Hog with cast

[Lefty SRH]

FINALLY, got a hog with a sixgun! The shot was about 40yds with a MiHa 45 colt Ruger only penta boolit backed by some H110.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190602/e67ef3499ef8d11bee69a2076e98f68f.jpg


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[Tom_in_AZ]

Awesome job!


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[Markopolo]

Very very cool!!!! Back story.. backstory!!!!

:drinks:

[dangitgriff]

A dead hog is a good hog. Nicely done!
That one was already nursing piglets, looks like.

[6bg6ga]

So, do you eat it now?

[Lefty SRH]

So, do you eat it now?

I did not take this one out of the field. I generally dont mess with the hogs after shot. They carry some really bad stuff that nearly killed a friend of the family years ago. It took a long time for doctors to get the correct diagnosis and the drugs that saved his life screwed him up for the rest of his life. He is now disabled. He cant work or even drive a car.

[6bg6ga]

I can't say I blame you. I wouldn't try to eat it either. Pork doesn't cost that much in the supermarket.

[Texas by God]

Well done, sir.

[Buzz Krumhunger]

Agreed. They are filthy creatures. I’ve seen them eating stuff that would gag a buzzard.

[Thumbcocker]

Nice Bisley.

[richhodg66]

We don't have hogs here, but one day, I'll take a deer or two with my Black Hawk in .45 Colt. My favorite handgun cartridge.

[dangitgriff]

I did not take this one out of the field. I generally dont mess with the hogs after shot. They carry some really bad stuff that nearly killed a friend of the family years ago. It took a long time for doctors to get the correct diagnosis and the drugs that saved his life screwed him up for the rest of his life. He is now disabled. He cant work or even drive a car.

Brucellosis is a common culprit. It’s not limited to feral hogs, though, so to be safe should we leave all elk, bison, moose, caribou, deer and bears in the woods and fields where they were dispatched?
https://www.cdc.gov/brucellosis/exposure/hunters.html

[richhodg66]

None of the ones you listed are nuisance animals and are a lot less likely to carry diseases than feral hogs.

[dangitgriff]

There’s an argument to be made about cut-and-drop culling of destructive nuisance animals, to be sure. Not to mention fur trappers/pelt hunters, like coyotes.
The link above is to the CDC regarding brucellosis in game animals.
We eat what we hunt here, I thought that’s what we’re supposed to do? Are hunters going soft in this country?

[Buzz Krumhunger]

There’s a reason feral hogs aren’t considered game animals in Texas. I’ve trapped and killed hundreds of feral hogs as agricultural pests in our orchard. I have no more compunction about killing them than I would about killing a rat or a cockroach. Young hogs weighing under 75 lbs and that aren't infested with lice are offered to friends for use but the big nasty ones get picked up with the tractor and dumped in the brush at the back of the ranch.

[Texas by God]

It's hard to eat ten pigs a week I don't care how big you are. We're not going soft, we're at war with the hogs. I've eaten several but I generally leave the carcasses to nature's clean up crew- especially in the hot weather. Not Game Animals.

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[dangitgriff]

It's hard to eat ten pigs a week I don't care how big you are. We're not going soft, we're at war with the hogs. I've eaten several but I generally leave the carcasses to nature's clean up crew- especially in the hot weather. Not Game Animals.

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No offense meant, I just wasn’t raised to waste anything.
The Florida FWC put a bounty on the large constrictors in the Everglades wreaking havoc on the native habitat...maybe they ought to do the same for feral hogs throughout the state. They’re considered game animals here. All the public WMA’s I’ve been in is torn up in large areas from those pigs...they’ve gone nocturnal, because no night hunting is allowed. They lay up during the day deeeeep in the cypress hammocks. A long drag back to the truck and I’m not as young as I used to be [emoji1783]
—Griff

[richhodg66]

No offense meant, I just wasn’t raised to waste anything.
The Florida FWC put a bounty on the large constrictors in the Everglades wreaking havoc on the native habitat...maybe they ought to do the same for feral hogs throughout the state. They’re considered game animals here. All the public WMA’s I’ve been in is torn up in large areas from those pigs...they’ve gone nocturnal, because no night hunting is allowed. They lay up during the day deeeeep in the cypress hammocks. A long drag back to the truck and I’m not as young as I used to be [emoji1783]
—Griff

You have a point there. I read Texans and other southerners whining about hogs all the time "they're ruining everything and out of control! What'll we do?"

If anybody says they'd like to hunt them, though the answer is "That'll be $500 a day per hunter and only two hogs, any more than that are extra$$$".

Do you want them gone or not?

