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A friend of mine has a smaller setup like this. Bears keep getting in and eating the bait. Sometimes they don't even use the door- they just climb over getting in and out.
Is this private or is this Wildlife Management? I hope that state Game and Fish or Wildlife Management agencies are doing this. Wild hogs are damaging crops and wilderness areas. They need to be eradicated.
Pigs aren’t hard to kill. Your 5.56 will do the job just fine within 200 yards using heavy bullets.
I am quoting you, not out of disagreement, but because you are the last to echo the sentiment that hogs are not hard to kill, and I don't agree with you, however, there is a prevailing perception that hogs are particularly tough, hard to kill, etc. There are people that suggest that hogs are so hard to kill because they apparently have something unique or special about their nervous systems that is yet unexplained by science.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...bout-hogs-nervous-system.543619/#post-6735749
Here, in RH45's opinion, hogs have no central nervous system, which is an amazing claim to explain away improper shooting, bullet choice, caliber, etc., but s/he made. I remember dissecting hogs in chordate anatomy and being tested over the CNS, yet s/he doesn't think hogs have one. Oddd.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...a-sidearm-for-hogs.493217/page-3#post-6140091
However, hard to kill really just seems like it means that hogs simply don't tend to drop in place without CNS damaging shots and that hogs are not as fragile as deer and rabbits. If more hunters treated hogs like deer and all the reverence given to deer and deer hunting, they would shoot a hog and it would run into the woods and the hunters would way 15 or 30 minutes and then go trail it the 50 or 100 yards into the woods, find it, proclaim the shot to be in the right place, having brought down the hog after a typical run distance and not think twice about its toughness.
Bottom line, far too many people don't understand behavior and anatomy, much less terminal ballistics. More often than not when a hunter tells me that a hog soaked up a lot of shots, if you examine the hog, it did, but the shots were mostly pretty pathetic in terms of being what would be necessary to bring a hog down quickly. You will find a lung shot (maybe the opener) or two, a shot to the front leg, a shot to the rump, a couple of gut shots and a fresh hole through an ear and they wonder why the hog ran. Simply put, none of the shot were the type to be immediately fatal. OR you find no shots to the actual vitals and they literally swiss cheesed the hog until it bleed out.
This is an extreme example of what I am talking about, but I see similar failures to comprehend what is going on with shots elsewhere. Two goobers have a wounded hog and decide to finish it off with a .44 mag and claim the bullets are bouncing off the hog's head. Idiocy. Watching close, you will notice nearly all the shots miss the hog entirely, especially the one that was to be in the hog's eye. That piece of bullet jacket they find was stripped off by the log it impacted, not the hog.
I feel pretty strongly that if we shoot hogs properly like skilled deer hunters and treated hogs that run off like we treat deer that run off and accept the fact that animals not-CNS damaged will run off, we would not think of hogs as being particular special. We don't do this as a community, however. Hogs and hog hunting seems to be a spray and pray paradise for a goodly number of poor shooting hunters who are just amazed by the hog's ability to withstand getting shot and then assigning Super Porcine powers to the hogs to justify what they did wrong as hunters.
If you shoot a hog through both lungs or the hear with a decent hunting round, it isn't going much over 100 yards and usually much less. Shoot it in one lung and it may go over 400 yards before collapsing (I did this and tracked it). Liver shots seem to be a crap shoot, but generally speaking down within 100 yards, if not 200 (and I am not talking about clipping the very edge of any of these with grazing organ shots). You just have to find them once they run and they can be hard to find sometimes because they tend to seal back up and not leave good blood trails. So people lose a lot of hogs and think the "tough" hogs got away and are living their best lives somewhere else.
Well, they are thick skinned and if you get close enough to them, they can be dangerous, though they usually just run away or ignore you. There are numerous videos where hunters, hog doggers, etc. are having to deal with them up close. There are a few where non-huntering types have had issues as well. Taken as a whole, these incidents happen mostly AFTER somebody had injured a hog or gone hands-with a hog. Only rarely are attacks seemingly unprovoked. All wildlife is dangerous on some level.
