Charged by a hog!

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At Tioga Preserve in PA, this past Saturday.

Now, I know most of you are thinking it's a canned hunt and blah blah blah. And yeah, it aint real hunting, but they are trapped wild and then transported there. And besides, none of that makes a difference when a 225 pound hog comes running at you full steam from 50 yards.

That's 225 pounds of snarling, jaw popping, growling, insanely angry eyed venom...all muscle and snout and wire brush for hair, a living torpedo of a beast, hell bent on making my day way worse than I could have imagined...

And I never felt so ALIVE :D

It was absolutely breathtaking, the most exciting few seconds I've ever had while hunting, without a doubt...deer hunting will never be the same! Wow, I think all I wanna hunt from now on is dangerous game! What a rush, I tell ya...

I make no excuses; it was my own faullt...I got nervous and hit it in the ham on my first shot (I am usually much better, I swear :o). Came charging at us, and I finally dropped it at 15 yards after missing once, blowing off its bottom right tusk with the next round, which stopped him and spun him broadside and then I was finally able to spine him. Still required a finishing off shot, point blank.

Was using a Marlin 30-30 XLR with hornady leverevolution rounds. Hell of a lot of damage from that little round; I was really impressed...

Anyway, the place is awesome, the lodge/house very comfortable, the food is phenomenal & beyond plentiful, the guides are excellent & everyone is nice as all hell. Definitely plan on going back, and I recommend it whole heartedly.

My buddy got, swear to gawd, a 400 pounder, with a compound. It was fixing to charge him as well right before he shot!

Lemme know if anyone cares about seeing pics and I will post them. You won't believe the steaks that came off of my buddy's boar!
 
How big do hawgs get? Will your 30-30 go end to end, on a 400 pound hog????? So you hunt with solids, not HP's.????

Friend in Texas says my old 454 works pretty good on hawgs, but, since you almost always are shooting at their a... errr tails, he likes his 505 gibbs from that angle....
 
There's nothing like the adrenalin rush you get from a large charging boar. Hopefully next time you will still have the adrenalin rush but without the nervousness & be able to drop him in one with your 30/30. The 30/30 is plenty powerful for even the largest boars at short to medium distances if hit correctly. If you were using a 505 that day none of your initial shots would have been fatal, & I think it would be doubtful if you could fire 3 quick shots as quickly from a 505, compared to your 30-30. How large an area are you talking about hunting in?
 
Will your 30-30 go end to end, on a 400 pound hog?????
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I shot literally dozens of wild pigs with a 30-30 before I got my 7X57, and I never had one ounce of trouble with being underpowered. Not as much OOMPH as the 8mm RemMag, but then the recoil didn't maim me, either. Pigs are not bulletproof. And they seldom charge. They're more interested in getting away.
 
Hi,

Socrates: No, I was hunting with the Hornady Leverevolution rounds, and holy cow, what a boat load of damage those little rounds did! 50 yard shot in the ham literally destroyed almost 3/4 of it (225 pounder).

And no caliber - not even a 458 - would have killed the piggy any quicker or made it suffer less, having been hit in the ham. It was my bad shot placement.

Oh, maybe I should have clarified; I hit it broadside in the ham on the first shot, not from the back.

It was definitely nice to have a low recoiling, fast cycling 30-30 when it was charging...the only thing I would have preferred more is maybe a dependable, low recoiling semi-auto, with a red dot or a holosight.

And I also learned that I will NEVER hunt these bad boys again without a sidearm strapped to my waist as a very last resort backup (I left the 1911 in the trunk; never thought I would actually need it, and that was my first mistake), and learning to shoot much better and quickly from hunting positions (instead of just from the bench) goes without saying. Easier said than done, tho, when the closest rifle range is an hour's drive away.

Not sure of the size of the land we hunted on, but it was pretty big, with both a huge open field and a large wooded area. The hogs definitely liked to hide in the woods, which was very thick vegetation (end of June) so it made it pretty challenging...

I can't even tell you how many fallow deer they have, but the guide said the count is at about 400.

They also had lots of other game...
 
Is the meat from your buddy's 400 pound hog any good?
My buddy shot a 450 pound boar and the meat was worthless.
It stunk so bad when you cooked the sausage that you had to leave the kitchen.
Threw the sausage to the dog and he wouldn't eat it.
 
OMG, the meat on the 400 pounder is simply D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S! Just like store bought pork, light colored meat. I haven't tried the one I shot yet, but I will tonight, a side by side comparison. The one I shot is a much darker
meat...

I'm pretty sure it has to do with the fact that they do have to feed them in order to keep them alive, and they feed them leftover sugarbeets from a cannery. Mmmmmmm, delicious!
 
Wild hog is pork... if it is not handled well after the kill it is spoiled pork and will stink when cooked...
While hogs often run for freedom rather than charge, it is often the other way around! They know how to fight and often choose the fight instinct over flight or just opt to throw a little stick and git in the mix! I have seen a pig of only 60 pounds run between my son's legs and just throw his head as he went thru and slit his new jeans from knee to knee in an instant... Junior thought he got castrated!:eek: Don't live in fear of pigs but NEVER let your guard down. I had an account as a trapper in a place where the lots sold for a million bucks yet you were not safe going out to get the morning paper before daylight!
Brent
 
I just finished a dinner of pork chops and spare ribs, holy piggy it was good! No gamey taste whatsoever.

The place skins them as fast as you can imagine, in a blur of activity, then places them in a cooler overnight that goes down to 35 degrees, then buthcers it the next morning with a bandsaw. All very professional and excellently done.

I'll post pics soon...
 
There are several reasons that pork will stink.

As mentioned, big hogs which translates into older hogs. Breeding boars will smell to high heaven but cant even compare to the meat from a sow in heat.

Best to take the big 'uns for skull mounts and kill the smaller ones for meat.
 
One benefit to hog doggin' and live capture is the ability to "clean 'em out" a while in a pen and than when they and/or I are ready it is just handled as a farm pig. I have had sausage and ham from a 300 pound boar that was good.
Brent
 
Wild hog is pork... if it is not handled well after the kill it is spoiled pork and will stink when cooked
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The bigger boars in these parts will stink whether their alive, dead, soaked in (place whatever you think would get rid of that smell here), frozen, bbq'd, roasted, fried or cremated. All the sows I've shot have been great.
 
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