Thread: Decent Boar

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.

pill mushroomed nicely tho

Yeah mate…well done…enjoyed that read!!!!

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

Yeah nothing there except meat, smaller cartridges, boom, fall over, squeal, get up & bugger off, bigger cartridges same shot placement, bigger mess, less chance of disappearing, still can happen though....

They are tough animals

Had to have been a 6.5 Creedmoor?

No way he would have walked if he was hit with one from my .260 Rem!

Originally Posted by Maxx

Had to have been a 6.5 Creedmoor?

No way he would have walked if he was hit with one from my .260 Rem!

LOL . looks to be a 123 or 129 SST

Nice porker Gregg,your old mates will enjoy that.

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.