When I was stationed in California at Vandenberg AFB, the base itself was a game reserve and had boars. They’re bad @$$, don’t want one coming after you!
Looking at this video some may see the power of the .45ACP, personally I see the power of human stupidity aided with a big dollop of pure luck. During the engagement the “hunter” with the rifle looks like he panicked, missed his shot then tripped all over himself in his hast to leave the others behind. Then the other two put God knows how many rounds into the boar to stop it. Add to all this, with the way “Larry, Curly and Moe” were bunched up it’s a wonder that none of them ended up being shot in addition to the boar.
Mike — Shel, who sent me the video link, had just about exactly your same take on it. I hope he’ll also comment in detail soon. I think you’re both right on.
Comrade XJanuary 3, 2018 9:32 am
10mm in the G20 will do that job too.
E. Garrett PerryJanuary 3, 2018 9:51 am
Bell and Capstick are rolling their eyes so hard I can -hear- it.
Lots of feral hogs around these parts. It’s the only wild critter Texas landowners can hunt without a license, and the Legislature legalized shooting them from helicopters and balloons. Locally there’s a bounty for killing them, $20/ear. Unfortunately, they’re so prolific you have to kill 66% to 70% of them per year to keep their population from increasing.
The boars are 50% muscle and 50% mean.
The people who say “assault rifles” aren’t good for hunting haven’t hunted feral hogs.
I agree with Mike and Shel concerning their “technique.”
ExpatNJJanuary 3, 2018 10:21 am
“The bigger the wild animal, the bigger the bullet needed to kill it” – Unk.
Southern states have a big problem with feral hogs/boars. One man in Alabama had to use a .50 caliber handgun to take one down.
Yup, one guy was definitely downrange. I’m not sure what would have been worse, getting mauled by a po’d beast or blasted with a 45.
ShelJanuary 3, 2018 6:16 pm
I’ve watched this video a bunch of times and keep seeing something I missed. A few more times and I might see something else, but for now my impression is the following:
The video starts with the three hunters walking in single file. #1 in a gray shirt, #2 carrying a handgun, and #3 in a tan shirt. #2 stumbles slightly, and #3 stumbles multiple times. The obvious conclusion is neither should be up there. When they become aware of the hog, all three point their guns in its direction. As the hog charges, #1 (the only one we didn’t see stumble) slips & falls and slides down the hill in front of the charging hog. #2 fires his handgun with one hand at arm’s length while leaning back and trying to move away. He appears to continue firing almost to the point where #1 could become a backstop. #3 at first has his gun pointed in the correct general direction, but quickly decides he would rather leave and pivots to his left, sweeping #2 quite effectively with his muzzle in the process. After sliding past the path of the boar, #1 briefly has his firearm pointed in the hog’s direction.
Five shots ring out. Four are in a consistent cadence. The other, with a slightly muffled sound, rings out just before the last of the four. Before the end of the string is heard, the hog transitions almost instantaneously from a full speed run to a stop and a tumble.
I believe the four shots in cadence were fired by #2 with a technique so classically bad that it seems unlikely he made any effective hits, even more so considering he was using the caliber that Ted Nugent disdains. The muffled out of cadence shot must have been from #1’s rifle, muffled by comparison because it was pointed away from the recorder. I think it most likely that the rifle shot was the effective one, and it was the delay in sound travel that made it seem to have occurred after the boar started to fall. Recovered bullets might tell a different story, but I think it more likely that the recorder of the video simply noticed the handgun firing multiple times, saw the boar falling, and concluded the two had to be linked.
When I was stationed in California at Vandenberg AFB, the base itself was a game reserve and had boars. They’re bad @$$, don’t want one coming after you!
Looking at this video some may see the power of the .45ACP, personally I see the power of human stupidity aided with a big dollop of pure luck. During the engagement the “hunter” with the rifle looks like he panicked, missed his shot then tripped all over himself in his hast to leave the others behind. Then the other two put God knows how many rounds into the boar to stop it. Add to all this, with the way “Larry, Curly and Moe” were bunched up it’s a wonder that none of them ended up being shot in addition to the boar.
Mike — Shel, who sent me the video link, had just about exactly your same take on it. I hope he’ll also comment in detail soon. I think you’re both right on.
10mm in the G20 will do that job too.
Bell and Capstick are rolling their eyes so hard I can -hear- it.
Lots of feral hogs around these parts. It’s the only wild critter Texas landowners can hunt without a license, and the Legislature legalized shooting them from helicopters and balloons. Locally there’s a bounty for killing them, $20/ear. Unfortunately, they’re so prolific you have to kill 66% to 70% of them per year to keep their population from increasing.
The boars are 50% muscle and 50% mean.
The people who say “assault rifles” aren’t good for hunting haven’t hunted feral hogs.
I agree with Mike and Shel concerning their “technique.”
“The bigger the wild animal, the bigger the bullet needed to kill it” – Unk.
Southern states have a big problem with feral hogs/boars. One man in Alabama had to use a .50 caliber handgun to take one down.
“Never underestimate your opponent” – Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/sun-tzus-the/9781904902829/McCr_ISBN9781904902829_epub_c44_r1.html
Yup, one guy was definitely downrange. I’m not sure what would have been worse, getting mauled by a po’d beast or blasted with a 45.
I’ve watched this video a bunch of times and keep seeing something I missed. A few more times and I might see something else, but for now my impression is the following:
The video starts with the three hunters walking in single file. #1 in a gray shirt, #2 carrying a handgun, and #3 in a tan shirt. #2 stumbles slightly, and #3 stumbles multiple times. The obvious conclusion is neither should be up there. When they become aware of the hog, all three point their guns in its direction. As the hog charges, #1 (the only one we didn’t see stumble) slips & falls and slides down the hill in front of the charging hog. #2 fires his handgun with one hand at arm’s length while leaning back and trying to move away. He appears to continue firing almost to the point where #1 could become a backstop. #3 at first has his gun pointed in the correct general direction, but quickly decides he would rather leave and pivots to his left, sweeping #2 quite effectively with his muzzle in the process. After sliding past the path of the boar, #1 briefly has his firearm pointed in the hog’s direction.
Five shots ring out. Four are in a consistent cadence. The other, with a slightly muffled sound, rings out just before the last of the four. Before the end of the string is heard, the hog transitions almost instantaneously from a full speed run to a stop and a tumble.
I believe the four shots in cadence were fired by #2 with a technique so classically bad that it seems unlikely he made any effective hits, even more so considering he was using the caliber that Ted Nugent disdains. The muffled out of cadence shot must have been from #1’s rifle, muffled by comparison because it was pointed away from the recorder. I think it most likely that the rifle shot was the effective one, and it was the delay in sound travel that made it seem to have occurred after the boar started to fall. Recovered bullets might tell a different story, but I think it more likely that the recorder of the video simply noticed the handgun firing multiple times, saw the boar falling, and concluded the two had to be linked.
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