That they are thick skinned and boars can have a heavy shield, I never had problems getting any centerfire rifle round to penetrate properly, even on big old boars. I think the thickest shield I have seen on a hog was 2-2.5" thick. My bullet had absolutely no problem penetrating it and the thicker skin on top of it (6.5 Grendel). All the thick skin and shield may do is throw off the point in the vitals that your bullet opens (assuming you have one of those that has controlled opening) and maybe for the better. Come to think of it, I never had a problem with penetration useing .223/5.56, .308, or .45-70 either.
Heavy calibers are just fine. You don't need them, you don't need a 12 ga. slug to bring down a deer, either, not unless you are in a shotgun only state, maybe, and then you can still use buckshot. Still, some people hunt with 12 ga.
I am quoting you, not out of disagreement, but because you are the last to echo the sentiment that hogs are not hard to kill, and I don't agree with you, however, there is a prevailing perception that hogs are particularly tough, hard to kill, etc. There are people that suggest that hogs are so hard to kill because they apparently have something unique or special about their nervous systems that is yet unexplained by science.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...bout-hogs-nervous-system.543619/#post-6735749
Here, in RH45's opinion, hogs have no central nervous system, which is an amazing claim to explain away improper shooting, bullet choice, caliber, etc., but s/he made. I remember dissecting hogs in chordate anatomy and being tested over the CNS, yet s/he doesn't think hogs have one. Oddd.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...a-sidearm-for-hogs.493217/page-3#post-6140091
However, hard to kill really just seems like it means that hogs simply don't tend to drop in place without CNS damaging shots and that hogs are not as fragile as deer and rabbits. If more hunters treated hogs like deer and all the reverence given to deer and deer hunting, they would shoot a hog and it would run into the woods and the hunters would way 15 or 30 minutes and then go trail it the 50 or 100 yards into the woods, find it, proclaim the shot to be in the right place, having brought down the hog after a typical run distance and not think twice about its toughness.
Bottom line, far too many people don't understand behavior and anatomy, much less terminal ballistics. More often than not when a hunter tells me that a hog soaked up a lot of shots, if you examine the hog, it did, but the shots were mostly pretty pathetic in terms of being what would be necessary to bring a hog down quickly. You will find a lung shot (maybe the opener) or two, a shot to the front leg, a shot to the rump, a couple of gut shots and a fresh hole through an ear and they wonder why the hog ran. Simply put, none of the shot were the type to be immediately fatal. OR you find no shots to the actual vitals and they literally swiss cheesed the hog until it bleed out.
This is an extreme example of what I am talking about, but I see similar failures to comprehend what is going on with shots elsewhere. Two goobers have a wounded hog and decide to finish it off with a .44 mag and claim the bullets are bouncing off the hog's head. Idiocy. Watching close, you will notice nearly all the shots miss the hog entirely, especially the one that was to be in the hog's eye. That piece of bullet jacket they find was stripped off by the log it impacted, not the hog.
I feel pretty strongly that if we shoot hogs properly like skilled deer hunters and treated hogs that run off like we treat deer that run off and accept the fact that animals not-CNS damaged will run off, we would not think of hogs as being particular special. We don't do this as a community, however. Hogs and hog hunting seems to be a spray and pray paradise for a goodly number of poor shooting hunters who are just amazed by the hog's ability to withstand getting shot and then assigning Super Porcine powers to the hogs to justify what they did wrong as hunters.
If you shoot a hog through both lungs or the hear with a decent hunting round, it isn't going much over 100 yards and usually much less. Shoot it in one lung and it may go over 400 yards before collapsing (I did this and tracked it). Liver shots seem to be a crap shoot, but generally speaking down within 100 yards, if not 200 (and I am not talking about clipping the very edge of any of these with grazing organ shots). You just have to find them once they run and they can be hard to find sometimes because they tend to seal back up and not leave good blood trails. So people lose a lot of hogs and think the "tough" hogs got away and are living their best lives somewhere else.
In the ear and out the eye works too.That is one time where “in one ear and out the other” is a good thing. None of these took a step. Real easy to follow a blood trail when it’s instead a puddle.