Posted: 12/15/2008 2:27:58 PM EDT
So I just wanted to post all this for the guys at gun gallery in Jax. I took this hog Last month on a friends farm in Georgia in a cotton field. Man I love hog hunting its my new thing, and got some great meat off of it. here are a few pics. by the way 55 grn Corbon DPX works great on pigs. I recommend it.
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Good Kill... I think my next Hog / Wild Boar will be a trophy hunt... I'm wanting a good evil looking tusk head mount... 300 plus size Trophy Wild Boar... Handgun Hunt... 44 mag... Ryan, next time you're at Markham, ask to see the 300+ lb hog Doug has mounted in his office. Absolutely wicked-looking. He also has just some tusks mounted on a plaque. There's a couple of places up around Ft. Pierce that he can steer you towards, great selection of piggies and reasonable prices. |
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Congrats. Nice kill. Good looking hog. Can't wait to get out and kill some hogs after the holidays, and maybe get a couple coyotes also. I can't see it in the pic. Where did you place the shot at on that sucker. Right in the center of the back through his spine, wasnt a great shot but he was on the move and i shot 1 handed while holding NVG's and my rifle in the other hand dropped him and i also did some serious internal damage cause when i cut him open a shit ton of blood gussed outta his body cavity. |
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These guys are great, near Ft Pierce, one exit N. of the crossover from I-95 to the turnpike, off of 441...
http://www.littlelakelodge.net/ Last time I went was in 2006. Awesome folks, we went up on a Saturday morning and all six of us had our pigs by three that afternoon. Note: Depending on the guide and the clients (that means you) they may or may not allow semi-auto rifles. I brought it up before booking the hunt and they had no problem with me using a semi-auto, they just made sure that they didn't hunt with dogs in front of me––I gues they've had some problems with rapid-fire and didn't want to put the dogs at risk. |
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These guys are great, near Ft Pierce, one exit N. of the crossover from I-95 to the turnpike, off of 441... http://www.littlelakelodge.net/ Last time I went was in 2006. Awesome folks, we went up on a Saturday morning and all six of us had our pigs by three that afternoon. Note: Depending on the guide and the clients (that means you) they may or may not allow semi-auto rifles. I brought it up before booking the hunt and they had no problem with me using a semi-auto, they just made sure that they didn't hunt with dogs in front of me––I gues they've had some problems with rapid-fire and didn't want to put the dogs at risk. I'm assuming this was on their private land. Did they let you use 30 round mags or did you have to stick with the 5 rounders? |
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As far as legalities go, you can use thirty-rounders for hogs as they are considered agricultural animals and not 'wildlife' subject to fish & game regs.
I ended up taking a Ruger .44 mag carbine semi-auto, as I wasn't sure how hogs would react to .223 hollowpoints. Oddly enough, three of the guys I went with carried .308 bolt actions––the standard 150-gr hollowpoints, Remington, I believe. The three hogs they shot acted like they were shooting .22 LR's. The rounds zipped right through the hogs with little or no penetration, smallest piggy was about 90lbs and the biggest one was 260lbs. One guy nailed a 280lb hog with a Marlin 45-70, he wasn't screwign around. It was a spine hit, from tail to mid-shoulder (shooting from behind the pig) and it dropped like a rock. I got two pigs, one, app 160 lbs, from about 80 meters with the carbine, a shot just behind the front forleg through the lungs, about 4" below the spine. Pig ran twenty feet and dropped. Second pig I shot at about 50 yards, took it through the side of the head between the eye and the ear––dropped on the spot. First pig was still kicking when I came up to it so I fired one round from my S & W .44 special through the top of the head and tht did the trick. |
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So a .44 mag works better on live targets than .308? I was kind of surprised that the .308 deer loads didn't open up. Another guy had a marlin .30-30 that blew decent sized holes in his two pigs. I expected them to open up, I mean, a pig is a little more solid then a deer. I was shooting 240-gr Hornady XTP's over 23.5 grains of H100, about 1840 fps. They opened up no problem. The guide I was with (I think his name might have been Robert) said a bunch of Russian guys came out and used AK's and AR's, and had no problem dropping the pigs, but he said something that amused me. He said they were kinda 'Russian Mob' strip-club owner-type dudes, and they weren't interested in harvesting the meat. He said when one guy would shoot a pig, all of the guys would then empty their magazines into the unfortunate animal, thirty or forty rounds from a half-dozen guys. 
He said they weren't there for the meat, they just wanted to 'shoot something'. 
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed hunting there. Now that I live in W. Va. I kind of miss it. Hogs up here are a tagged animal and there are only a few counties where you can hunt them. I miss the unrestricted hunting down in the sunshine state. But I guess the trade-off is being able to hunt deer in your backyard. 
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Growing up in Florida, wild Hogs were considered "domestic" animals and you could hunt them year 'round if they were on your property: Is it still that way?
It's a lot of fun hunting them with or even without dogs.... There used to be tons of them at the Seminole County dump/transfer station, some dumb-ass would get busted there almost every night hunting them illegally. |
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Growing up in Florida, wild Hogs were considered "domestic" animals and you could hunt them year 'round if they were on your property: Is it still that way? It's a lot of fun hunting them with or even without dogs.... There used to be tons of them at the Seminole County dump/transfer station, some dumb-ass would get busted there almost every night hunting them illegally. Yeah, they are not regulated by fish & game if you are on private property with the landowner's permission. I've seen them all along the turnpike once you get north of WPB... |
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That's what I'm looking for....
Nice rifle to boot too SCALP... Nice pic's... I want to hunt a trophy BIG HOG up close with my Ruger Red-Hawk or my S&W 500... I want the thrilling challenge of stalking and fighting up close in person... I want to feel like I'm actually hunting and not cheating using stand off feeders... I want a successful BIG HOGGY knowing I worked my ass off for it... 
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