.

My apologies to Eddy.... for diverting.

I hear the Blue Angles like roasted pig luau style.

Now I have to chime in... the Blue Angels are still an annual ritual combined with Seafair Week in Seattle. They still get pretty low to the boats (a floating party) on Lake Washington. They shut down the floating bridge and allow pedestrians to walk out for great view. I remember as a kid I would climb on top of my parent's roof (others on their roofs too) and wave to the single pilot and he would wave back too! They used to fly much lower over residential areas and everyone loved it. Maybe the biggest reason I ended up in the Aerospace industry! :thumbsup: Okay back to a more 'Boaring' discussion. :laughing:

 

[ultrarunner]

I figure as long as pigs or fishing or dam is mentioned Eddie will treat the sidebar discussions as water over the dam...

 

[gsganzer]

I think a 280 would be more than enough. The problem was probably the bullet selection. Pigs always surprise me with how tough it is to get a through and through shot.

I had a huge boar with big tusks that I was getting game cam pictures of. One late morning I caught him at my feeder and I popped him perfectly with my .308 (using some cheap Winchester white box ammo), after I shot he ran straight back through the woods towards the dry creek. I couldn't find a blood trail, but was convinced I hit him solidly right on the shoulder. I looked around for him for hours, before finally giving up. A few weeks later, I went out looking for him again and found his bones, turned out I hit him solid and when he ran for the creek, he crawled up under one of the overhanging banks so I never saw him. Without a blood trail to follow, It was hard to tell where he went. Did yours stay in a straight line? Or did he just go farther than you expected? That's a pretty good distance to go for 200 yds.

I've been surprised with how little of a blood trail they can leave, even if you get an exit wound. Like the PH's in Africa always say, you need an exit wound for tracking. The entrance wound always seals up, the exit wound leaves the blood trail. That's always been my experience too. I always shoot the Barnes TTSX bullets, because I've had very few instances where they failed to leave an exit wound. Most of the other "monometal" bullets give similar results.

I swore off using cup and core bullets after I shot a blackbuck broadside at 50yds with a weatherby .257 and a Nosler 100gr. Accubond bullet. I found the bullet under the skin on the off-side. The insides were like a hand grenade had been used and almost all the torso meat was wasted. I was really surprised my shot didn't penetrate the off shoulder and was really pissed at all the wasted meat.

 

[ultrarunner]

I don't know anything about hunting wild pigs...

Wouldn't a shot to the skull be the preferred method for most hunting as the meat part would be bullet free?

I think the SF PD had issues taking down a tiger that was lose and it was reported head shots finally stopped it.

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[roadhunter]

I figure as long as pigs or fishing or dam is mentioned Eddy will treat the sidebar discussions as water over the dam...

Or mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk. Oh wait that was a song.

And yes a .280 is more than enough to kill a pig. As is a .243 or .223 with the correct bullet. People shoot elk with a .243 so anything that will kill an elk will do the job on a "wild" pig. The bullet selection today is nothing short of amazing.