Taking a trip this weekend to go hunt wild hogs here in Cali. Going down around Santa Barbara on a few square miles of private land. It's supposedly overrun with russian/feral hybrids.

Taking the .270 out again. Hits hard and I can aim on-hair out to 300 yards.

When you guys don't hear from me for a couple days, now you know why.

 

Good luck. We've been getting absolutely nothing out here..

 

Take a side arm with some oomph to it just in case


Nothing argues with a .44 for very long

 

Take pictures too

 

is this something you would eat? or just shoot?

what does it taste like?

i only hunt birds, never went after anything big.

 

You need to come out to Arkansas and kill some damn hogs, I'm tired of hearing about the crap.

Also, last summer a trailer of live hogs toppled over and releases an *** ton of hogs on I-40 outside of Little Rock. A couple of weeks ago the girlfriend and I was driving down the interstate and saw a ~200lb pig running down the access road beside the highway. I don't know if it had anything to do with those that escaped that toppled over truck, but only in Arkansas will you see a hog running down the interstate.

 

You can definitely eat wild hog.

To me, wild hog tastes just like a regular pig, but it has a really 'gamey' taste is the best way I can describe it.

 

.270 ftw. always wanted to go hog huntin'. Pics!

 

Don't worry, I highly doubt r3d will only be packin one gun.

 

I like how in the title it says hog killin and not hunting as hunting implys a chance of failure

 

Tastes like pork. A tad leaner and stronger flavored. They eat wild food too so they take on a little bit of a wild flavor. You can reduce the wild flavor by soaking it in milk or by freezing, slicing thin and using a mildly acidic sauce (wine or juice based).

K. Let's plan us a hunt. It'd be bitchin' to do Arkansas pig and turkey. Don't spose you get much gator action up your way do ya? I'd love a gator skin on the wall (and some gator steaks)

really gamey.. meh. A little but nothing like Dall sheep or pronghorn.

The man knows me. I go very few places with just 1 gun... the bathroom, the garage, to bed, etc..

Well yeah. Duh. Not to toot my own horn but I'm a pretty decent shot. Nothing I can identify as wildlife is safe at any range that's close enough for species identification. I know I can hit a paper plate size target at 500m standing up with the 270 if there's no wind. Laying down, quite a bit further. It's a sweet shooting little sumbitch.

Apart from that, if they're as overpopulated as we're told, it's less a matter of finding them than a matter of not getting found by them first.

 

Im calling PETA you monster!































j/k...happy killing!

 

PETA = people eating tasty animals

 

Last time I ate a hog it was loaded with birdshot. Really good though once you got past the bb's. It was smoked too.My favorite.

 

 

Is that Olivia Munn?

 

dunno... id prolly do her if i had the chance though... and her friend can watch.

lol

 

Damm. Poor feller probably trying to find a place to live now, I'll eat a pig anyday but I actually hate to see a trailor full of them going down the highway. we know their plight, it's good that they don't.. Probably better off than running and trying to live outside his normal routine of mud and slop he's used to having..

 

i favor the .30-06 round, for obvious reasons. (that, and i know where to get a box of 20 rounds for 17 bucks)

i also like the 5.56 / .223 round, it has no kick to it, and can go pretty far pretty accurately.

 

nah gotta go farther east

 

South Carolina has gators in the swamps...

 

.30-6 is retarded for pig. Sorry. I'll still walk the brush with my 30-30 and .357 on my side. I've got more pig kills with my Ruger Blackhawk then I do my Marlin 30-30. And I'm a damned good shot with either one.

Dad will carry his .270 and .44 mag. Incase something happens with me. But seeing as I'm 23 years younger, and a little meaner, I don't mind to jump into a pigs ground, as long as theres 6 or less. I have gotten into a nasty spot with about 9 of them and gotten saved from dear old dad and his .270 on the hill.

 

in some cases yes. but there are those really huge hogs out there. i'd rather have it and not need it, then not have it and need it.

 

I use my bazooka. y'all are bitches. I dont even have to cook the hog, every piece of it I find after I shoot it is nicely char-grilled to perfection.

 

This post is full of Epic win.

 

30-06 isn't retarded... neither is the .270. The guns I brought reflected the varied terrains I was going to be in. The 270 is good as far as I can see, my Glock with .357sig barrel attached was fine if I happened inside 10yrds and I brought my 12ga semi-auto with barnes all copper slugs for those 30-100yrds shots in heavy cover. I also brought a .243 in case the pigs were really small and at modest ranges.

Just saying this gun is bad/good and that gun is good/bad, that's retarded. You pick your weapon based on your needs. I had fully 8 guns with me. Enough for any situation.

That said, SnT did pick about the most versatile pair of guns for the area. 30-30 and .44 are in fact probably responsible for more dead game animals than any other rounds, and with good reason. They're not too much and not too little and they work their best at ranges you expect to encounter game while hunting, pretty damned close to not all that far (0-150yrds).

Hogs were there in force but were staying on neighbor properties that are "hunter hostile". I could'a killed a few with a well thrown rock but they just wouldn't come across the property line. Since we didn't get any legal shots at hogs we went rabbit killin instead. Murdered a bunch of jack rabbits and ground squirrels and pack rats. Had a pretty good time.

SnTBakosFinest: Any time you wanna go huntin, LMK. I'll join ya.