OK, so you wanna Hunt Big Wild Boar with an Airgun ?

[Mod90]

You are rite and I wouldn't want to go against a bore with a small cal. gun.
A friend of mine and I shot one in his back yard a few years ago with pistols mine was a 357 mag. at close range. Toughest dern thing I ever seen to put down.

It's not entirely about what you shoot it with, or how many times it gets shot. It's a matter of where you shoot it. I've taken  30+lb game animals with a .177 ag's in one shot more than a few times. Get the lead into the brain or heart/lungs and its over.
When hunting with ag's the key is precision. Always has been, most likely always will be.

[Nomadic Pirate]

You are rite and I wouldn't want to go against a bore with a small cal. gun.
A friend of mine and I shot one in his back yard a few years ago with pistols mine was a 357 mag. at close range. Toughest dern thing I ever seen to put down.

It's not entirely about what you shoot it with, or how many times it gets shot. It's a matter of where you shoot it. I've taken  30+lb game animals with a .177 ag's in one shot more than a few times. Get the lead into the brain or heart/lungs and its over.
When hunting with ag's the key is precision. Always has been, most likely always will be.

100 % Correct.

and that is why I started the post the way I did, so many story's I hear like that, ....man I would never hunt wild boar with anything less than so & so centerfire, but the reality is that if you learn How/Where to shoot them, and be disciplined, the mighty Big Wild Boar will fall to your powerfull (off course you need to use one of the most powerfull ones out there ) small bore airgun, everytime

[Bryan Heimann]

It's funny.  Last night at work, I was talking to a couple of my buddies about rifles, and they agreed that you would need at least a 300 win mag to take down an elk.  They also agreed that the .270 was not a good long range cartridge, despite the fact that it shoots flatter than a 300 win mag, because it doesn't have enough energy, and also that a grizzly couldn't possibly be taken down by anything weaker than a .30-06.  I'm pretty sure that more grizzlies have been killed with a 30-30 than any other cartridge out there.  Including the largest grizzly ever taken, if I recall.  It wouldn't be my first choice as a defense weapon in Alaska, but I am just saying.  Both of the guys are experienced hunters, and claim to have taken a lot of deer- what could I possibly say to them?  The best part is that they think a red ryder should be sufficient for rabbit or squirrel hunting.  Another of my buddies told me he took a deer at 275 yards with a 30-30 and iron sights.  I just kept my mouth shut- except for the part about the red ryder I told them I think it would not penetrate the skull of anything except maybe a small bird- if you could even hit it.  I haven't killed anything bigger than a snapping turtle so what could I possibly say to these guys?  Another good story is the one my stepson told me, about the 200 lb feral hog his dad and grandpa killed with a shotgun shooting slugs, and a 30-06.  He told me they shot it over and over again and it kept running around and getting knocked over.  They shot it so many times that by the time they killed it, they were afraid to dress it and eat it for all the damaged meat and slugs in the animal, so they just left it.  I wonder how many times that poor animal was gut shot at close range.  There is so much misinformation out there, usually spread by word of mouth.  I wonder how many "hog hunters" out there even realize where to place a shot on a hog for a clean kill- or if they've even tried to look it up?

[Mod90]

Bryan, keep in mind that empty barrels do make a lot of noise. I'm sure we've all as hunters met guys like you're describing. I've met fellas that claim to be avid and experienced hunters. When I invite them on my outings some of them decline. Most of those that do accept usually want to go home before the second night out. Then there are those with the long jaws when they see what a air driven pellet can do for someone that knows how to use it. Now I'm not saying that people should go out hunting moose with a cO2  bb gun. Its just that we all need to know the limits of the most and least that our chosen guns can do & respect those boundaries.

There is such a thing as over kill in hunting, & IMHO that is a form of abuse/cruelty. Shooting an animal more than 2-3 times to put it down is going to cause that critter more pain than it deserves. Taking game animals like deer, elk and hogs at 250+ yards is not hunting in my book. That's just testing one's luck as far as I see it. A skilled hunter is the one that can sneak up on an animal,  be it possum, coon ,hog or elk , and get within 30-50 yards for a shot without spooking the critter. That takes not just skilled marksmanship, but stealth, patience, restraint, discipline and most of all respect for the game (both the animal & the sport).

