Russian Boar

[dakota]

All the pigs we shot were Russian pigs. The boars that were shot had a breast plate some call armor. It was like 1.125" of hard plastic similar to a plastic cutting board around their chest. The following is the sow I shot, 160 pounds. It did not have the armor. It was the largest shot for 3 years. But then a couple guys shot boars after I shot this one. They had the armor.

[deputydon]

Nice hog!!!! Do the sows not have the armor or does it come w/ age ?

[dakota]

I don't know. But the boars, even the smaller ones did have the armor. I gutted and skinned several of the hogs. The smaller sows were a cinch (except the fleas which were on all of them). The old boars were damn tough . I have sharp knives that are not cheap ($100 range or more). But it took several knives to gut one hog. You have to put a lot of pressure with a very sharp knife to cut the skin of an old boar.

One guy brought six knives and went through them when skinning one of the boars.

[jimiowa]

Looks like some fine eating there!
What method did you use to hunt?

[dakota]

The other load that was used successfully was a cast bullet in a 350 Rem Mag. 260 grain RCBS with gas check -- It dropped the second largest boar. <1" diameter hole through hog. The largest boar was shot with the 338 and 210 grain Nosler Partition. All loads that were successful had total penetration.

The guys were giving the 338 holder grieve cause of his 'cannon'. It seems last year someone talked him into using a 30-06 and fragile bullets. He shot two or three hogs -- several times on one -- never dropped a hog though.

[deputydon]

Shhhhhhh! Your gonna make Gila's head swell...

[Purebred Redneck]

I'll have to try that sometime

Relatively cheap, high success, and most deer rifles are acceptable with heavy bullets (assuming hogs are around 200 pounds).

[dakota]

Red, I encourage that 100%!

[deputydon]

the army transfered #2 son from Ft. Hood before I could try it down there. Interestingly enough in Nebraska its illegal to hunt hogs. Even though we now have (wild) herds.

[dakota]

How in the world could shooting a pig be illegal?

[jimiowa]

deputydon said:

the army transfered #2 son from Ft. Hood before I could try it down there. Interestingly enough in Nebraska its illegal to hunt hogs. Even though we now have (wild) herds.

That is interesting! Iowa being the largest pork producer in the country takes just the opposite aproach. With fear that wild ferals could spread disease in domesticated herd, Iowa DNR has a Shoot on sight order out for all sportsmen in the state.
There are ferals out there but they are scarce, and seriously threatened if I ever get at shot at one. Just hope I'm carrying the .444 when it happens, that rifle needs blooded.

[deputydon]

jimiowa said:

deputydon said:

the army transfered #2 son from Ft. Hood before I could try it down there. Interestingly enough in Nebraska its illegal to hunt hogs. Even though we now have (wild) herds.

That is interesting! Iowa being the largest pork producer in the country takes just the opposite aproach. With fear that wild ferals could spread disease in domesticated herd, Iowa DNR has a Shoot on sight order out for all sportsmen in the state.
There are ferals out there but they are scarce, and seriously threatened if I ever get at shot at one. Just hope I'm carrying the .444 when it happens, that rifle needs blooded.

Wellllll I would imagine the state is trying to figure out how to make money on this !!! JMHO... But everyone I have asked on the state level has no answer....

[WyoStillhunter]

The way the Missouri Department of Conservation is encouraging deer hunters to shoot feral hogs on sight you would think that they were snatching little kids off the school playgrounds.

Seriously, feral hogs in the national forests compete with deer, eat fawns too young to run, and literally wipe out ground nesting birds including wild turkey and quail. Not to mention the physical damage they do to habitat of all types. When Missouri had open range for cattle and hogs in the Ozarks deer were mighty scarce and turkey were non-existent.

It sounds like hogs would be nicely handled by my .444 Marlin with some heavy, cast bullets from Beartooth Bullets.

[deputydon]

wyostillhunter said:

The way the Missouri Department of Conservation is encouraging deer hunters to shoot feral hogs on sight you would think that they were snatching little kids off the school playgrounds.

Seriously, feral hogs in the national forests compete with deer, eat fawns too young to run, and literally wipe out ground nesting birds including wild turkey and quail. Not to mention the physical damage they do to habitat of all types. When Missouri had open range for cattle and hogs in the Ozarks deer were mighty scarce and turkey were non-existent.

It sounds like hogs would be nicely handled by my .444 Marlin with some heavy, cast bullets from Beartooth Bullets.

This is exactly why I think we too should be allowed to shoot them on sight!!!!!! I don't know what Nebraska is thinking!!! On the state web site forum they said at one time that if everyone one started shooting at them the hogs would get "hunter smart" and the population would explode because of this... You can imagine the response to this... They locked the thread......

[WyoStillhunter]

dd, are you kidding?! Hunter smart if you hunt them and that leads to population explosion?! I thought population explosion was the result of...well, you know what it comes from.

POWER OUTAGES, that's what leads to population explosions. That and leaving feral hogs alone to procreate and take advantage of their highly adaptive and aggressive use of available habitat at the expense of all sorts of game and non-game species that both hunters and nonhunters value.

Do you suppose there will ever be federal Wild Hog refuges like what we have for the so-called wild horses (which are actually just descendents of escaped or abandoned domestic horses)? I hope not.