Originally Posted By: WyYoteKillerThat 44 carbine is plenty of gun.
Murphy's 8th rule of combat
Everybody has a plan, til the shooting starts!
Id definetly have a backup man with a big o/u or sxs 12 gauge with hefty charge of 00/000 buck. If I was on the ground with my child, without fail 1 or 2 of us. Those few HOSS boars I took were russian/feral hog crosses, and had some monster cutting tools on them.
Just so you know, the son is not a kid anymore. He is 28yrs old and an experienced hunter. And when hunting the TN hogs (which also have a good bit of the Russian genetics in them and also have big sharp ivories), We have a designated shooter and one or two backup shooters. One carries a 12ga slug gun loaded with nine 1oz slug rounds in case a guy's gun jams, ammo fails, he misses, etc and the hog decides to charge. Usually, all you gotta do is grab a tree branch and pull your legs up higher than 3 ft and you are safe. The hog will run right under you and continue. They will seek any opening to get away, but when bayed by the dogs, they are dangerous, make no mistake. But we should not make them out to be something they are not. Dangerous yes, but just not like a grizzly or cape buffalo, where they will attack you or even hunt you. Any animal will attack when cornered, but as long as you give the pig a way out, he will take it.
I have found that any cartridge that will take down a deer or elk will drop a wild hog in its tracks if the shooter does his part. It does take a little bit of extra concentration to place the shot well when the pig is in your face. But that is part of the fun of a pig hunt. My point is that it is not necessary to have somebody backing you up with a 600 nitro-express dbl rifle, lol.
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