I got butted and trampled by a cow when I was backpacking. Fortunately most of the impacts were to my pack.
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
Shabbat shalom, motherf***ers! --Mordechai Jefferson Carver
I hunt a private ranch in central Florida that’s 27,000 acres of cattle. There are two groups of people , 3 each , who hunt hogs yearly. We pulled just shy of 1,000 hogs off of the ranch for the last three years straight . We run two female black mouth cur dogs as bay dogs and two cur/pit mixes as RCD ( running catch dogs). We use custom made knives to kill them,after the dogs anchor them by the ears or jaws. Male boar hogs are angry animals and will charge in the confined spaces of the palmetto bushes. I carry a Glock 19 with Winchester 147gr bonded ranger. I have shit hogs with everything from 12ga buck and slug, 5.56 70gr tsx, 308 bonded bear claw, 30-30, 17hmr, 40, 45 and 9mm. I’m fully comfortable carrying my edc Glock as my sidearm in hog country. The females normally scatter even if they have shoats (piglets). The males will stand there ground and fight. There also very cannibalistic , they will eat wounded and/ or dead pigs that are left to lie.
We run across crossbred pigs all the time , mottled in color , they have bread with domesticated pigs. I think it all depends on the circumstances, but most of the hogs are more aggressive than most people think or believe.
My experience with hogs is pretty limited, but I had the opportunity a few years ago to do some wild pig hunting near the Central California coast with some buddies. Rifles used included a .308 Saiga, a 16" AR in 5.56 (mine, loaded with 62gr TSXs), a Shuff's Mini G Tanker Garand, and some flavor of bolt gun in .257 Roberts (we're an odd bunch). Pistols were mostly service size 9mms loaded with Hornady Critical Duty 135 +P, along with a S&W 6" 686 with generic soft points.
The rifles all performed fine as long as shots were well-placed. We shot several hogs with the handguns, and used the pistols to put down a handful of mortally wounded animals. While Critical Duty likely wouldn't be my first choice these days, they performed pretty well out of a 19, 34, and 92FS. I'd feel fairly confident in hog country with a 9mm that I shot well, loaded with a deep-penetrating bullet (especially with 15+ rounds on tap).
Last edited by Seven_Sicks_Two; 12-02-2019 at 11:36 AM.
Sorry I missed this the first go-round.
I hit him with a 240 hard cast SWC and 10 grains Unique. Right where they say not to, on the tough shoulder. Went right on through and dropped it.
The close up revolver pic where the snow is wiped away below it, is actually showing where the bullet entered. The little grey circle on his shoulder.
I thought of this thread and especially @Lost River when I saw this on the youtubes