I went to BassPro last weekend to pick up some cheap long sleeve camo tee shirts that I wear when hunting. Our archery season is open and temp is reaching 100 degrees during the day before the afternoon rain so lots of people were out looking to buy hot weather hunting clothes and rain gear.
After picking up couple tees I walked over to the gun counter to see what was on their racks and came across three guys talking about hog hunting. Evidently two were experienced hog hunters and the third one was novice hunter and wanted to go try hog hunting. Two guys were giving some pointers to the novice about choose a appropriate hog hunting rifle.
They were describing how wild boars had cartilage shield around the neck and shoulder that was almost bullet proof and stop even some rifle cartridges. They said to choose a caliber that had enough power to kill the hog immediately with one as a wounded hog would charge you and tear you up real good with his razer sharp tusk. They said hogs were about the toughest animal to put down with one shot.
One suggested 30-06 rifle as minimum with 300 Win Mag being better choice if he could handle the recoil. Other one suggested 45-70 lever action rifle loaded with "hot" custom load. Just then one of the salesman I know walked up on us and said hello to me and asked what I use to hunt hogs at my place...loud enough for other 3 guys to hear. I told him I have used everything from my Springfield 1903A3 and M1 Garand in 30-06 and Marlin 1895 in 45-70 down to my CZ 452 in 22 magnum but these days I mostly use my AR15 carbine or pistol in 223/5.56 or 300 BlackOut as I usually shoot from close range...sometimes as close as 20 feet. For trapped hogs I dispatch them with a shot from single action 22lr revolver.
One of the fella commented that real hog hunters don't use "poodle bullets" because you would have to unload an entire banana clip to kill one and the salesman said well maybe but this fellow kills more hogs on his property in a season than most people do in their lifetime so he might know a little more than rest of us. The novice then asked how large was the biggest hog I 've ever shot and I told him about 300 pounds and all it took was one shot from my Remington model 7 in 243 Winchester caliber from 280 steps or about 260 yards. Then he asked me what I would choose to hunt hogs if I was limited to one rifle so I told him a light weight bolt action rifle in 243 Winchester with 1-10" twist rate topped off with a good quality 2-7x variable power scope.
As he was looking at bolt action rifles behind the counter another young fella walked up next to him and asked what kinds of hunting he was going to do and he replied that he wanted to go hog hunting. The young fella pointed to a Savage rifle in 7mm magnum and told him he would need something like that for hogs...
I laughed a little and walked out to food court to get a ice cream cone
After picking up couple tees I walked over to the gun counter to see what was on their racks and came across three guys talking about hog hunting. Evidently two were experienced hog hunters and the third one was novice hunter and wanted to go try hog hunting. Two guys were giving some pointers to the novice about choose a appropriate hog hunting rifle.
They were describing how wild boars had cartilage shield around the neck and shoulder that was almost bullet proof and stop even some rifle cartridges. They said to choose a caliber that had enough power to kill the hog immediately with one as a wounded hog would charge you and tear you up real good with his razer sharp tusk. They said hogs were about the toughest animal to put down with one shot.
One suggested 30-06 rifle as minimum with 300 Win Mag being better choice if he could handle the recoil. Other one suggested 45-70 lever action rifle loaded with "hot" custom load. Just then one of the salesman I know walked up on us and said hello to me and asked what I use to hunt hogs at my place...loud enough for other 3 guys to hear. I told him I have used everything from my Springfield 1903A3 and M1 Garand in 30-06 and Marlin 1895 in 45-70 down to my CZ 452 in 22 magnum but these days I mostly use my AR15 carbine or pistol in 223/5.56 or 300 BlackOut as I usually shoot from close range...sometimes as close as 20 feet. For trapped hogs I dispatch them with a shot from single action 22lr revolver.
One of the fella commented that real hog hunters don't use "poodle bullets" because you would have to unload an entire banana clip to kill one and the salesman said well maybe but this fellow kills more hogs on his property in a season than most people do in their lifetime so he might know a little more than rest of us. The novice then asked how large was the biggest hog I 've ever shot and I told him about 300 pounds and all it took was one shot from my Remington model 7 in 243 Winchester caliber from 280 steps or about 260 yards. Then he asked me what I would choose to hunt hogs if I was limited to one rifle so I told him a light weight bolt action rifle in 243 Winchester with 1-10" twist rate topped off with a good quality 2-7x variable power scope.
As he was looking at bolt action rifles behind the counter another young fella walked up next to him and asked what kinds of hunting he was going to do and he replied that he wanted to go hog hunting. The young fella pointed to a Savage rifle in 7mm magnum and told him he would need something like that for hogs...
I laughed a little and walked out to food court to get a ice cream cone
