Hog Hunting Help
 

Well just got off the phone with my brother and apparently we are taking dad hog hunting. Very excited about this. Not for a few months out but this should be a riot!

Anyways my wheels are spinning...I will carry a heavy rifle but if I can get close as say 20 yards to one if I even can do you think my 10mm will have any issues taking a hog down with a 200gr load? I will probably use my Glock 20 (i know I said it) with a 6" barrel. I think it would be great to use it for hunting. I have used it deer hunting but a Russian hog is a much tougher animal.

Any thoughts?

well penetration is key if you are going for a body shot, do you know how far that bullet/load combo will penetrate?

all hogs are different and size has a lot to do with it as well but the shield on a hog can be very thick and very hard to penetrate, some bullets just can't make it to the heart, I don't have any experience with the 10MM but I've taken some hogs with the 38 special and properly loaded it did a fine job.

if you go for a head shot then you should be fine at that range, I've killed over a 100 hogs at 15yrds and under with a 22 in the ear and never had to fire twice.

so to sum it up penetration and shot placement.:)

Phil what Lane said is True, but remember one Big thing if you don't kill it will come after you ............... Good Luck and don't forget pics of it if possible......


Clyde

From the people I know who have taken hogs 10mm will be fine. I even know a few who have taken them with knives.

One point of warning. If you do kill one be careful coming in contact with the blood. If you have a cut, use long gloves. I know a few people who have gotten some virus during cleaning that made them sick for months afterward, including being hospitalized.

thanks for the info....I know they are mean suckers. Didn't know they were that ill though...crazy. Yeah looking forward to this hunt, should be fun with dad. Wish I didn't have to wait so long though.

10mm's will work fine given proper shot placement. As Zane pointed out they do have a protective cartilage plate on their sides. I have seen some over an inch and a half thick. Light high velocity rounds can explode in this plate. My shot of choice is in or behind the ear. They are vermin kill them all!!!! Don't go hands and knees in the brush looking for a wounded one. It is my experience that hogs will not charge you unless a little one is in danger or they are wounded. They are basically blind past their nose and will sometimes run past you, because they don't know you are there. They have a great nose and usually very weary.

Your 10 mm is fine Phil. Where you going?

I hear Buffalo Bore makes cast boolits for hogs. I use 250 grain cast in .45. One day I'm gonna get me a 10mm or .45 longslide.

Sounds like a fun hunt...though Clyde has the answer..be ready for follow up shots. I bring a very sharp bayonet. Shoot hog, hog down, cut throat. When pistol hunting, I mean.

Its kind of cheating really to a 750 acher game preserve in IA. My dad can not get out like he used to so we have to be careful where we go. Its a good time and still kind of hunting. We actually don't have the wild hogs up here yet so without driving to MO or south this is the only way we can get him one.

Phil if you really want to hog hunt leave the guns at home get a few good dogs.


Let the dog's pin it down and you go in there with just a knife and finish the hog off.


I've done it ONCE and let me tell you........You have to be a absolute IDIOT to do this, But I was goated into it as my manhood was questioned and Y'all know me. I had to be THAT IDIOT.


I prefer my 30-06 and shoot them at 50 yrds or better, they can and will turn and try to eat your lunch, A buddy shot one at 30yrds and got a 10" scar and 25 stitches to show for it.