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Originally Posted by JLibourel 
That crossed my mind as well. It certainly would have been a much more efficient tool for the job. I have seem wild hogs soak up shots from .41, .44 and even .454 Casull Magnums, and that left me permanently soured on the dubious sport of handgun hunting (for large game, anyway). T/C Contenders and such may be different story.
That crossed my mind as well. It certainly would have been a much more efficient tool for the job. I have seem wild hogs soak up shots from .41, .44 and even .454 Casull Magnums, and that left me permanently soured on the dubious sport of handgun hunting (for large game, anyway). T/C Contenders and such may be different story.
Agreed. I have seen hogs that I would have swore were zombies, as they took every bit of lead shot at them and were still charging.
My friends parents have a house in the Savannah area on one of the old plantation developments. They had one of the largest wild hogs I have ever come across. I actually saw it once when I was there-- was in the neighborhood of 350 to 400 pounds. The community eventually became concerned at the size and trouble that this hog was causing. They had their on-site naturalist attempt to trap it. It destroyed every trap they tried and he was then forced *cough cough* to hunt the hog.
In what may be one of the stupidest escapades I have ever heard, he was on the ground stalking the hog-- with only a crossbow and no sidearm. He happened to finally locate the beast and took it out with one shot of the crossbow for a perfect clean kill. An inch off and who knows what would ahve happened. One dumb and extremely lucky guy.
