maybe try some hard cast bullets for your 38 spl. Buffalo bore loads them.
you need to be shooting for the brain or side shot to the ear hole.
you need to be shooting for the brain or side shot to the ear hole.
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Recommended Handgun for Hog Protection
- Thread starter 47thGARBB
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Never put down a long gun to use a handgun. Stoke your turkey gun with tungsten shot and carry on.
.38 from a 4” barrel is more than capable of putting down a hog, but a turkey mag will absolutely ruin a hog’s day within 10 yards as well.
I carry a FN 510 10mm hunting but in the situation I would probably just use the shotgun if it’s already in my hands and the FN to humanely dispatch it afterwards.
I carry a FN 510 10mm hunting but in the situation I would probably just use the shotgun if it’s already in my hands and the FN to humanely dispatch it afterwards.
I think you make a good point but I simply cannot personally justify spending the money on TSS at the ranges I hunt at. At the property I hunt, the brush is typically pretty thick. Most, if not all shots will be under 30 yards. At this range I have found just about any lead load I have tried through my gun/choke combo produces a sufficient pattern to my liking. Just my two cents on TSS.
The shotgun is more than likely what will be touched off first, given that it's what's in my hands. It's the question that if I run out of ammo in the shotgun and have to switch to a sidearm that if my .38 will do the trick I suppose.
Correct, I have shot enough and been run up on enough to have experienced the same thing. My usual plan of action is to slowly back out the way I came and create some distance between myself and the pigs. Shooting is a last resort.
I don't hunt but love handguns. I've learned that most Alaska guides carry a 10mm Glock. Gives you good magazine capacity and quicker reloads if more than one hog.
In my opinion 10mm minimum.
Well, I’ve stalked and killed hundreds of pigs!It has happened to me a handful of times now that I have run up on hogs in the thick brush that I typically hunt in for turkeys in the spring. This always seems to happen when I am woefully underprepared, given the firearms limitations of turkey season. I have been charged a couple times and the old turkey gun is just not enough. Go ahead and call me a bad woodsman for getting myself into this situation, I get it.
Currently, the hottest handgun load I have access to shoot is a .38 spl +P from a 4" barrel. I don't own a whole lot of handguns unfortunately (but looking to change that being on this site). In the emergency situation that I have to stop a charging hog (<300 lbs, in my area), do you think this would be a sufficient load? Or should I consider a much stouter cartridge/firearm combo for this job? Interested to hear from your experience or opinions. Thanks.
Never been rushed by one! (Lucky me)
Don’t know what your turkey hunting with, but whatever it is it will stop a pig unless it’s a slingshot!
So tell me, what are you turkey hunting with?
