.44 Magnum pistol for Boar Hogs
what do you guys think? Should it do the job at under 40 yards, and where is the perfect bullet placement in your opinion?
woodyd
woodyd
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As Montgomery Gentry would say...Hell Yeah!! At 40 yds with a 44 Mag. and a decent shot my friend you're filling your freezer with the Other White Meat! I would aim for just behind the front shoulder area, but I don't hunt alot of Hogs. Works for Whitetails there.
Justice through Valor 1*0 -
Should work, and prove to be a lot of fun. I have a smith 29 with scope that I bought for just that but never used though, so I can't speak from experience. If you have a lot of brush up where you are, a nice 12 ga pump with 00 buck works well. That's what they use out by the big lake here. [8D]
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I agree with teamblue. Plenty of power at that distance.Don't shoot it in the head, I swear their skulls are just about bullet proof. If he's coming straight at you with speed, be close to a tree that you can get up into real fast. When they get pissed off, they can really tear you up if they get a hold of you! Plus, when they're running at you, they don't present a very big target area. Happy Pork Hunting to you!
Bubba " There is no such thing as having too many guns!"0 -
We run 'em with dogs--use pit bulls to take 'em down and hold 'em till we can tie their legs. Then drag 'em behind a horse to a trailer and load 'em up. We call it "hog'en and dog'en."
The really big boars, like over 350 pounds, a 22lr behind the ear will turn out their lights.
Rafter-S0 -
Make sure you use a bullet meant for penetration so that the bullet gets to the vitals. A bullet that expands too easily can be stopped by their built in bullet resistant gristle. 0 -
Your .44 mag is more than enough for
a hog,but as has been said,placement
is crucial regardless of what your using.
My experiences with wild hogs tells me
that in the ear,or just behind the ear
will drop'em like a rock.Just behind the
shoulder will work too,but you will probably
have to go find it,and you will lose more
of that wonderful meat.If your looking him
square in the eyes,then right between the eyes
it is(have put down many in traps w/a .22 like that).
The main thing to remember is:If your out in the brush
with'em,they already have the advantage.Be safe,they are
mean and very fast.Be close to a tree or something to climb
if it becomes nesseccary.Your not going to out run them.Ever
see the movie "Old Yeller"?
I wouldn't be out there alone either.IMHO
Happy Hunting
BW
IT'S WHAT PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT MAKES THEM AFRAID.0 -
I have taken servral with the .44 mag revolver and carbine. It is plenty. I have also taken some with the new .17 HMR. It did an unbeliveable job on them. 0 -
It'll work for you, but as has been stated you need to use caution. I recall an incident near here a few years ago where a fella came back from squirrel hunting in the river bottoms and told everyone how he had shot a big hog with his .44 Mag. and it had no effect. This guy said he stumbled into a mess of hogs and ended up having to climb a tree to escape them. He dropped his long gun in order to make it up the tree and used the Super Blackhawk he carried on his hip to shoot the biggest one. He hit him from above in the upper back, just behind the shoulder blades, but the boar ran off like he was uninjured. This fella was known to embellish his tales sometimes and most who heard the story assumed he had missed or didn't hit the pig solid.
About a week later a friend of mine using a .270 took a big boar with a pus oozing wound up on his back from this same area of bottomland. When he dressed it out he recovered a spent .44 bullet.
Hogs can be very tough and unpredictable. Small calbers combined with good bullet placement have taken lots of hogs over the years, but I'm not going to rely on it when my feet are on the ground.0 -
Txs,
That story made me remember a 200lb.sow I killed a few years
ago.I got her clean(behind the ear w/.243).It was getting dark
so my buddy and I just did a quick field dress and headed for
the house.When we got her hung up and started to clean her up
better,I found a big,nasty mass between her shoulders.When I cut
it out for a better look,it was full of dirt,leaves,etc,and 8"
worth of arrow,broadhead and all!My bud had arrowed it 6 months
earlier straight down from his tree blind.The entrance wound had
healed over and you would have never guessed it by the way she acted.
Their tough alright!
BW
IT'S WHAT PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT MAKES THEM AFRAID.0 -
You fellows have some nice size hogs where you all live! The ones I see down here in Florida, out at the Pratt Whitney plant, don't even come close to 350 lbs. Most look to be around 125 to 150 lbs. with some of the little ones in the 75 lb. range. No wonder your worried if a 44 is enough! [8D]
Fight Crime, Shoot First0
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