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Hunting by Game/Technique => Wild Boar Hunting => Topic started by: adkRoy on Dec 02, 2005, 10:26:49 AM

Title: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: adkRoy on Dec 02, 2005, 10:26:49 AM: Has anyone else hunted wild boar with a hand gun? I am thinking about hunting with my .357 in February. I am having a scope put on mu gun. I just want to know if anyone else has done this and at what caliber.
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: fly-in on Mar 27, 2006, 07:20:33 PM: If you call a blitz gun (a captive bolt gun) a hand gun it is the only way I have ever shot a boar, except those boar weren't wild. but the gun is a .45cal most time it only takes one shot.
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: Cow Creek Kurt on May 10, 2006, 01:51:59 PM: Quote from: adkRoy on Dec 02, 2005, 10:26:49 AM
Has anyone else hunted wild boar with a hand gun? I am thinking about hunting with my .357 in February. I am having a scope put on mu gun. I just want to know if anyone else has done this and at what caliber.

That's not very much gun for a hog. You'd have to take close shots. In my opinion, I'd use a .44mag or better.
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: MASTERGUIDE on May 11, 2006, 03:58:38 AM: I agree, use big gun.

MASTERGUIDE
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: adkRoy on May 11, 2006, 06:20:48 AM: My brother and My dad each got a wild hog with a .357 two weeks ago.
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: Cow Creek Kurt on May 11, 2006, 07:40:00 PM: After re-reading my first post, I thought "They ALL have to be fairly close shots with a handgun!" I am sure many hogs are killed with a .357. They're just better shots than I am. Of course, almost EVERYONE is a better shot than me! ;D
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: Cow Creek Kurt on May 11, 2006, 07:41:24 PM: Roy-
You have wild hogs in Noo Yawk?
Kurt
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: adkRoy on May 12, 2006, 06:18:06 AM: Quote from: Cow Creek Kurt on May 11, 2006, 07:41:24 PM
Roy-
You have wild hogs in Noo Yawk?
Kurt

I Got one last year up at old stone fence preserve by Canton NY. 134 lbs 2 1/2" tusks.
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: Cow Creek Kurt on May 13, 2006, 06:41:39 PM: Cool!
Title: Re: wild boar hunting with handguns
Post by: zooker on Nov 19, 2006, 05:17:13 PM: well i have done it twice to the wild russian's around here. wild boar have a super tough gristle called a sheild that covers the ideal broadside shot the best angle is quarting away. i shot a boar with a 44 mag at 20 feet. hit the sheild and watch it bounced off..

i got it with a second shot...

zooker