Going Pig Hunting in 12 Days!

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taylorce1

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Heading to Branson MO for Memorial day weekend and found a guy that will take me out pig hunting just across the boder in AR. May or may not get any pigs but I'm going to try to take them with my little 6x47 Savage that I built. Accuracy is pretty good with this little rifle and it shoots better than me most days, but I got it dialed in with a load around 1.5" so it should be good enough to keep minuet of pig out to 100 yards. I ordered some Rhino bullets to try but they didn't come in yet and I would like a little tougher bullet than the NBT. I'm only making 3066 fps at the muzzle so I'll ear shoot them nasty ol' porkers and the NBT should work just fine.

Here is the rifle I'll be using. Stevens 200, 6x47, VXII 4-12X40AO scope:

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Here is the load I'll be using to hunt pigs. The flyer on the left is my slowest shot across the chrony, but it was the idiot behind the trigger that put it there. 26.5 gr H332, CCI 450 primer, 70 gr Nosler BT:

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This load was just starting to show pressure signs but was by far my most accurate group with the Sierra bullets. Just had a few to try that a friend gave me, will try some more of these later to see how a 5 shot group will do. My primer was starting to flatten and crater, no extraction problems. 27.1 gr H322, CCI 450 primer, 70 gr Sierra BK:

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Awesome, good luck! I'm going on a pig shoot in June (I say shoot because it is a shoot, not a hunt, but they are still wild and I was charged during my last shoot, so it can be pretty exciting)...
 
I'm just stoked because I put this rifle together myself. Only thing I didn't do was chamber and contour the barrel. I'm not ready to tackle building any other rifle but a Savage right now but I'm sure having fun with this one.

Just wish the Rhino Bullets I'd orderd, would get here so I could try them. They are the lightest mono-metal bullet I can find weighing in at 75 grains to try in this rifle. I'm not blazing hot on my speeds out of this rifle and that is the only reason I'm trying the Nosler BT's for this hunt.
 
Pigs are a problem here. Missouri statute requires that any hunter in the field who sees a pig is to shoot said pig right then and there. I'm not sure that there is a criminal penalty for letting it get away because you don't want to interrupt your deer hunt, but the point stands that the DOC is taking extreme measures to cull wild hogs here. Arkansas is in bad shape. It's a crime in many states to set hogs free, or run them on land that isn't completely enclosed.

Hope you have a good time. Are there plans to eat those ferals, or are they going to be left for scavengers?
 
Pigs are a problem here. Missouri statute requires that any hunter in the field who sees a pig is to shoot said pig right then and there. I'm not sure that there is a criminal penalty for letting it get away because you don't want to interrupt your deer hunt, but the point stands that the DOC is taking extreme measures to cull wild hogs here. Arkansas is in bad shape. It's a crime in many states to set hogs free, or run them on land that isn't completely enclosed.
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Looks like I need to move :eek: :o :)
 
We used to drive from memphis to Joplin MO several times a year back in the early 80s, probably 20-30 or so total trips.

Those were some weird trips.

on one trip, I plowed through an entire pack of dogs at 70+ mph on a country highway around 2:00 am. things were probably chasing deer, they blasted out of a field just as I blew through them.

On another trip, we were going through a small town somewhere in the northwest section, and a little brown sow led a litter of over a half dozen piglets across the road in front of us. Only in arkansas would you have traffic stop for a family of pigs, I figure.

Yes, bring yer pig shootin skills to here and points south. Hogs are nasty, and there are too many of them.
 
Have fun...it should be a blast....

May I ask why you decided on a 6x47 for rifle. Just curios....

Hard to imagine someone leaving CO to go hunting. ;)
 
This is the ozarks. Every county will have a half dozen places to process meat.

Your butcher is going to tell you whether or not you can eat the things you take in. Get them young, and they are supposed to be good meat, but the old ones can be pretty foul.
 
May I ask why you decided on a 6x47 for rifle. Just curios....
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Wanted to build something that was cheap to shoot that would handle 55 grain NBT 6mm bullets. I had a ton of them and my .243 wouldn't shoot them well. I thought about using the .223 case for my cartridge, but decided on the .222 Rem Mag just because of the slightly larger case capacity. I've enjoyed shooting this rifle I just want to see what it can do and that is why I've decided to try it on this hog hunt.
 
