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...You have more than 1 hog...
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No doubt about it. Only the older boars will hang by themselves. If you're seeing a smallish hog, look around and you're bound to find the drove. Any projectile can ricochet so I wouldn't be too concerned about that, just know your backstop. Like's been said, shot placement is what it's all about with these overly shielded beasts
I would never purposely hog hunt with a pistol but each to their own. I prefer something with a little more heft...
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To be absolutely sure, use a 454 cassul.
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I carried my .454 Cassul a couple of times while hog hunting and then I realized the error of my ways. If you are hog hunting you need to be able to listen for them, as well as smell them, and see them. Firing a .454 without ear protection is not foolish, it is stupid. Hog hunting is fast action and you have to be ready to shoot when the shot presents itself. Trying to put ear protection in place is too slow if you are on foot. If you are in a stand and have time, use a rifle.
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Pre-Curing feral Hogs with Sodium Nitrite ? ? ?
Sodium Nitrite is already in our bacon, ham, and hot dogs …
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Texas testing poison to battle feral hogs
To combat the problem, TPWD has launched a test program to potentially use a so-called “toxicant” of sodium nitrite in feeders to destroy the wild pigs.
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Sodium Nitrite
What is sodium nitrite?
Sodium nitrite is a salt and an anti-oxidant that is used to cure meats like ham, bacon and hot dogs. Sodium nitrite serves a vital public health function: it blocks the growth of botulism-causing bacteria and prevents spoilage. Sodium nitrite also gives cured meats their characteristic color and flavor.
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The Nitrate and Nitrite Myth: Another Reason not to Fear Bacon
It may surprise you to learn that the vast majority of nitrate/nitrite exposure comes not from food, but from endogenous sources within the body. (1) In fact, nitrites are produced by your own body in greater amounts than can be obtained from food, and salivary nitrite accounts for 70-90% of our total nitrite exposure. In other words, your spit contains far more nitrites than anything you could ever eat.
When it comes to food, vegetables are the primary source of nitrites. On average, about 93% of nitrites we get from food come from vegetables. It may shock you to learn that one serving of arugula, two servings of butter lettuce, and four servings of celery or beets all have more nitrite than 467 hot dogs. (2) And your own saliva has more nitrites than all of them! So before you eliminate cured meats from your diet, you might want to address your celery intake. And try not to swallow so frequently
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I think that your G20 would be fine. get some of those ear plugs with the valves in them. they aren't expensive, and you can hear right up until you shouldn't. Chop up a kydex holster or cut off the bottom half of a leather holster for the comp on your Glock. Personally, being a retired weenie who took all his lumps earlier in life, I use a .45-70 with Leverevolution 325 grains at something over 2000 fps.
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Thank you to 3Dots for posting aiming points. I really appreciate that.
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Personally, being a retired weenie who took all his lumps earlier in life, I use a .45-70 with Leverevolution 325 grains at something over 2000 fps.
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Don't you take a few lumps on your shoulder every time you pull the trigger on that load?
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Will buckshot penetrate the gristle plate?
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I've used it when a client wounded a hog and I had to go into the chaparral after it. But that was at closer range than I like to remember! (PS DO NOT tell you wife about those!)
"If it were me, I's spend $300 or so for a trap. trap them and shoot them. That's the only way you're gonna put a dent in it."
The Finger Lakes area south of San Francisco had a large pig problem in the public parks. Tried trapping, shooting, poison. The pigs learned. Ended up costing about $2K per pig (AND they came back in force within 5 years)--Google Dr. Reginald Barrett==he has many articles and worked on Dye Creek Ranch as a guide while doing his MS and PhD. Real nice guy!
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The State of Texas says you can kill them any way necessary... you can legally use Machine guns, Helicopters, Thermal and even Tannerite to rid us of these zombies. Currently we eliminate 20% of the population a year. To keep the population at its current size, we would need to eliminate of 70% of the of these zombies a year.
I would hate to run into this one with a pistol:
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Handgun hunting hogs (and things a little larger)
One picture worth a 1,000 ...
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^^^^^THAT is a crying shame.
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Yeah! Red dots are for sissies.
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35 Rem:
The longest handgun shot I've ever made was on a hog at 300 yards==using a Contender in 35 Rem
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I've never hunted hogs but if I did I'd probably go with a my Model 57 or my Ruger SBH with 10.5" bull barrel in .44mag. With either I'd also pack my Buck 651 "Pigsticker".
It was designed for hog hunting in Australia and I believe has been used there with much success plus it just looks very cool and it's a Buck.
Same knife compared to a standard Buck Nighthawk.
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I wish I lived there being retired I'd hunt them 24/7.
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In my experience wild pigs die easy. Any hit in the boiler room kills. Mostly now I use a 223 with Barnes copper bullets (thank you California Condor). Anything 9mm 38 Special up is fine. Lots die from 22 mag. At my cousins in Texas I saw a 100 pound sow killed with a 17 mag rim fire. The only time I have ever heard of pigs getting agressive is when they are cornered.
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