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Originally Posted by Whiterabbit
I would add smaller pigs. better chances with a smaller pig.
No offense to the people you were witnessing, but that seems like a pretty wussy thing to do. No one had the balls to rush in and finish the job, when farmers do it all the time with a 22LR? My pig was at <20 yards, and I'm no hero. Were these young guys or something?
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It was a shooting match on a working ranch and owner had told everyone that pigs were to be shot on sight, no questions asked. The boar was in a clearing down a steep hill and would probably have run off if anyone had tried approach. My big regret was that no one had a heavy caliber out and ready to start with. I did not participate, just witnessed and winced :-(
My feeling is that anything you hunt requires YOU to provide a clean and efficient and honorable end (in other words, respect the life you take by not inflicting undue suffering AND eat what you harvest).
I once made a poor shot on a buck in NoCal way back when, it was offhand at 75-80 yards and buck was walking broadside. Outfitter I was with insisted that I move in quick and finish it with a knife rather than a close heavy caliber shot that would damage a lot of meat. I learned a bloody lesson that day, make it clean or don't take the shot. Outfitter said I needed to learn that the hard way and to NEVER do that again, he was right!