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Post by ShooterMike on Feb 27, 2008 21:20:22 GMT
Are you dealing with feral pigs or wild boar? Different animals entirely. If the said animal will indeed "rip you a new one", maybe even killing you, why do you consider your life to be "sub-$300"? I'd bring a .45. If hunting in the U.S. they are on the same evolutionary tree. When released to the wild, most domestic breeds of hog will revert back to the wild state within 3-4 generations. That means being taller and lean and muscular, having a substantial gristle plate on the shoulders, having longer and coarser hair, and having long tusks in an elongated snout. And developing an "attitude" to go with the altered physical appearance. So in reality, in the wilds you will encounter individuals all along the evolutionary (or "de-evolutionary") track. Be prepared for any/all of them. Backup handguns should start at .44 Magnum as a baseline. I wouldn't even consider doing this without having a backup hunter with a reasonably heavy caliber rifle. Those recommendations are based on the wild hog population running from 100 to 400 lbs. With a few rare boars being even larger. For size comparisons, this one weighed a bit over 300 lbs. and the guy in the photo is 6'4" 260 lbs.  If the wild hog populations are smaller in stature in your area, then feel free to downgrade these recommendations. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 23:55:24 GMT
Or upgrade as neccesary. We had a ranger around here in california who shot down almost 500 lb boar that was causing trouble. It took 3 shots from his 7mm mag to stop that bugger's charge.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2008 2:00:31 GMT
wow, that is pretty hard core using a sword for boar. I thought hunting boar with a pistol was hairy. I do remember seeing a boar sword before that looked more like a spear with a hilt put on it. long and thin like an estoc with a spade at the tip. really strange looking.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2008 2:07:52 GMT
  Nuff Said. Sub 300 Sword just wont do it. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2008 2:29:28 GMT
I can't believe the size of those things, monsterous. I am not a hunter myself . since seeing a mini-series as a kid about sindney reilly where they did a pig hunt with pistols i have always had that in the back of my mind as being an interesting event. Seeing the size of these beasts really bings it into reality how challenging it would be to actually do. I have to say i would not like to attempt the task with a sword.
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Post by ShooterMike on Feb 28, 2008 16:01:11 GMT
Another point to make about using swords for this...
Since it is an extreme close quarters proposition that is not likely to happen without having a hog wounded in the first place (going back to the point of this being an adjunct weapon when bow hunting). You can always just restrict yourself to only engaging smaller hogs.
In that case, swords with good cutting and thrusting characteristics are called for.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2008 23:30:06 GMT
Actually, hogs grow at a different rate than most animals, and the top pic is legit, dont know about the bottom one. But they were both taken in the same area of Georiga, I believe, where a bunch of hogs were found that had gotten into the protein-enriched fish food of a nearby farm.
I just wouldnt trust my life to a sub-300 dollar sword, and you shoudnt either. Do I consider a lot of them worthy enough to be taken into battle? Yes, but there are better tools for the job of boar-slaying.
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Post by swordboy bringer of chaos on Feb 29, 2008 0:23:05 GMT
they dug up hoggzilla and it was on discovery and nat.geo. it was no hoax porky was freaken huge
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Post by swordboy bringer of chaos on Feb 29, 2008 1:31:18 GMT
sorry no I just watched the show and saw the bones and know my bacon from what nat.geo. said it was a domestic pigg that went ferrel after escaping from a farm they had that problem in w.va. when I lived there good hunten and good eaten
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2008 8:34:27 GMT
Hi
I have the cold steel Short Assegai spear, cuts as well as a katana, tough as hell,
and you can throw it, check out the cold steel dvd.
(in fact i have 2 spears)
mudguts
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2008 9:04:21 GMT
As those spear don't have crossguards, they are not very good against a charging boar. Cold steel does make a boar spear...but there are better out there for less money.
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