Re: harvested hogs and deer with superb results. 204 ruger
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:48 pm
I'm curious.....
What's funny about what I wrote..?
-BCB
What's funny about what I wrote..?
-BCB
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I guess it was just the way I was reading it while reminiscing back about the wild boar hunting with bows & arrows.Bayou City Boy wrote:I'm curious.....
What's funny about what I wrote..?
-BCB
If there's something out of line about what I wrote, I'd like to know your thoughts...Jim White wrote:I guess it was just the way I was reading it while reminiscing back about the wild boar hunting with bows & arrows.Bayou City Boy wrote:I'm curious.....
What's funny about what I wrote..?
-BCB
Rick:Rick in Oregon wrote:BCB/Mr. Texas, my entire time hog hunting was in central and northern California, in very heavy cover in steep terrain, with dogs, usually in dim light or near dark, and between running after baying hounds, trying not to fall in the muck, rain, slippery slopes, carrying a rifle would be a fool's errand, as only heavy caliber handguns in sturdy belt or shoulder rigs seemed to work, as both hands were always needed to negotiate the terrain.....and hounds. By the time we reached our hogs, the mud, blood, and hair was flying, a rifle would have been of little use.
I realize your hog hunting is in Texas and you just had to make an appearence here again and offer your opinion. There are other places with hogs much different than Texas. On occasion I've even been known to use my Marlin 1894 .44 Mag, but we truly disdained hunting hogs with rifles, feeling handguns were much more sporting for our purposes. (emphisis added, as we don't care about yours).
No, I don't use the 204 for hogs either, never will.
BZ BT
No sir, nothin' tat' all was said out of line. In fact I agree with what you wrote. Personally, I wouldn't hunt a hog with a 204 any more than I would hunt one with a sling-shot.Bayou City Boy wrote:If there's something out of line about what I wrote, I'd like to know your thoughts...Jim White wrote:I guess it was just the way I was reading it while reminiscing back about the wild boar hunting with bows & arrows.Bayou City Boy wrote:I'm curious.....
What's funny about what I wrote..?
-BCB
-BCB
And I wasn't trying to incite the natives with what I wrote, either...Jim White wrote:No sir, nothin' tat' all was said out of line. In fact I agree with what you wrote. Personally, I wouldn't hunt a hog with a 204 any more than I would hunt one with a sling-shot.
Jim
I'm speaking for myself;chicoredneck wrote:strange how the math that helps support my point of view and the articles i have referanced along with my own and others proven success with small bore calibers on medium game has been convienently ignored. all you guys can say is esentialy you think it's no good because someone told you it is or you were brought up to think that way. nobody has any evidence to disprove what i have put forward. small caliber firearms, particularly 204 and 223 calibers have been 100% effective in MY hands. maybe they don't work for YOU. They have worked for ME every time. A 300 grain bullet from say a 375 H&H is only 0.0024% the body weight of a 1500lb cape buffalo. How could such a small bullet with a relatively small energy when compared to body size of the cape buffalo be a commonly used and effective round? bullet construction of course is made to penetrate deeply for this particular caliber. so is the 45gr in a 204 for medium penetration.
My weapon of choice was the Peter and the Wolf cork gun for hogs around here until there was a scare of pseudo-rabies just down the road. Rather than risk pissing one with a less than perfect shot I started to carry my trusty Red Ryder and now feel much more secure.Rick in Oregon wrote:BCB:
Gotta go....need to grab my Beeman R10; there's a T-Rex in the garden again.....