vincyr
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Just showed my dad the pics. He's convinced. Gonna dig out the trailcams and get them up tomorrow. We're looking forward to showing these pigs they don't belong here.
Might have hogs, want to know if I need a different .308 load.
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Yep!
vincyr
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Update:
No piggies on the trailcams, and there haven't been anymore hog-looking tracks on our hill. However, our neighbor's yard got rooted up pretty bad, and someone down the road claims to have seen a large brown pig running loose, so we don't plan on dropping our guard yet.
No piggies on the trailcams, and there haven't been anymore hog-looking tracks on our hill. However, our neighbor's yard got rooted up pretty bad, and someone down the road claims to have seen a large brown pig running loose, so we don't plan on dropping our guard yet.
MCgunner
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I used to load Barnes bullets thinkin' I needed more for hogs. Nope, Nosler BTs do the job well and they're just as accurate and cheaper, so that's what I shoot hogs with, too, now.
What you hunt deer with is plenty for hogs. Folks shoot elk with .308s, kinda overkill on deer and hogs, but I like mine a whole lot.
What you hunt deer with is plenty for hogs. Folks shoot elk with .308s, kinda overkill on deer and hogs, but I like mine a whole lot.
I use plain old Hornady 165 grain soft points, either boat tail or flat on deer and hogs. I used to use the 150 grain but they tore up a lot of meat/pork. Accuracy is nothing to choose from out to about 300 yards between plain vanilla and the snazzy bullets-will save those for elk and such.
Hope you get a freezer full of pork!
Hope you get a freezer full of pork!
T.R.
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.308 is plenty of gun for hogs and bullet weight is of little concern. My daughter has taken two hogs with her .243 rifle.
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LeonCarr
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I have killed over 100 hogs, most of them with 150 Grain Nosler Ballistic Tips from a .308.
Your Federal Fusion 150s will work fine, just put them in the right place.
Just my .02,
LeonCarr
Your Federal Fusion 150s will work fine, just put them in the right place.
Just my .02,
LeonCarr
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Double Naught Spy
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The ammo is fine. Remember that your target is inside the hog, not outside. Try to get over your ethics of baiting unless you don't bait mouse traps and the like. You aren't sport hunting. Your only real ethical issues after abiding by the law should be for making humane kills.
Oh, and hogs are not not nocturnal necessarily. They are actually diurnal and have adapted to selective nocturnalism because of hunting pressures. Several of the last hogs I have killed and most killed at my place this year have all been daylight kills.
Oh, and hogs are not not nocturnal necessarily. They are actually diurnal and have adapted to selective nocturnalism because of hunting pressures. Several of the last hogs I have killed and most killed at my place this year have all been daylight kills.
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Tommy Medlin
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Yep,looks like hogs to me,especially the scat.
waffentomas
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Yup, you have pigs.
Sorry to pluralize it, but they are like cockroaches, never just one around.
I shot a nice sized hog in Hawaii with a 10mm using a pulled and reloaded 200gr Black Talon. Shot him facing me, in the chest plate. It penetrated pretty deep and he never took a step.
Your 150/308 is fine.
Stop dinking around here and go shoot those bastards!
Sorry to pluralize it, but they are like cockroaches, never just one around.
I shot a nice sized hog in Hawaii with a 10mm using a pulled and reloaded 200gr Black Talon. Shot him facing me, in the chest plate. It penetrated pretty deep and he never took a step.
Your 150/308 is fine.
Stop dinking around here and go shoot those bastards!
Kachok
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Yep you got a piggy, go ahead and take him out before he becomes 186,000 more, they breed like rats. Your 308 will do fine, 150gr is not my first pick but the Federal Fusion is a bonded bullet so you should be fine, now if you start running across some 5" tracks upgrade to 180s quickly
vincyr
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Update:
Hasn't been any new pig sign on our hill in weeks and nobody has mentioned seeing any recently. Maybe they were just passing through, but I don't think we are that lucky. I think they are just laying low.
The guy that my dad leases the field to just put some corn in this last weekend, so I am going to try to keep an eye on it. Gonna try head down into the state woods south of our place and scout around this weekend, too. There is something like 2000 acres of pretty heavy cover(patchwork of hemlock/pine and oak/beach), surrounded by farms on almost every side.
