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Offline rickt300

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Handi in 223 gets a hog
« on: October 26, 2009, 06:21:21 AM »
I usually keep my Superlite 223 barrel on my Handi as a truck gun. It is topped with a 4x Weaver and I shoot Hornady 60 gr. HP's in it. These bullets were bought bulk and have a cannelure. The scope was rebuilt at the Weaver rebuilding place and has a post/crosshair reticle. I am pushing this bullet to 3000fps and it has a 1 in 12 twist. The "hunt" was the easy part. I had some feeders to fill so I picked up my friend steve and 16 bags of corn, then off to the lease. I unlocked and opened the gate, got in the truck pulled in, Steve gets out to close the gate and gets back in, he says casually "there's a couple hogs out there and points. Sure enough! I dig my rifle out from behind the seat, put a shell in it, kill the truck, get out and using the hood for a rest put the tip of the post just under the smallest hogs ear and squeeze off. "THAP" down she goes. A pretty brown sow of around 100 pounds. The bullet did not exit and I only skinned her up far enough on the neck to cut her head off so no damage assesment. The effectiveness of the combination rests soley on the packaged meat in my freezer.
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2009, 06:23:20 AM »
I don't know if you've been reading posts on this subject or not, but you have to have at least a 300WM to kill a hog.......... ;D :D
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2009, 06:52:40 AM »
Quote from: mechanic on October 26, 2009, 06:23:20 AM
I don't know if you've been reading posts on this subject or not, but you have to have at least a 300WM to kill a hog.......... ;D :D

Crap, you mean the 100+ I've killed with my .223 are still alive?!
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2009, 06:54:44 AM »
Way to Go! I got some maters from my garden. How bout some BLTs? How far a shot was it. I need to try some heavier bullets in my 1:12 Superlight.
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2009, 07:00:38 AM »
Congrats Rick, nice! Sure wish we had hogs around here, I'd get a lot more hunting in!!  :-\

Mike, the 64gr Win power point, 63gr Sierra #1370 and the 60gr Nosler Partition all have a good track record in the 1:12" barrels and for deer in the .223.  ;)

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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2009, 08:28:04 AM »
It was close enough to 100 yards to call it that. Actually I was surprised at how well the Superlite 223 barrel shoots. The Hornady 60gr. HP is a pretty tough bullet actually. I have had it exit on broadside shots that didn't involve shoulder on deer. The hogs are a + and - deal, they damage feeders and deer don't move a lot when they are around but on the other hand the smaller ones eat just fine and for off season hunting they are hard to beat.
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2009, 08:34:16 AM »
Quote from: quickdtoo on October 26, 2009, 07:00:38 AM
Sure wish we had hogs around here, I'd get a lot more hunting in!!  :-\
Tim

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Hogs and prairie dogs! We'd be in huntin' heaven.
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2009, 02:38:48 AM »
Quote from: quickdtoo on October 26, 2009, 07:00:38 AM
Congrats Rick, nice! Sure wish we had hogs around here, I'd get a lot more hunting in!!  :-\

Mike, the 64gr Win power point, 63gr Sierra #1370 and the 60gr Nosler Partition all have a good track record in the 1:12" barrels and for deer in the .223.  ;)

Tim

Tim, why don't you do what the early settlers would have done? Just release a few of your barnyard pigs and in a few years, voila, a permanant and ever growing hog supply!

On second thoughts, they would probably call that environmental terrorism these days and they would haul you off and we would never hear from you again...back to the drawing board.

Where I live in Missouri, hogs are open season and public pest #1. I have the hogs, but lack the shooting resources. You have the shooting resources but lack the game. Life just sucks sometimes. ;D
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2009, 05:20:27 AM »
There are some feral hogs up on the Olympic peninsula and sightings have been reported north of me, but everyone is tight lipped about any hot spots. ::)

Tim

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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2009, 05:34:39 AM »
Jmayton        You avitar shows a nice hog. Did you shoot him or run over him. ;D ;D

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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2009, 05:59:06 AM »
Quote from: quickdtoo on October 26, 2009, 07:00:38 AM
Congrats Rick, nice! Sure wish we had hogs around here, I'd get a lot more hunting in!!  :-\


Here in Western Arkansas, we seem to have tons of them.. The Fish and Game Commission has declared all out war on them.  And for good reason, they are REALLY destructive.  On my farm, we've seen the wallows and destruction they leave in their path, coupled with the fact that they will eat just about anything from corn to newborn fawns.  Last summer, the 'missus and I were killing them right off the front porch.  I've heard that they're pretty good eating, but we didn't.  We just took them off to the back pasture.   They seem to show up anywhere there is a free meal... In our case, they were eating the feed left behind by the horses.

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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2009, 06:08:21 AM »
 Yup Rick;
  Ypou need at least a .300 WM...or you can use a bayonet as my Marine grandson does. See photo;
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2009, 07:13:14 AM »
J_Guy ,

 Where in western AR. are you ?  I'm in the river valley area .. And next 150 pound or smaller hog you or the missus take ... Eat it , that is some of the best pig you can get and the ribs are top of my list as far as wild game meat goes. ...

 I usually go to Oklahoma to hunt hogs , but do remember after modern gun last year reading about Fort Chaffee sending out a S.O.S for hunters to come out and kill the estimated 1000 +/- hogs they had out on the base.


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 Attached is my 257 pound hog that dropped with one shot to a bull barreled handy with the 75 grain Hornady TAP round ( the twist was 1 in 9 ) Shot was behind the shoulder.
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2009, 07:58:50 AM »
Quote from: Default on October 29, 2009, 07:13:14 AM
J_Guy ,

 Where in western AR. are you ?  I'm in the river valley area .. And next 150 pound or smaller hog you or the missus take ... Eat it , that is some of the best pig you can get and the ribs are top of my list as far as wild game meat goes. ...

 

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    Small world.. Our place is NE of Natural Dam, Take AR 59 North of Van Buren about 16 or 17 miles or so.  We are back in the boonies surrounded mostly by the Ozark Nat'l Forrest.  My closest neighbor is trying to trap them on his place, fatten them up a bit, and slaughter them for freezer meat. They sure are fun to shoot though  ;D.

BTW... Nice looking hog in your pic.. The ones we were killing earlier in the year were about 75 to 125 lbs... I haven't seen them or their signs on my place in several months.  We were hunting them pretty hard in the summer, and I think they left out OR took up residence on the neighbor's place.. If you get the chance to hunt the forest, they are definately there. During modern gun, you can legally kill as many as you like.  Ain't Arkansas great ?? Wooo Pig Sooie!!

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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2009, 09:00:46 AM »
Jon,

 Yeah small world ...  Yeah those 75 to 100 pounders are great eating ;)


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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2009, 11:06:23 AM »
jim36, I shot him, ran over him, shot him again, drug him behind the jeep, stuck him three times, then shot him again. . . because I didn't have a 300WM.

Seriously, three shots from a .223.  One bad neck shot, one to immobilze (which he was dying from) and then one to finish him off quickly.  If the first had been about 3 inches higher, I wouldn't have needed the others.  Oh well, I'm not perfect all the time.
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2009, 12:42:11 PM »
Here's heaping a lot of good for you for your kill. Well done.   Congrats
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Re: Handi in 223 gets a hog
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2009, 01:02:20 PM »
Quote from: ironglow on October 29, 2009, 06:08:21 AM
Yup Rick;
  Ypou need at least a .300 WM...or you can use a bayonet as my Marine grandson does. See photo;


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