JRH6856
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^^^^Well he does say something like "Don't do this at home, we're trained idiots"
Buckshot on hogs
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First, don't break the law. If you're too scared that you can't find a load of buck that will stop a hog, and afraid you'll face one trying to get a piece of you, don't hunt under those conditions.
Second, the infamous McDonald's hot coffee case: the burned woman initially just asked for McDonald's to instruct their stores to turn down their coffee thermostats. That's it.
Not too onerous a request from someone who's suffered 2nd-degree burns.
Second, the infamous McDonald's hot coffee case: the burned woman initially just asked for McDonald's to instruct their stores to turn down their coffee thermostats. That's it.
Not too onerous a request from someone who's suffered 2nd-degree burns.MCgunner
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Only thing I've ever seen hit by a cut shell was a goose flying 100 yards high. We (buddy and I) were probably 300 yards from the kid that fired it, could hear the shell through the air...SWOOOOSH...SPLAT...and the bird fell. Yeah, he was not only shooting a ringed (cut) shell, he was shooting it UP. We were aghast at seeing the bird fall for that far up, walked over to 'em since we knew 'em from school and the round had hit the goose in the abdominal region and took it's butt off, literally. Yeah, lucky shot isn't the word, LOL. I've fired 3 or 4 cut shells through the full choke barrel of my old 16 gauge Iver Johnson single barrel and didn't seem to hurt it, but it's not a practice I'd do anymore unless it was one of those SHTF end of the world, I ain't got no stinkin' slug, scenarios. Good knowledge to have filed in the back of one's head, but for emergency use only, sorta the way I look at it. I certainly am not going to HUNT with a ringed shell.
I have read somewhere that the G men would ring a shell to shoot window glass back in the roaring 20s. Round would hit the glass, the shot would leave the paper and spread out inside the car like shrapnel. Not sure if THAT's fact or not. Also, it was a practice back in the depression era when slugs were expensive and hard to come by. I've also heard that the wound would more resemble a shot from a frangible load like Glasiers than a slug, lacks penetration, which would NOT be desirable on a hog's shoulder at ANY rate, and I could understand how this could be so just from the window glass net story and logic.
We were aghast at seeing the bird fall for that far up, walked over to 'em since we knew 'em from school and the round had hit the goose in the abdominal region and took it's butt off, literally. Yeah, lucky shot isn't the word, LOL. I've fired 3 or 4 cut shells through the full choke barrel of my old 16 gauge Iver Johnson single barrel and didn't seem to hurt it, but it's not a practice I'd do anymore unless it was one of those SHTF end of the world, I ain't got no stinkin' slug, scenarios. Good knowledge to have filed in the back of one's head, but for emergency use only, sorta the way I look at it. I certainly am not going to HUNT with a ringed shell.I have read somewhere that the G men would ring a shell to shoot window glass back in the roaring 20s. Round would hit the glass, the shot would leave the paper and spread out inside the car like shrapnel. Not sure if THAT's fact or not. Also, it was a practice back in the depression era when slugs were expensive and hard to come by. I've also heard that the wound would more resemble a shot from a frangible load like Glasiers than a slug, lacks penetration, which would NOT be desirable on a hog's shoulder at ANY rate, and I could understand how this could be so just from the window glass net story and logic.
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der Teufel
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I've fired 3 or 4 cut shells through the full choke barrel of my old 16 gauge Iver Johnson single barrel and didn't seem to hurt it, but it's not a practice I'd do anymore unless it was one of those SHTF end of the world, I ain't got no stinkin' slug, scenarios.
Yeah, I think that's how I look at it too. Cut shells are an interesting concept, but not something I'm going to rush out and try myself.
In my limited hog-hunting experience I've never had a hog charge me. I've had a couple run my direction as I was standing along the treeline at the edge of the pasture they were in, but only because they wanted to get to the woods once the shooting started -- not at me.
Overall, it would seem to me that even an angry hog would have a change in attitude if he got a load of buckshot in the face.
MCgunner
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Yeah, hat's another reason for leaving the 10 gauge single shot at home and taking the 12 gauge double.
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