Thread: Decent Boar

Originally Posted by 30.06king

Almost sorry I asked Greg. Would have thought a ballistics afficionado such as yourself would have spent time at the rifle rack, deeply comtemplating the decision of which cartridge was the sexiest for doing the job. If 22RF was the best you could come up with it leaves me wondering about you "southern men" ! :

Not really a lot of ballistic calculations required at that range or horse power for that matter

I could have introduced him to a .338 160 TTSX out of my pig thermal rifle at 2550-2600fps but decided that was the last resort if I couldn't convince him to go into the trap

Great looking boar! Thats wild the 264 didnt do the trick on him.....that fella was probably scratching his head after hearing the smack and not recovering it.

Originally Posted by CanuckHunterAB

Great looking boar! Thats wild the 264 didnt do the trick on him.....that fella was probably scratching his head after hearing the smack and not recovering it.

It's not surprising at all if you know a bit about animal anatomy. There are a few places even a large bullet can pass through with practically no long term effect on the animal.
Back in the live capture days I would target hinds. Shooting through the top of the neck just forward of the shoulder. The shock would knock them out long enough to get to them and tie them up if you didn't muck around. There were a few balls ups though. They would have quite a nasty flesh wound for a while. But long term weren't overly affected. Getting them out was a bit of a mission sometimes. But at three thousand a animal it was good money. I was using a 3006.
A mate put a 44 mag through the ribs of one of his dogs when things got a bit hectic at a bail. Bullet went above the lungs and below the spine. He was expecting the dog to keel over but it carried on for the trip out (walking on its own) and fully recovered.