by headspace » 25 Aug 2015, 8:18 am
Title, most of us take some meat, even the trophy hunters, but not too many eat wild pigs. A lot of them are full of worms, but if you get a couple suckers you can pen 'em up and feed them on grain. Just don't give them names. We have about 5-6 varieties of deer, no Whitetails though. Most of the deer were introduced many years back by a group called the Acclimatisation Society. Others may be escapees from deer farms. There's plenty of feral goats around too. I got a couple a few weeks back and took the back legs off one, the other was used as pig bait.
Scott, That Buff was in open country and was shot at a range of about 50 yards. Before that myself and a couple of others hunted them in thick scrub a dog couldn't bark in. I shot one there at range measured more in feet than yards. Another heart lung shot and it dropped like a stone. 308 again but loaded with a Hornady Interlock 165gn. I'm selling the 308 actually it has to make way for a 9.3x62 I've bought.
JD
If it's not wood and blued steel, it's not one of mine