Champion Hog Hunter of AR?

Mike

Legistine actu quod 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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09 January 2006, 16:11

Rattlesnaker

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Originally posted by UltraMag:
For the Hawaii contingent I think Geoff takes quite a few on his hunts no doubt. I havent hunted much lately due to work but we get our fair share and method of take would of course be KNIFE

Heres one my boyfriend got a couple weeks ago that had 4 inch tusk not too thick though.

Aloha!!!

Nice teeth! Any dogs cut? One of the worst hogs we ever caught was only about 200 lbs with 2 inch teeth. We call him the Artesia Wells boar since that's where we were hunting when we caught him. He cut 5 or 6 of our dogs very badly and killed one of our best dogs. That's significant since we've only lost 3 dogs to hogs in over 20+ years of hunting them. Anyway, I've come to realize that big bodies and big teeth don't necessarily mean that hogs are tough and good fighters.

I'd like to hear your story on this hog.

09 January 2006, 23:14

Walker

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Originally posted by Rattlesnaker:

Nice teeth! Any dogs cut? One of the worst hogs we ever caught was only about 200 lbs with 2 inch teeth. We call him the Artesia Wells boar since that's where we were hunting when we caught him. He cut 5 or 6 of our dogs very badly and killed one of our best dogs. That's significant since we've only lost 3 dogs to hogs in over 20+ years of hunting them. Anyway, I've come to realize that big bodies and big teeth don't necessarily mean that hogs are tough and good fighters.

I'd like to hear your story on this hog.

Boy I hear ya Rattlesnaker. I ran dogs from Rio Medina to Laredo and the worst hogs were the 150# sort. Athletic and aggressive. The really big boars seemed to back up into the whitebrush and just stand their ground. The only times I got dogs hurt by big boars was when the dogs thought they could handle something before the catch dogs got there.

ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS

Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

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10 January 2006, 13:45

UltraMag

Aloha Rattlesnaker- First of all I do agree with you and Walker here in Hawaii the worst ones are between 90-150# 1 1/2-2 1/2 inch tusk they love to hit and run.

I wasnt on the hunt but according to my boyfriend the dogs hit this boar late and he took them on a marathon race before the dogs finally pulled the boar up. When he got there only 2 dogs were on the boar and one dog took a shot to the chest and was in bad shape and the other dog was pretty tired as they were fighting him awhile before my boyfriend reached the action so he had to grab the boar and stab him quick so he could care for the dogs. The boar only weighed 111 lbs but he was a scrapper. I wish I could say we also only lost 3 dogs to hogs over 20+ years of hunting but sadly the number for us is far greater but it comes with the territory.

Bakes- Great way to start the New Year!!!!

Aloha!!!

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11 January 2006, 13:49

duggaboybuff

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That truck load of pigs makes me want to know more.

Can you give us some more details about that hunt?

Palmer, I spent some time in Outback Australia, shooting for a living. A farmer had a sorgum crop, and it attracted every wild pig in the district to it. A freind and I were employed to shoot the pigs off the crops. This paticular night we shot about 60 hogs. In the three weeks leading up to this shoot we had taken over 300! The hogs on the back of the truck are the ones we sold for the European export market (human Consumption). Many smaller ones were left behind.