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Goatwhiskers · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:28 pm Post subject: Stupid people

You hear the most interesting stories down at the local farmer's coffee spot. The latest was a guy bragging on the .17HMR as a hog rifle. Claimed a 200yd shot on a 200 plus pound hog, shoulder shot, dropped it in it's tracks. I just told him he needs a bigger gun. This is the same fella that was bragging on his one shot kill of a buck with his 7Mag at 750yds. Not saying impossible, just have to consider the source. His last remark as he left was "maybe I should go back and step that off." Ya think? I love hunting stories. Goatwhiskers the Elder
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Ed Whipple · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:45 pm Post subject:

ahhh rifle range talk...

any rifle behind the right person can harvest an animal...

but this just don't sound like that type of person... Laughing

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Burt · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:47 pm Post subject:

Stupid, or maybe some guys exaggerate a little ? ( Ok, they BS a lot ) Very Happy

That guy's shot is nuthin though. I took out a 650 pound hog with a single shot from
a Daisy Red Ryder, at 934 yards at night, in heavy fog, and he was on the
back side of the hill from me. Yep, did it using indirect fire techniques.
Oh, and I forgot to mention there were wind gusts from 3 different directions, as high
as 55 mph when I did it. I did have a NV scope though, that helped some.
Given the low velocity of the killer BB, the earth's rotation had to be taken into
account also....
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Mike H · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:52 pm Post subject: post subject

Sounds a lot like "fish stories".

Burt · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:55 pm Post subject:

Mark Muhr · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:59 pm Post subject:

I knew a guy who claimed an Elk at 918 yds. I believed him though, he was a Secret Service counter sniper.
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Pelon · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:03 pm Post subject:

I shot a pig at 80 yards with 2 spit balls . one in each nostral . It couldn't breath and DRT in a matter of minutes. Very Happy

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hogcaller · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:11 pm Post subject:

I stared a bear to death at POINT BLANK RANGE! Wink

Just call me Davy! Very Happy

possom813 · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:34 pm Post subject:

Burt · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:36 pm Post subject:

Rumors and propaganda possum. Very Happy

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Ban guns to eliminate crime ?
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Burt · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject:

Mark Muhr · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject:

Ed Whipple · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

Gary Rapp · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:34 pm Post subject:

I need to find another hog hunting forum to hang out in. You guys are in a class I will never be able to hold my own in. Most of the kills I make are no more than 100yds with my 308, which is how I like it. I did jump out of a tree stand and on 2 100lbers. One in each arm, choked em out. I knew from my stand I couldn't get the pass thru to get em both. Nice shooting guys.
Gary

Burt · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:55 pm Post subject:

You need the B.S. and P.H.D. Degrees
( Piled higher and deeper )
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Gary Rapp · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:25 pm Post subject:

Don't know if I'll get the degree, but you boys sure are educating me. Today, I learned where not to step. So, whats tomorrows class professor?

Burt · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject:

The next class is known as "The first liar doesn't have a chance". Laughing

Basically, this means you should hold off on telling a big one until a few others
have gone first. This will allow you the chance to come up with the aforementioned
P.H.D. results easier.
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Gary Rapp · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:34 am Post subject:

Burt, I knew I was waisting time in college. But to get a similar sense of education, how are you going to get all those pretty girls in here?

Mark Muhr · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:52 am Post subject:

Burt · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:11 am Post subject:

FrankT · Texasboars Legends Club Joined: 05 Jun 2011 Posts: 1754

In my stand with the .44 saw 3 hogs come out, threw my xwife out the window of the shooting house, scared them so bad all 3 hogs dropped dead in their tracks...tada

Dave Morris · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:13 pm Post subject:

As Master Po used to always tell Grasshopper:

"Video or it didn't happen"

TORO · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:25 pm Post subject:

I just thought about hunting pigs and killed a whole sounder Exclamation

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Pelon · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:23 pm Post subject:

TxPhantom · Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:13 pm Post subject:

Sorry for stepping into this so late but I was just browsing old threads and came across this one.
A while back three of us went down around Ozona Tx to do some javelina hunting. One of the guys brought along a 17 hmr rifle. I thought he was nuts but the guy is military and a very good shot. Anyway, he wound up shooting a fair sized javalina, head shot,.... it dropped like a rock. So I guess we are back at the old shot placement as opposed to heavy load arguement. I won't be carrying a little bitty thing like that but I guess shot placement won this time. Rolling Eyes

Burt · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:34 am Post subject:

We've seen videos of hogs killed at close range with air rifles also.
Some larger caliber, some small. Doesn't mean it's a good idea though.
Head shots work when the hogs stand still long enough, and all of that.
Usually anyway....I have a video of a large hog hit in the head with a .30-30 and the Hornady
flex tip factory load. Hog didn't even go down, ran off, and was not recovered.
Point is, there are stories both pro and con to the small caliber head shot approach.
We do not promote that method on this forum.
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Ban guns to eliminate crime ?
Let's ban cars, to eliminate drunk driving.
Makes as much sense.

Gary Rapp · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:45 am Post subject:

Just because a guy is military doesn't make him any more educated. Especially on the 17HMR. While our military has a lot of bright folks, it has a lot of dummies too.

HUEY · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:10 am Post subject:

TxPhantom · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:11 am Post subject:

Gary Rapp · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject:

Sounds like your friend may know his stuff.