Big Boar Bites The Dust

[alsaqr]

This big boar had recently started coming to a feeder about sundown.



This evening i was in my blind when the hog came in at about 6:15. Distance from blind to feeder is 50 yards. A shot from my 9.3x62mm sent the hog into a spin. After about ten seconds he fell over kicked for a few seconds and lay still.

This hog was huge and very fat.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Congrats, that is a nice mature porker for sure.

 

[der Teufel]

Nice going. Keep after 'em!
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[red rick]

Nice hog and nice looking rifle .

 

[entropy]

I smell bacon! Keep knocking them down, plenty more where that came from

 

[Patocazador]

Your #1 Ruger is a gem. Congrats on the big hog.

 

[Stony]

I'm still playing tag with the big boar that has been haunting my feeders. I stayed out till 10:00 last night and gave up. Checked feeders this morning and he had been to a different one. I am going to keep up this tag game until I can poke a hole in him.
Great job...happy coyotes tonight !

 

[Flintknapper]

Congratulations!

That is a bruiser of a hog.

You certainly had plenty of 'gun' for the job. Great cartridge.

Keep after them.

 

[alsaqr]

Thanks, everyone.

i'm still used to hunting the boars in western Comanche county, OK. The boars there are very careful when approaching a water hole or feeder. They will often circle around, checking out the area and sniffing the air.

The big boars at our lease are different. This dumb boar crossed 75 yards of open space and walked right up to the feeder. He came from the direction of another feeder about 1/4 mile away: That feeder runs earlier. There is some competition between hogs for feeder food. They will sometimes show up in daylight to be first at the feeder. It's fairly easy to ambush hogs after they settle into their daylight routine. A group of five big sows are visiting that feeder and a sounder with small pigs are coming in late at night.

 

[BigBore44]

Ok guys, I just have to ask. What is so great about a Ruger #1 or #3? I know they are incredibly strong actions. And they are beautiful rifles. But I'm just curious. Especially in the larger cartridges like 9.3, 375 H&H, 45-70, 458 WinMag. Is it just the strength the aesthetics?

 

[alsaqr]

"Ok guys, I just have to ask. What is so great about a Ruger #1 or #3 ?Especially in the larger cartridges like 9.3, 375 H&H, 45-70, 458 WinMag "

i just wanted a 9.3x62 chambered Ruger. It helps with the nearly impenetrable shields on those big boars, you know.

i normally shoot hogs with muzzleloaders. A big boar shot through both lungs with a 250 grain SST bullet from a muzzleloader often runs 50-200 yards before dropping. Not so with the 9.3x62.

 

[Flintknapper]

"Ok guys, I just have to ask. What is so great about a Ruger #1 or #3 ?Especially in the larger cartridges like 9.3, 375 H&H, 45-70, 458 WinMag "

i just wanted a 9.3x62 chambered Ruger. It helps with the nearly impenetrable shields on those big boars, you know.

i normally shoot hogs with muzzleloaders. A big boar shot through both lungs with a 250 grain SST bullet from a muzzleloader often runs 50-200 yards before dropping. Not so with the 9.3x62.

Another benefit of larger, heavier calibers (I know...you know) is that it affords more shot 'angles' for those wishing to be ethical (and I hope most are).

I've killed a lot of hogs with a 7mm-08, but had to wait for good broadside shots. When I went to a .458 SOCOM...I found I could pretty much pick any angle I wanted and the bullet would get to the vitals, even hard quartering away shots.

The prospect of having to 'pass up' a shot because of angle....just went completely away.

I can imagine the 9.3 X 62 with proper bullets would do the same.

 

[Patocazador]

When I went to Namibia in the '80s, the guide had me use a 9.3x62 to wait for a leopard by a water hole at night during a full moon. Luckily, the leopard didn't show. It's easy to imagine what goes through your mind while sitting alone at night waiting for an animal that can kill you. When the guide picked me up at midnight, I was relieved for sure.

 

[Choctaw]

Dead pigs make me happy. Good job!

 

[alsaqr]

"Another benefit of larger, heavier calibers (I know...you know) is that it affords more shot 'angles' for those wishing to be ethical (and I hope most are)."

A big hateful boar eluded me for months. He never gave me a broadside shot. Loaded up my .54 caliber inline with 120 grains of powder and a saboted 330 grain hard cast bullet. One evening that hog came in, got antsy and ran straight away. Gave him a Kansas heart shot that exited under the chin: Bang flop.

 

[sage5907]

I like the color of that hog. When I take my friends out to shoot a hog I don't have a problem with shooting brown hogs but I tell them to shoot the black ones first if they have a choice. There's something about a tall brown hog with long hair that acts like a deer that I like. If you look at the pictures their head and neck seems to be about a third of their body size. Really fun to hunt.

 

[Paul7]

Ok guys, I just have to ask. What is so great about a Ruger #1 or #3? I know they are incredibly strong actions. And they are beautiful rifles. But I'm just curious. Especially in the larger cartridges like 9.3, 375 H&H, 45-70, 458 WinMag. Is it just the strength the aesthetics?

I don't own one but have read they are shorter than a bolt action with the same barrel length due to no action.