These things are mutating and this will get out of control unless we get serious about the hog problem.
Read the story and watch the vid here...
Sidnote: These animals have no natural predators once they get over a certain size. Plus they will eat anything. Snakes, rats, even smaller mammals are all prey items for these pests.
Hunter with assault rifle...
ReplyDeleteyou run into a 500 pound sow with piglets in the back 40 and all you have is a bolt action, you'll be asking God himself why you didn't bring your AR.
Deletebesides, most people hunt with AR's these days....at least down south they do.
Well those good old times hunters were able to put down an rhino or elephant with one bullet from bolt actions or classic single shoots. My uncle is old hunter ( 95 years and for the most of his life he hunts in forest ) and believe me when he saw a document in TV about rich "hunters" who use assault rifles he said that they are not hunters but murderers. True hunter will kill with only one shoot, one bullet, one kill, like sniper. If he miss the animal will run, it's a fair play.
DeleteI carry an AR hunting with a single magazine blocked to accept only five shots.
DeleteI rarely carry more than ten rounds total.
A Full grown Boar Hawg is a very determined foe when you are trying to kill it, some are hunted and killed with Bowie knives (ted Nugent style) others require multiple shots to bring it down sportsman or not.
Dangerous or large game animals must be brought down, one shot or five shots what ever it takes, no lion or bear hunter ever said, "I wish I had taken less ammo with me."
With the Winchester M-94 I usually load one shot but carry at least five.
To be a true "ASSAULT RIFLE" The hunter's weapon must be full auto capable which I would say is not a criteria of any AR's used hunting.
The pistol grip, bayonet stud, flash suppressor and scarey look do not contribute to killing the animal more humanly. Nor does a thirty round magazine loaded with five shots or less make this weapon an "ASSAULT RIFLE" being used to hunt.
Last but not least, the letters A. and R. stand for Armalite Rifle not "ASSAULT RIFLE" which is simply the name of the company that invented the type.
I understand you, but still for whole my life my uncle always say to me that if you can't find and put a boar ( when he was rather younger he hunt mainly boars, now for many years they are almost extincting in region when he live, poachers ) with single shoot, don't go to the forest and don't pretend that you are a hunter. But seriously, how many of "hunters" you saw you can call a real hunter not only a dude with some fancy rifle ?
DeleteYour beating a dead hog here Buddy, bird hunting limits a shotgun to three shots no matter if it's a double barrel or a riot pump that can take ten or more shots.
DeleteSimply carrying a multishot weapon hunting does not mean the hunter will use more than one shot.
A game animal that spooks suddenly just as the hunter fires may be wounded and a quick second shot may be needed, sometimes more.
The Hunters in Alabama use dogs and shotguns, loaded with five shots buck and slugs and when a deer is jumped it's moving very fast through thick brush the hunters take quick snap shots as many as it takes to bring the venison home because the deer is rarely standing still awaiting your single well aimed shot. This is hunting other than stand or blind, stalking and beating the very thick southern bush filled with saw briars and such.
Not every man or woman hunter is Davy Crockett or Calamity Jane able to stand on their head and shoot one magic bullet right between the game animals eyes.
Some deer are found standing out in the open for that single sniper grade shot but in this area they are usually found at ranges of 100 yards at max and as close as ten feet.
Now, this is OT BUT do you have a problem with Bow Hunters carrying four or more game arrows while hunting? shooting more than one arrow at a game animal?
Bow is still a single shoot weapon, you can carry as many arrow as you want but you can shoot only one and that shoot must be a kill shoot. Again I fully understand your point, but still I was rise with that idea of one shoot, one kill for hunters to be hunters. And when I see dudes with automatic weapons or even that AR's with all those tac gear something in me just say "this is wrong, this is not the hunters way". But as you said, maybe I'm just got that old school, Davy Crockett point of view.
DeleteShas, I understand, your cool guy Bubba. Oner shot one kill is a professional's way to shoot and hunt.