[mtbdrew]

Great stuff!

[Sfttailrdr46]

  For my sons 18th b-day I took him wild boar hunting in North Carolina He was using the Remington 30-06 that I bought him for his 17th. His shot was a frontal that entered between the neck and right shoulder and exiting behind the last rib on the left side. The pig dropped like a stone one shot one dead boar. The heart and lungs were mush no running and no suffering a , the shot was taken at about 35 yards.

[cwlongshot]

For my sons 18th b-day I took him wild boar hunting in North Carolina He was using the Remington 30-06 that I bought him for his 17th. His shot was a frontal that entered between the neck and right shoulder and exiting behind the last rib on the left side. The pig dropped like a stone one shot one dead boar. The heart and lungs were mush no running and no suffering a , the shot was taken at about 35 yards.

That will do it 10 times outta nine. 

GOOD JOB!

CW

[cwlongshot]

It's funny.  Last night at work, I was talking to a couple of my buddies about rifles, and they agreed that you would need at least a 300 win mag to take down an elk.  They also agreed that the .270 was not a good long range cartridge, despite the fact that it shoots flatter than a 300 win mag, because it doesn't have enough energy, and also that a grizzly couldn't possibly be taken down by anything weaker than a .30-06.  I'm pretty sure that more grizzlies have been killed with a 30-30 than any other cartridge out there.  Including the largest grizzly ever taken, if I recall.  It wouldn't be my first choice as a defense weapon in Alaska, but I am just saying.  Both of the guys are experienced hunters, and claim to have taken a lot of deer- what could I possibly say to them?  The best part is that they think a red ryder should be sufficient for rabbit or squirrel hunting.  Another of my buddies told me he took a deer at 275 yards with a 30-30 and iron sights.  I just kept my mouth shut- except for the part about the red ryder I told them I think it would not penetrate the skull of anything except maybe a small bird- if you could even hit it.  I haven't killed anything bigger than a snapping turtle so what could I possibly say to these guys?  Another good story is the one my stepson told me, about the 200 lb feral hog his dad and grandpa killed with a shotgun shooting slugs, and a 30-06.  He told me they shot it over and over again and it kept running around and getting knocked over.  They shot it so many times that by the time they killed it, they were afraid to dress it and eat it for all the damaged meat and slugs in the animal, so they just left it.  I wonder how many times that poor animal was gut shot at close range.  There is so much misinformation out there, usually spread by word of mouth.  I wonder how many "hog hunters" out there even realize where to place a shot on a hog for a clean kill- or if they've even tried to look it up?

Bryan,
 I surely hate to read such stories even tho I do know that they happen... I HOPE and pray people have more respect for the animals than that.

Something I like to use as a guide is FPE, just like we like here when really rating AG power.

Deer sized game is 1000/1500 FPE
Elk and Moose sized game 2000/2500 FPE
Dangerous game (USA) 3000+FPE

These are IMPACT NUMBERS and they are a GUIDE, NOT stead fast rule. So the lowly 30-30 is a elk buster if you get him close enough. YES IT IS PLENTY and YES it is humane. IF shots are properly placed on calm animals. The 270 has accounted for unbelievable numbers of Elk. Know why? Most people shoot a 270 FAR better then a 300 Magnum. A good, vitals shot with a 270 with a good bullet, will kill faster and more humanely that a poor shot with a 600 Tyrannosaur. (YES it is a REAL bullet)

Many outfitters will prefer a client with hunting experience who can shoot well with a minor adaquite caliber to a city slicker/flat lander with a Manaus magnum. I know I would!

This is not even considering that some animals ''kill'' easier than others. Pigs are tough critters for example. Especially and exponentially the bigger ones. While the big Moose are killed by the tanker truck loads with the a fore mentioned 30-30.

CW

[Nomadic Pirate]

Stay tuned, I got some goodies coming, all I'm saying is .22 cal

[Sfttailrdr46]

Waiting with bated breath

[Nomadic Pirate]

Waiting with bated breath

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http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=51532.0

textbook side and frontal shots,...all in 20 minutes