RWS 48 .20 cal Hunt

[longislandhunter]

Yeah, it kinda does look like a shotgun pattern.  Some of it's from me rolling him over at the kill site to make sure he was dead and some of it's from being tossed in the bed of my truck with the other dead g-hog.  

I did shoot one once though with a shotgun.  I was at the duck farm with my 12 gauge shooting pigeons and I stumbled across a g-hog at a feeder.  He started running back to his burrow and I let him have a load of #8 pellets at about 15 yards.  He stopped when the pellets hit him but he kept on going,,,, I had to chase him down and pump a couple more shots into him.  It wasn't pretty and I wouldn't ever shoot at one again with bird shot.  If I had known that was gonna happen I would've just let him run off.  Now a slug from a shotgun would be a different thing entirely  :)

Jeff

[gamo2hammerli]

Yep, them little #8 shot is too light to penetrate their fur and blubber.  heh heh

[only1harry]

Don't let him fool you Stanley..  he uses #2 shot on these g-hogs and then walks over and shoots them in the head with a pellet gun.  Good catch though :)  All those airguns Jeff has are for the "final shot" and mostly for show :-)

It does look like the g-hog got sprayed with bullets though, doesn't it? hehe

[GoodOlRWS45]

LMAO,ROTF!

[longislandhunter]

Why,,,, is there something wrong with using #2 shot on G-hogs  ??   :)

Jeff

[erskine]

If you have never cooked one of them, you best get a crock pot because they are not fit to eat any other way.

I've shot, cleaned and eaten a few.  Now one thing I have learned about 'hogs is that you can soak them over night in a can of orange concentrate and make them a whole heck of a lot tastier...  They still need crock potting, but they are tastier.

[erskine]

At fifteen yards the pattern from a shotgun is about ten inches across.  Maybe you underestimated the distance?

[longislandhunter]

Hi Michael,

I've been eating G-hogs for a long time, find them very tasty.  I agree with you,, they do take to a crock pot very well but I've also found the younger ones to be suitable for other forms of preparation.  

As for that one hog I shot with a shotgun,,,, it was in fact just about 15 yards.  Since then I've never shot at another one with a scattergun.  

Jeff