Deletegood point about the 4x4 and a winch. still. a quarter ton of hog is alot of hog to field dress solo.
Deletegreat points about the firearms too Zebra. people in the US don't get it so i'm not surprised someone outside doesn't...especially when they live under pretty strict, california style gun laws.
Umm "Well those good old times hunters were able to put down an rhino or elephant with one bullet from bolt actions or classic single shoots."
DeleteThose Bolt actions more often than not put the AR to shame from a firepower standpoint. That is why they are sniper rifles in the military... Unless it is an AR-10!
I don't see a problem here. I see a cheap supply of Iowa Chops.
ReplyDeleteyeah i was wondering about that part of it. this guy must be one helluva man. you got to gut a boar quick or else the meat will get ruined. i don't know he was able to pull that off solo but if he was he's a better guy than me....unless he carries a block and tackle with him to the woods.
DeleteWell......he did carry an AR perhaps he has a 4x4 and a winch.
DeleteA loose pig can breed and produce wild hog piglets after one generation.
ReplyDeleteThey revert to wild hogs very, very fast and will eat anything even a human.
I understand one wild sow escaped a farm before birthin' her piglets and that sow's grand piglets went wild and turned into some very large and wild hogs just that quickly.
That may look like an AR-15 clone, but it's a .308 which is a normal American Game cartridge.
ReplyDeleteSurely to the Hog Gods no one seriously hunts wild 500 pound hogs with a 5.56 x 45 mm bullet!
DeleteThat is a 7.62 x 51 NATO magazine though.
I don't see a real difference between an AR and a Browning BAR or Remington 750 other than magazine size. Though my family prefers Bolt actions and lever guns, the folks we hunt with almost always hunt with semi-autos like BARs and Rem 750s. Lot's of dense brush, trees with narrow shooting lanes allow very little time for working a bolt for follow-up shots.
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't doubt the seriousness of wild hogs, I have doubts as to the size of the problem or at least the willingness to deal with it. When farmers and landowners are charging for hog hunts on their property, it isn't quite the nuisance that they claim. I can understand a small fee for hunting, but some of these landowners are asking for hundreds of dollars x-amount of days.
there are a ton of Midwestern hunters who wouldn't mind driving down for a week with their deer rifles and taking home some bacon and sausage, but not if they have to pay hundreds more for hunting packages. Those hogs aren't like South Dakota pheasants or Canadian fish, so charging a premium to hunt them while they tear up a farmer's crops is silly.
Hog hunting can be as dangerous as hunting a cape buffalo, they sometimes are boars mean, agile, mobile and hostile.
DeleteSome could be rabid.
I think I would like hunting South Dakota Pheasants and Taking Canadian fish though.
The Hogs damage the hell out of south Ga, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana lots of farms and agriculture,their wallows cause erosion and they eat the native animals and game of of house and home.
Stored grain and veggies, landfills they get into everything.
There is no difference in the power of a BAR in 308 Win and an M-14 in 7.62x51 NATO take out all but the same load of ammo and it's the same.
One is sporter one is a military look a like sporter.
I might add in the more rural areas these critters have been known to raid graveyards located in the woods.
DeleteAnd there is that old West Virginia saying of, "Went ta shit and the hawgs ate him."
Great Metaphore for the F-35 program! Looks like an F-35. Is out of control. Eats everything in its path.
ReplyDeleteWell so far everything BUT enemy or adversary aircraft.
DeleteSalomão:
ReplyDeleteUma variedade similar aqui no Brasil, no máximo 60 quilos.
Andam em bandos, são perigosos.
Se caça em cima de árvore, nunca se atira no primeiro senão cercam a árvore.
Se estiver no chão e atirar no primeiro, você vira comida dos outros.
A carne é boa, tem menos gordura que porco criado, o cheiro é o mesmo, o couro é excelente para coldres.
:-)