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Hunting has been slow.

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Luis Leon:
At least you are seeing the sows. That’s pretty cool right there. Just a matter of time before your boar shows up. Good luck! Do you hunt smaller game than the pigs?

Nomadic Pirate:

--- Quote from: Luis Leon on January 08, 2021, 08:15:41 AM ---At least you are seeing the sows. That’s pretty cool right there. Just a matter of time before your boar shows up. Good luck! Do you hunt smaller game than the pigs?

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Not really,....Mongoose is the only small critter I hunt.

Nomadic Pirate:
Last nite the grey boar came in again, this time solo no sows in tow
if next time he comes back on his own again I'll take him down.

Rattus58:

--- Quote from: Nomadic Pirate on November 27, 2020, 11:23:17 PM ---Well, more like my time has been taken by other things,

Summertime was very hot and pigs disappeared to higher elevations,
October came and winds went completely slack and at the same time suf started to pump,
November was the same for the first 2 weeks,
Trades have now come back lately improving hunting conditions mightily,
I was at my blind Wednesday and 2 very, very nice sows came to the feeder
Very nice dark grey full coats
I was carrying my MAX ML .25 and I could easily have taken one and posted a kill here but I decided to wait,
if you are patient enough those sows will be in heat at some point and very likely will drag a Big boar one day with them to the feeder.

To be continued....... ;D ;D

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hey Manny... any of the hunting that I've done so far with an airgun, has been with a sam yang recluse with larger valves that runs a little over 200 fpe. I've also a hatsan BT65 that is stock in .30 caliber. I haven't chronographed it in a while, so I don't remember what the horsepower is, but it's under 100 fpe... maybe way under, but on my targets, when it hits, it just about, well actually has, and that might have been I cut the string too, nocked my hanging targets off the string... lucky more like it, but I've considered it for hunting and others tell me no problems... yet some are also saying no way, unethical, etc etc etc... but I'm of two thoughts here. One, even if say 75 pounds fpe or slightly less, a 30 caliber puts out a lot of energy.  I know we're trying to get airguns legal here for hunting and airguns of arizona suggested, according to DLNR, 400 fpe, but when I talked to Kip Perow, who sat with DLNR on this, if I remember, he told me he'd recommend 200 fpe as being an adequate minimum. We're still working on this and we want to go back this year to set this up for the next year legislature on airgun power for public hunting. What would you suggest as an adequate minimum?

Nomadic Pirate:
That is such a tricky question to answer,

the problem with the establishing of a minimum power is that only really relates to the Heart/Lung shot,
for the Brain shot you don't need anywhere near the same power, or caliber for that matter.

So if we are strictly talking of hunting with body shots I would say a good ballpark would be 300 FPE and .357 caliber minimum even if I know for a fact that much less is still very effective.

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