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Recommended Handgun for Hog Protection
- Thread starter 47thGARBB
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seed a polar bear at the zoo,never in the woods. Slugs kill everything man or beast
Toting a rifle on a turkey hunt...pretty sure that's an infraction that will earn an autograph from a DNR ranger. The rifle is a second hunting firearm, as well as the wrong weapon for the game season. The exception in the regs is for a concealed carry handgun. I'm not even sure if they've updated the wording to account for permit-less carry, but the idea is the same, with or without a permit: A concealed handgun is exempt from the hunting weapon regs if carried for protection.
Along the same lines, can't carry ammo for the shotgun that isn't a turkey load. And I can't quite recall: Does a magazine-fed shotgun need to be plugged for max 3 rounds for turkey season?
For the OP's situation, the shotgun would be my first choice for a single pig, assuming a stout turkey load. If multi-pig encounters are potentially an issue, I'd want either a 6 shot 357 mag, or a compact 9mm with 15+ capacity. I think the S&W model 10, with FMJ or hard cast, is a reasonable choice, if not ideal.
If you decide to keep the 38, hard cast is your friend for animals in the woods loads like these.
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.41magnum is what we carry for unwelcome wilds in the woods.
You already have your .38. Invest in some UDAP (bear spray) and a chest rig for your primary can. Bear spray will hurt feral hogs as it does bears.
You already have your .38. Invest in some UDAP (bear spray) and a chest rig for your primary can. Bear spray will hurt feral hogs as it does bears.
I went to a WMA just south of Benning during squirrel season years ago with a 10/22.
Felt a little better with a big blade on my side JIC.
Dropped a nice one maybe 100lbs about 20 yards from the tree base I was sitting at and used the blade to finish it off.
Used a smaller blade to cut out some loin meat and left the rest behind lol
Don’t underestimate a big accessible blade!
Felt a little better with a big blade on my side JIC.
Dropped a nice one maybe 100lbs about 20 yards from the tree base I was sitting at and used the blade to finish it off.
Used a smaller blade to cut out some loin meat and left the rest behind lol
Don’t underestimate a big accessible blade!
Pigs are notoriously hard to kill. Just for example if you wanted prove a new execution device for human beings, you have to kill a pig with it.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.
If you are going for a straight on ‘head shot’. Ear to eye, ear to eye, X marks the spot. If you have a side shot. You want bullet placement to be where the bottom of the ear opening joins the skull.
The pig brain is the size of a golfball. Miss by a little bit and you could be in for a very bad day. Wild boar is the smallest of the ‘ big game’. When they are wounded they will attack.
I killed a 300 pound boar in Texas. I snapped off the perfect side shot into his left ear….. about 1 inch too low. It immediately dropped where it was. (way too cool). I took my eye off the front sight, and 2 seconds later it jumped up and spun towards me.
My brother in law tells the story about emptying a pump action 12 gauge with 00 buck into a big boar. They backed up and watched it for 45 minutes while it died.
You might want to consider yelling or discharging your weapon to scare it off.
I have no experience with this but I would definitely err on the side of stopping power. If you are surprised and don’t have time to get on target as well as you’d like you may have to spray and pray. I wouldn’t go with less than 357 or 44 mag or a 45ACP. IMOIt 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