Also, apparently DEC decided that you can't put out bait for hogs, because it will draw deer too. So baiting is not in my playbook if I do find them.
Hasn't been any new pig sign on our hill in weeks and nobody has mentioned seeing any recently. Maybe they were just passing through, but I don't think we are that lucky. I think they are just laying low.
The guy that my dad leases the field to just put some corn in this last weekend, so I am going to try to keep an eye on it. Gonna try head down into the state woods south of our place and scout around this weekend, too. There is something like 2000 acres of pretty heavy cover(patchwork of hemlock/pine and oak/beach), surrounded by farms on almost every side.
Also, apparently DEC decided that you can't put out bait for hogs, because it will draw deer too. So baiting is not in my playbook if I do find them.
Kachok
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If you cannot use bait use diesel fuel, whatever you put the diesel on they will want to rub against to keep the bugs off.
vincyr
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When I got my CDL, I had to become intimately familiar with DEC's regs on "spilling" diesel. Lets just say I would rather get caught putting out 50 lbs of corn than a pint of diesel fuel.
Kachok
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That is why I miss Texas, I can dump all the corn I want to and hunt over it right in front of the game warden No way would I try that in Alabama.
No way would I try that in Alabama.We shoot a lot of hogs at our property in FL as they do a lot of damage to our farm land and eat/destroy a lot of crop. Your pictures indicate you have a pig visiting your property.
We bait hogs out to the pasture using sour corn mash which is combo of feed corn, yeast, hot water, left over wine/beer and some sugar which we mix in 5 gal bucket with lid. Let it sit out in the hot sun for few days until it ferments real good. We pour the mixture on to flat containers in area where we expect to have hogs travel... preferably in open area like pasture. Two or three shooters take position about 50-100 yards away down wind in the evening and get comfortable as it could take a while for hogs to show up. We always hunt at night as hogs are mostly active after sun goes down.
As for weapons, we use AR rifles or carbine in 223/5.56 caliber with low power scope. Each rifle has attached a high output LED flashlight that puts out green light. When they show up we give them few minutes to calm down and get started on the mash. Once we light them up we start shooting until magazine goes dry or hogs make it back to the wood line. Most sounders are made of about 8 hogs but we've seen sounders of 30 hogs of all sizes.
223/5.56 will put down a hog immediately if you hit the right spot but a 7mm magnum in the wrong spot will not put them down. A double lung shot hog can and frequently do run 300+ yards before slowing down. We only shoot the head or upper neck. Hogs are tough animals but they are not tanks. Your typical 55gr or 62gr FMJ bullet will give enough penetration while light weight HP or SP may not.
If you have a sounder it will usually be a sow or two with little ones. You almost never see a sounder with a boar in the group. If you see a loner it will usually be a boar.
We bait hogs out to the pasture using sour corn mash which is combo of feed corn, yeast, hot water, left over wine/beer and some sugar which we mix in 5 gal bucket with lid. Let it sit out in the hot sun for few days until it ferments real good. We pour the mixture on to flat containers in area where we expect to have hogs travel... preferably in open area like pasture. Two or three shooters take position about 50-100 yards away down wind in the evening and get comfortable as it could take a while for hogs to show up. We always hunt at night as hogs are mostly active after sun goes down.
As for weapons, we use AR rifles or carbine in 223/5.56 caliber with low power scope. Each rifle has attached a high output LED flashlight that puts out green light. When they show up we give them few minutes to calm down and get started on the mash. Once we light them up we start shooting until magazine goes dry or hogs make it back to the wood line. Most sounders are made of about 8 hogs but we've seen sounders of 30 hogs of all sizes.
223/5.56 will put down a hog immediately if you hit the right spot but a 7mm magnum in the wrong spot will not put them down. A double lung shot hog can and frequently do run 300+ yards before slowing down. We only shoot the head or upper neck. Hogs are tough animals but they are not tanks. Your typical 55gr or 62gr FMJ bullet will give enough penetration while light weight HP or SP may not.
If you have a sounder it will usually be a sow or two with little ones. You almost never see a sounder with a boar in the group. If you see a loner it will usually be a boar.
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