Ha... yeah seen that one a few times. As it turns out... I used my new toy on some tannerite. Of course I didn't do nearly as much as those boys in the video. Ralph, here's a pic of my new PIG-A-NATOR. (300 blackout upper for my AR)
Very Nice!!! Pig-A-Nator, hahaha.....I need to check that out...A Marine buddy of mine just put together a 300 Blackout shooting sub-sonic with a suppressor. I've only seen a couple videos of him shooting it but it looks very interesting. I haven't played with Tannerite yet but it looks like it could be fun, I'm thinking the guys in the video added another fuel source to enlighten the blast effect... Can't wait to hear your experience with your hog eliminator, enjoy it
Corey I was raised to never kill anything unless I had plans to eat it and had to pluck a couple tweety birds I shot as a kid because I killed them, meat is meat but I learned not to waste a life in the process. But the hog population is so over the top and virtually unmanageable I don't harbor any guilt in killing them and letting the buzzards have a feast. A biologist one told me that if we have 1,000 hogs on the property we would have to kill 750 per year just to maintain the population at 1,000... So yeah, you have an open invitation to Go Hoggin on our property...The crazy thing is our population runs around 70% male to 30% female and nothing is as nasty to eat than a adrenaline pumped boar hog, give me a sow to eat everytime.
No subsonic for me... I want the full mash. I'm going with 110 grain polymer tipped rounds at 2300 ft/sec. Should knock down just about anything from Piggly Wiggly to Hogzilla. 300 blackout appealed to me because you can use the same mags as 5.56. It even uses the same bolt-carrier group so there's nothing extra to buy. I now have two rifles in one. I'm in when you guys get a hoggin' party set up!!!
LOL, any pine tree will suffice.... Punt gun - 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. Punt guns were usually custom-designed and so varied widely, but could have bore diameters exceeding 2 inches (51 mm) and fire over a pound (≈ 0.45 kg) of shot at a time.[1] A single shot could kill over 50 waterfowl resting on the water's surface. They were too big to hold and the recoil so large that they were mounted directly on the punts used for hunting, hence their name. Hunters would maneuver their punts quietly into line and range of the flock using poles or oars to avoid startling them. Generally the gun was fixed to the punt; thus the hunter would maneuver the entire boat in order to aim the gun. The guns were sufficiently powerful, and the punts themselves sufficiently small, that firing the gun often propelled the punt backwards several inches or more.
Ralph, You forget that I am the dark, Godless soul of the board. I think it's perfectly fine to eliminate as many as you want because you are, in fact, defending life. There are times in life in which some must be taken to protect others. If you can harvest them for eating as fast as I can kill them, all the better. I'm not sure about Scott morality on the issue, but as far as I am concerned, we can use that punt gun to kill the hogs for all I care. I use a crossbow and knife, but that's mostly because I'm insane and love the risk. If we can line up some real firearms, I'm all for a mass extinction hoggin party.
I have no morality when it comes to feral hogs. They are a scourge and need to be wiped out by whatever means are at hand. Humanely if possible, but at the rates they reproduce that is becoming less and less likely. Crossbow and a knife... That's not hunting... that's just crazy! Actually that IS hunting, and i respect anyone that uses bows. A knife? I stick with the "crazy" comment on that!
To add to Scotts comments please plan on bringing a weapon of some sort other than what a Cro-Magnon would use as the hogs will simply leave you winded and gasping for air....Also getting cut by a hog is much like a gator, the bacteria it leaves is the bastard that causes problems and I know of several people who have been stuck as they caught hogs and fought infection for up-to 24 months.... I want you to enjoy yourself and appreciate the memory not wish you never visited.... I have an abundance of modern firearms that would be a great backup you crazy turdhead.....
That's what would be awesome for me, the firearms. I currently own none given the situation with my son etc. I'd be pretty darned excited at a crack at using some modern weaponry in the open. As far as being stuck, it's happened to me as that's the only time I've had to use my Arkansas toothpick. I learned early that to mercy kill, I'd rather drop another bolt in its head then bend over to risk getting stuck. I thought I told you guys this story? I got a cracked rib and a nasty infection right in the middle of my left rib cage. My friends with hunting dogs all taught me that you gotta bring em young and teach them to either fetch or flush. Anyway, Satchmo was still a pup but I brought him along. I came up on a plateau (imagine a reverse C) where I came upon a pack of hogs with a few big nasty ones. I was getting set to take my first shot when the babies came running out and my flipping dog decided it was play time (they were about his size), so I took my shot on the scatter and dropped one dead. Well, one of them exited out of the bowl and headed to the open area. The rest were disoriented but were eventually finding their way to that open part of the bowl to escape. I was reloading the bolt laying flat on the ground, lining up another hog when I realized that first big one had gone out the exit but turned left, like a U turn, and was coming up after me. All I could do was brace, it was all I had time to do and got crushed between the hog and a tree which was right next to my right side. The hog kept goring so I pulled my toothpick and stuck it right under the jaw, up into the brain. It took the rib longer to heal than the infection, but the infection was painful and nasty. This was the first of many reasons why I refer to my loyal, yet idiotic, 4 legged best friend as an 'asshole.' I got what I deserve with that dog, but he's still a good one.
Well it's not a drone pic but it was a beautiful sunrise this morning and I was lucky enough to grab a picture....
I just entered the Drone ownership club. I picked up on a Phantom 3 Pro with 4K camera. Awaiting its arrival. They now come with a flight simulator to get you used to the controls before crashing it. :wink: Already have homeowners wanting aerial shots of improvements they have made to their homes without waiting 12 months for Google Maps to update. Also have car owners wanting aerial shots of their cars.
LOL! We have neighbors we know who bought a drone and the very first day crashed it somewhere. They believed that it had come down in a pond nearby and was long gone. The other day Mary was working in the gardens and found it stuck in one of our palms. The flight simulator seems like a very good idea.
When I was flying RC planes, I would hit the simulator to bone up on my skills before going out to the club field. I doubt that I will need much. The Phantom 3 has GPS and gyro to aide in flight. The planes I flew had nothing but the controls I manipulated. :wink:
Congratulations Tom, it sounds like you have a lot of scheduled shots coming your way. I tend to use the 1080 mode over the 4K selection because it bogs down my processor on either computer I use, but you are much more tech savvy than I will ever be and probably have much more updated processors. You going to crash the drone at least once, even with the simulator, the trick is crashing in the best area and learning from what caused the crash. If I can give at least one whisper of advice make sure you calibrate the drone properly before every flight. This will guarantee that if all else fails you can hit the home button and it will come right back...