TXAoudadKlr
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I would have just got my pictures, taken the head and not let the rest of it lay for the buzzards and coyotes.
Even the big one's if you quarter them out, bone out the rest and let it sig in cold brine water for 24-48hrs before processing it can still be made to taste and smell pretty good.I would have just got my pictures, taken the head and not let the rest of it lay for the buzzards and coyotes.
While I have never shot a 1000 lb hog the largest was 531#. The main caliber's I use are .17HMR suppressed, 223 suppressed, crossbow, and occasionally 308 when I'm sitting out on the fields shooting at longer range 300-500 yards.
I take head, ear, eye, neck shots on hogs and they are DRT. Crossbow is into the heart lung and all only go 50 yards max.
While I will never begrudge a shooter choosing whatever caliber they want, I see no reason to buy into the fad calibers when I can use a 17 HMR or 22LR 50 yards away and make DRT kill shots for $.05-.22 per shot. Now if I'm not meat hunting and in eradication mode then I bust out the 223 and spray and let run away for the turkey vultures, yotes and fox to feast away and then hunt them at night.
For me, 458 is a dick measuring contest caliber and way overrated. In real world it is a mortar and all my friends that brag on its accuracy change their tune out in the field when they miss everything. Look at the ballistics. how much drop at 100-300 yards. My 50 cal muzzle loader has better ballistics with 300gr load then the 458 socom.
Day, Night, whenever, if one of them starts squealing from being wounded things can get awfully exciting in a hurry.TX did they give any info on that monster. There is a time and place for all calibers. We were guests for one night and given the task to kill as many "FACTORIES" as possible. Instead of sitting in a blind or the edge of a field killing one hog we chose to cover the whole 1000 acres. When you pull up on them at night they do not run but become very nervous. Therefore, no head shots. When you shoot even with a silencer they scatter. The second and third shots are just hit them anywhere. That is where the 308,458,600 or whatever you have that will take down a gut shot hog as soon as possible. The large calibers would have allowed humane kills and helped us to quickly find more hogs. I would not want dead hogs laying all over my property so we tried to clean up. We wanted to show these to the land owner to prove we were safe and effective. Hopefully we will get invited back.
Yep, it was a purpose built cartridge and flat shooting wasn't part of the package.I was more after the platform essentially a semi auto 45-70. I know it drops like crazy. Then again I know it's not meant for long range
Found this on Facebook it was killed in south Texas
Third times the charm
The Spanish Explorers carried pigs and chickens with them on their ships and the Portuguese carried the same along with goats.Never thought about Argentina and Brazil having big hogs. I guess sailors hundreds of years ago carried them on their ships and spread them around the globe?
Not picking on you, TXAoudadKlr, but making a general statement here about internet imagery...
Did you ever notice all the claims being made about unusual kills seem to be void of anything identifying the kills as to where they are from, sort of like the pic of the mountain lion chasing the hog that has been attributed to virtually every southern state in the US? It was a cropped game camera image, the time stamp having been stripped and so it gets recycled every so often and folks don't realize it is years old. Notice you don't see a Texas license plate on the truck. Notice no people are shown. I would guess that it is a South American image. I have seen similar images from Brazil and Argentina.
In fact, doing a Google image search reveals the image is from here...
Mais javalis gigantes em cima da Serra - Variedades - Correio dos Lagos
State of Santa Catarina
Brazil
So not a south Texas hog.
J E, I am still thinking about that world record of yours. Five hogs with one shot. Amazing. Can't believe you could ever catch them still enough to do this. What happened to my ego blowin' videos? You cutting me some slack. TX, I love huge hogs period. Does not matter where their from. Surely one of you young computer, facebook pros can find us a few more. Thanks.