My wife has take a pile of them with a .243 using the 100 gr Sierra GK. While a 70 grain seems light, if you really do head shoot it will not be a problem. Still a sturdier bullet with a little more weight might be better, at least untill the monos arrive..................

And don't let them tell you big hogs are bad. It'll be warm so carry ice, gut them quick and get them to a cooler pronto. Should not be a problem.
 
My wife has take a pile of them with a .243 using the 100 gr Sierra GK. While a 70 grain seems light, if you really do head shoot it will not be a problem. Still a sturdier bullet with a little more weight might be better, at least untill the monos arrive
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Not to worried about the cartridge doing the job, just with 80+ grain bullets I've been running out of magazine length. So to run 80 grains or above I've got to loose powder room to make it feed from the magazine. Plus my rifle twist isn't fast enough to use bullets over 85 grains effectively.

Talked with people more knowlegeable than myslef over at Nosler about this bullet. They felt that the 70 grain would be a good choice since I can't drive them at the speeds a .243 or 6mm Rem can. Would love to see an Accubond come out in the 70-75 grain range for this cartridge but didn't get the feeling they were even cosidering offering one.
 
Have Fun

We really don't have a problem here on the Carolina coast just yet! A good thing in the long run, but not as much fun as you guys get. The little ones are much better eating!
 
I have shot over a dozen hogs, in all cases I made a lung shot.
I never used a bullet as small as what you are shooting, I had a 30-06, or else, a round ball from a .50 muzzleloader.
The lung shot always worked great for me and I never had a hog go over 75 yards.

I suspect that your little bullet would also do well on a lung shot. I never shot a pig bigger than 150 pounds.

Good luck and good eating!
 
I'm jealous, three hog hunts cancelled this year. Shoot one for me, make it two!
Rifle will do fine, just remember to choose your shots carefully.
 
Sounds like fun, but if you get into a group of them you're going to want something in a semi-auto I think. Unless you can rack that bolt pretty quick. I'm too slow with a bolt gun to get more than one shot ot with any accuracy.
Good luck!
 
I just copied and pasted this from another web site about our trip to Branson.

I did go hunting at Wranglerup Outfitters and while I didn't see any pigs I had a great time there with the kid, I'm getting married in September and my future wife Anne has a great daughter that loves to spend time with me and we have a great time together.

We didn't see any of the sites that everyone suggested the first day was spent having breakfast with Anne's aunt and uncle and just figureing our way around Branson. Hannah spotted the Ducks so we had to take a ride on one of thoes old amphibious Army 2-1/2 tons out onto Table Rock Lake. After the Duck tour was over we then prepared for our pig hunt down to Alpena AR. We got back shortly after midnight as Hannah's imagination got the best of her after 5 hours in a tree stand and all the night noises she was sure a bear was climbing up to get her. When she couldn't stand it anymore we went home but "it was time well wasted" to quote a line from Brad Paisley song.

The next day we did a little canoe trip on a private pond in Stone Bridge where Anne's aunt and uncle live. Here they are getting ready to paddle across the pond. Hannah really didn't enjoy the canoe a whole lot to begin with but she figured out that she wouldn't fall out after a while.

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We then went fishing on a stocked pond on the property that afternoon. I still can't get Hannah to take her own fish off the hook and she will not hold a catfish yet. Here is the catfish she caught on her little Scooby Doo pole I had to hold it up for the picure.

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Here is about as close as she wanted to get to a large mouth she caught as well.

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The next day after church with Aunt Teenie and Uncle Charlie, I had arranged for a guided trout fishing trip under Table Rock dam. Hannah really enjoyed this trip and caught the most fish of anyone, Mom and I were too busy watching her to catch many fish. Plus she enjoyed this boat trip upriver far more than she ever enjoyed the canoe.

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Plus, she landed the biggest fish of the day a 19.75" 4lb rainbow, she really wanted a 20" fish so she could keep it. Didn't matter though it was a great day and I'm sure her memories would last longer than any fish she could bring home to eat!
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We just didn't have enough time to do all the things that we wanted to do.
 
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