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25-06-2017, 15:48 #11
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Re: Here we go again
SSG or LG?....Makes no difference.
Use over 15m and you could have problems.I have had LG pellets flatten on a frontal head shot on a pig and fail to penetrate the skull at 10m.
I have also had SSG penetrate to only just through the skin of a pigs shoulder at 25m.
Used though within its limitations,either are OK.
I have lost count of the number of bushpig i have shot with a shotgun...the last one was a big boar that wanted to eat me and circumstances found me on the receiving end with only no.4"s in the O/U.The first shot at 12m glanced off his skull and cut a non lethal groove through the skin on his back.The second shot at about 12 inches punched a caliber size hole in his skull and fortunately ended it.
The main reason i take a shotgun after a possibly irate pig is because of its natural pointabillity at close range,not because of the pellet spread.
For some reason Treeman now refuses to fetch pigs for me at night with his 9mm.Might have something to do with his near death experience stuck up a tree with an empty pistol.Either that or he has no sense of adventure at all.Some people.
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25-06-2017, 15:56 #12
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Re: Here we go again
Thanks pre64. Slugs would be a good option then? I've hunted many warthog but somehow bushpig sounds much more exciting.
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25-06-2017, 16:02 #13
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25-06-2017, 16:05 #14
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25-06-2017, 16:09 #15
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Re: Here we go again
grasbuffel...Ja.There is no question on the penetration ability of slugs.
They also have the advantage of you being able to stretch the effective range over buckshot.
Warthog are foreplay...bushpig are the real deal.
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25-06-2017, 16:10 #16
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Re: Here we go again
WCC...go for it.All on the topic
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25-06-2017, 19:05 #17
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25-06-2017, 19:46 #18
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Re: Here we go again
Thats a pretty Hog. They are about at the moment in the EC being so dry they seem to be moving about a lot. Ive bumped into a few during the day and even more at night in the last month. This brace i shot about 3 weeks back at 3 in the afternoon. Caliber 22-250. Not the best pic but all i have.
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25-06-2017, 19:57 #19
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