[richhodg66]

Back to the original topic, do you have a picture of that bullet? Did you happen to recover it? Don't need the load, but I'd be interested in what the muzzle velocity was.

[Lefty SRH]

I dont have a recovered bullet. I think it exited. Muzzle velocity last time I checked was 1150fps.

[Lefty SRH]

I dont want to hear the debate about waste. When it come to MY health (and my wife, brucellosis can be passed to your partner) the risk of contracting brucellosis....there is no debate! Yes, I know its not limited to just hogs, they carry lots of other really bad stuff too. Its my choice!
These hogs are on private property and are considered private property problems by the state of Alabama!
When I hunt other edible wild game they are not wasted.

[frank505]

We killed lots of hogs on Big Daddy’s ranch in the hill country. Never touched a one, the risk of disease is too great. Same for all the hogs we kill in Florida. Kill them and kill some more. Never ending varmint it seems.

[GregLaROCHE]

I can't say I blame you. I wouldn't try to eat it either. Pork doesn't cost that much in the supermarket.

Store bought just Doesn’t taste as good to me. Got to cook it for a long time to be sure and kill off any bad stuff that might have gotten in them.

[RED BEAR]

Good shooting. And nice gun have one almost like it but in 44.

[Texas by God]

And don’t worry about the orphaned piglets. They’re probably already breeding by now.:-/

[Abert Rim]

Nicely done. I'll pick up my stainless 5.5 inch Bisley in .45 Colt tomorrow.
While I understand that hogs are totally invasive in TX, MO and other states, I'd love to take a couple of 60-pounders to dress, BBQ and or smoke. Only reason I would travel to the Lone Star state next door and pay for the chance to hunt them. Not interested in killing -- interested in meat. That's just me. I know that many if not most are fed to the coyotes and buzzards.

[dangitgriff]

And don’t worry about the orphaned piglets. They’re probably already breeding by now.:-/

They can drop litters at eight months.
Aporkalypse Now!
https://youtu.be/pVecBww1vcE

[richhodg66]

Lefty SRH, do you have a picture of the bullet type you used? Forgive my ignorance, I don't know what a penta point is.

[Lefty SRH]

Penta is a 5 star shaped shallow hollow point. Its a MiHa mold
Ill post something for you Rich

[DougGuy]

Texas Governor Abbot just this week signed a bill where you don't need a license to kill hogs. When the state starts paying a bounty on them, lots of things will change, you will see an even more concerted effort to corral them up by entire sounders and dispose of them.

Good shooting LeftySRH! The absolute best tamale I ever had was javelina, down in Texas of course..

[Abert Rim]

Doug, you don't say? Javelina? I have heard so many bad things about the meat that I haven't considered hunting them.

[Lefty SRH]

Lefty SRH, do you have a picture of the bullet type you used? Forgive my ignorance, I don't know what a penta point is.

Rich, heres the MP Penta hollow point I used.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190605/9c228ae6e53e40f399fb0c8db5df2b88.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190605/7ddd819edda586f0cec04e93b66ed99d.jpg


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[richhodg66]

Nice! I'll probably just use a Kieth style bullet when I get around to deer hunting with the .45, but that thing sure likes it would get the job done.

[GregLaROCHE]

Rich, heres the MP Penta hollow point I used.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190605/9c228ae6e53e40f399fb0c8db5df2b88.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190605/7ddd819edda586f0cec04e93b66ed99d.jpg


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That’s a nice looking hollow point !

[Smoke4320]

Congrats on collecting a field plow. Kill all you can

[Lefty SRH]

The pin to make the penta hollow point usually come with the MiHa molds.

[nagantguy]

Nice revolver- great shot also love my MIha penta hp molds have them in a few flavors, 452, 431 and 360. Sized proper they feed lots of rifles and pistols and revolvers around here.

[Schreck5]

Yep, never could understand that kind of reasoning.

[JAC43]

Lefty, your HP bullets look great! Can you share any tips for casting with this mold? Pot temp, mold prep, etc?

[Tripplebeards]

Did it tip right over when shot?

[skeettx]

" Hog with Cast"

First thought "was the cast on the front or back leg" :) :)

[dangitgriff]

Blame pig tastes so good ya gotta eat it one leg at a time!
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[bayjoe]

Do feral hogs kill and eat pythons?

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=s: Hi Bayjoe.Don`t know about that,but I saw a picture of a python that killed and ate a 4 foot gator.The snake did not survive.Its eyes were bigger than it`s stomach.It split open from the grub overload.Saw another picture of another snake that ate a small deer.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[willicd76]

Do feral hogs kill and eat pythons?

Don't know about pythons but they dang sure eat rattlesnakes!