Riflemando do you rifleshoot the hogs....

[larrysogla]

Rifleman,
Just wondering because of your handle if rifleshots are your means of giving the "coup de grace" when the hog is already bayed by the dogs. If not by riflefire, then how do you finish the bayed hog??? Thanks. larrysogla.

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

.357 if I remember correctly....

 

[RIFLEMAN]

HOGHUNTER714,
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.357 if I remember correctly....[/b]

Geez, remind me to team up with you during a game of Trivial Pursuit! How in the world did you remember something like that?

larrysogla,
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Just wondering because of your handle if rifleshots are your means of giving the "coup de grace" when the hog is already bayed by the dogs. If not by riflefire, then how do you finish the bayed hog???[/b]

As HOGHUNTER714 indicated, I prefer to use a .357 (Ruger Blackhawk) most of the time.

When possible, I'll throw and tie smaller hogs using duct tape. I'll then leash up my dogs, cut the tape, and let the hog go about its business.

Though I have used a Marlin Lever Action .375 to take hogs in the past , my handle refers to a nickname I got in high school due to my penchant for spinning the action of my lever action .22 Winchester. Though I was trying to emulate John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn in the movie, True Grit, everyone thought I was trying to be like Chuck Connors as The Rifleman. So...the name's been around ever since and even adorns my truck as RIFLEMN.