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Posted by the "Hunting" page on Facebook. Please tell me where I can get a boar just like this, no not some BS wild boar here in the States, but a real European boar with a winter coat in the snow.  "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan "Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians." Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness. | ||
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I want one!  I think Poland | |||
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It could also be Hungary Bulgaria Ukraine Belarus/Hvite Russia Morten The more I know, the less I wonder ! | |||
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I'll set you up in Romania if you want, but they grow bigger there  Belarus used to be awesome but swine fever is hiting them now. I wouldn't go the Belarus for the next years. Dennis | |||
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That is an awesome hog!! | |||
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There are also some very large pigs in northern Pakistan but for now the political situation does not permit travel to that area. I worked in that area all during the 1990s and things were different then. Regards, Keith | |||
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Eastern Europe for sure I've been thinking Romania Caracal, you got connections in Romania, Bulgaria etc? " Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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Argentina...   Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Here is one that 600 overkill took back in 2008.  Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Well, they may not be cloaked in a heavy winter coat, but the truly wild ones here in the states are nothing to sneeze at. But as far as internationally, some of the best places with colder climates and the type of animal you are looking for are simply too dangerous to consider right now. I'd check with Dr. Pozzi, who posts on a regular basis. He is highly-respected, and from the photos I have seen, he has plenty of high-adrenaline adventures to offer. Texas hogs:   Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Shot this one in Missouri:  This one in North Carolina last year:  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Looks like a Walter picture. "The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane." Mark Twain TANSTAAFL www.savannagems.com A unique way to own a piece of Africa. DSC Life NRA Life | |||
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Bear mountain Michigan? " Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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Yup. If my memory serves me correctly, that one tipped the scales at 480-lbs. That is worthy of a full body mount! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Hell yeah They got some pigs there " Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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How is bear Mountaion? How much acreage ?does it feel like a hunt? Thanks | |||
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I took this boar at Tejon Ranch in So. CA this past December, while hunting with a friend from the Netherlands. He hunts boar in Germany and says this pig is no different from what they routinely shoot there. Maybe not quite as cold as Europe, but a heavy coat with that same "grizzled" look!   "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." Tanzania 2012: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/8331015971 Saskatoon, Canada 2013: http://forums.accuratereloadin...4121043/m/7171030391 Las Pampas, Argentina 2014: http://forums.accuratereloadin...4107165/m/1991059791 | |||
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The perfect boar (or sow) is the one in my scope right before I pull the triggers ( I use double rifles and always shoot twice). That's all that matters. | |||
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Here's a pic of one on a S. Tx lease I was on.  An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool" | |||
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From a German hunting magazine cover a few years ago, I think Wild und Hund. In the running for "The Perfect Boar"  -------- There are those who only reload so they can shoot, and then there are those who only shoot so they can reload. I belong to the first group. Dom --------- | |||
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You have to admire those pure European boars. However, and not to hijack the post, I would like to see you regulars post a pic of what you believe is the perfect North American boar. I would guess something in the line of 3/4 Russian and 1/4 feral. One that thrives in the US environment, be it the cold north or tough Texas country. Bobby's pic is close to it. Comments? | |||
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Those pure European Boars look like something out of a bad nightmare! | |||
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 Brazilian boar.. Caçar é mais que matar, é um estado de espirito... | |||
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Gui, That's a might fine pig.!!! Don't know if I've ever seen the perfect boar. Know I've never killed him, and I've seen and killed a lot. But I will say this. I've been killing them for at least 50 years and I still enjoy the heck out of it.  I so wanted to nail this guy last year, but alas, it did not come to be. Perhaps later this year. Some more pix of decent hoglets from my neck of the woods..........   An older pix of one taken at dark thirty several years back. There was a sow and some shoats eating corn under a feeder. He came in on a dead run and hit the sow and knocked her flying. He came in and out a couple times before he would stop long enough for me to get a shot. Nailed him at about 150 yds with a 100 gr. Partition out of a 257 Weatherby.  Here is the mount.  Here's another one that was a pretty good one.  I got a shot at him. It was a cold rainy day. I was in a ground blind and the rain was leaking in and it was miserable. I was shooting off sticks and pulled my shot.  I did not find him until about two weeks later,and he was probably 10 days dead. This one ain't so big but he is gnarly looking....  wouldn't want to be tracking this one if he was wounded, on my hands and knees though tight brush at night.  Stuff nightmares are made of!    Best, GWB | |||
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Austria has them as well. This one went 408 pounds!  | |||
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I understand your want to shoot the purer strains of Euro instead of our mutts, I do too. I once worked on a hog population and management project on Mendocino/Humboldt boarder. Most if not all hogs wild in the US show mostly bodies of their domesticated ancestors, our heritage breeds. We just don't realize it until a Euro hog is sitting next to us. I have shot some where "Russian" hogs had been turned out to increase the sport of the feral hogs, yet still not the same as those purer hogs.  Did I mention I am 320 pounds? I was at a wild game park once that had 'pure' Estonia sus. At least that's what it said. The boar was to my hip in height and I am 6'8". Rump to shoulder ration and slope of skull say a lot. I was always amazed by how narrow compared to their height the purer hogs were. Old heritage feral hogs are still pretty barrel shaped. RUSTY.....that is a hog to hunt...wow! | |||
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Looks like you owe him and he's going to collect!! | |||
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Killed this one in Missouri about a dozen years ago.  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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http://sciboarhunter.com/russian-boar/ It's a large fenced area in Michigan and it certainly looks like he had the real thing and LARGE/ DB Bill aka Bill George | |||
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Very nice boar in Argentina ,we have exactly the same boars in the Patagonia .I kiled many in poland invited by ganyana ,they are pure breed russian boars .Sandly in Cordoba we have many feral hogs too . www.huntinginargentina.com.ar FULL PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF IPHA INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS ASOCIATION . DSC PROFESSIONAL MEMBER DRSS--SCI NRA IDPA IPSC-FAT -argentine shooting federation cred number2- | |||
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Hungary! | |||
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Yes, Hungary is in the running for the perfect Boar, I shot this old Keiler, ~22cm tusks, a few years ago.  They barely fit in the "car carrier" . . .  -------- There are those who only reload so they can shoot, and then there are those who only shoot so they can reload. I belong to the first group. Dom --------- | |||
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And one on the hoof in Germany. Pirsch, 18 February 2015 During the wonderful winter weather recently Karl from Buer (Lower Saxony) was with his son Bjorn for a short visit to the Diedrichsburg Forest. On the way back they met a stately Keiler, who peacefully crossed the trail in front of them. Luckily the boar was in a good mood and remained peaceful. The blue-clad Spaziergaenger were not seen as a threat or hunters or drivers, and the Keiler then disappeared into the brush.  -------- There are those who only reload so they can shoot, and then there are those who only shoot so they can reload. I belong to the first group. Dom --------- | |||
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Funny thing. While I was in Germany /71-72 we spent abou 6 weeks each fall at Grafhenweir where the wildlife was abundant. I ran a water supply point on a creek crossing. Last stop on the hot meal delivery route and talked them into leaving all the left over foods and milk cartons. I'd sink them in the cold creek water. Most mornings when I got there things were scattered all over the place. One evening one of the guys went there on his open grader and he was Treed on it with boars trying to get up on the deck with him. Jim, a farm boy from Oregon was plumb scared. Hell of it was, in all the time I was there all I ever saw was tracks! Some great pics here guys, thanks much for sharing. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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