Boar/Pig/Hog hunting calibers

I would love a high quality thermal, all I have right now is a thermal monocular. I just don't know what gun I'd put a thermal scope on. Maybe on the Marlin and give purists a heart attack.
My old man has 1 on his Marlin 357 they work perfect together..

Also I got to handle a new Ruger built Marlin ( the old boy purchased it) nice guns but pricey. I'm thinking he should give it to me for my 40th birthday.<45>

And he also purchased a southern cross taipan .223 pump Action with a 30 rnd Mag, fun times.
 
My old man has 1 on his Marlin 357 they work perfect together..

Also I got to handle a new Ruger built Marlin ( the old boy purchased it) nice guns but pricey. I'm thinking he should give it to me for my 40th birthday.<45>

And he also purchased a southern cross taipan .223 pump Action with a 30 rnd Mag, fun times.
Just watched a review on the Taipan I wasn't impressed with what they said about it lol. Certain ammo locks it up hardddd.
 
Just watched a review on the Taipan I wasn't impressed with what they said about it lol. Certain ammo locks it up hardddd.
Thats not ideal, you wouldn't have a link to the review.

The crazy thing they won't license Remington 7615 pumpy because they take AR magazines yet they'll license the Taipan that takes a 30 shot magazine and the Remington 7600.
 
Thats not ideal, you wouldn't have a link to the review.

The crazy thing they won't license Remington 7615 pumpy because they take AR magazines yet they'll license the Taipan that takes a 30 shot magazine and the Remington 7600.
I will say that these guys also often bitch about things that seem to be their fault though. Like in their Citadel Levtac-92 review they spent a good deal of time crying about loading it, but I have one and have no issues popping 8 rounds in quite easily and quickly.Aside from that I find him to be a pretty straight shooter in his reviews.
 
I would love a high quality thermal, all I have right now is a thermal monocular. I just don't know what gun I'd put a thermal scope on. Maybe on the Marlin and give purists a heart attack.
just to upset the purists
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Went out last night shot a decent sow that was around 70kg and a cub fox but unfortunately a power pole on the neighbouring property went up in flames and put a end to the night real quickly.
 
@Big Tuppy Hole no pigs on the weekend, but we came across 6 or 7 foxes that didn't run away, they must have been just getting ready to leave their mum, But 3 of us shooting for a about 8 seconds at 11pm, got 6 of them. Poor little buggers, super cute but obviously the are devastating to the native wildlife.
 
@Big Tuppy Hole no pigs on the weekend, but we came across 6 or 7 foxes that didn't run away, they must have been just getting ready to leave their mum, But 3 of us shooting for a about 8 seconds at 11pm, got 6 of them. Poor little buggers, super cute but obviously the are devastating to the native wildlife.
Good shooting and congratulations on the kid hope all is going well.

I shot a fox from off our patio the other week but couldn't find as it ran, lucky my knew pup found it and dragged it up to our house and ate it.
 
Good shooting and congratulations on the kid hope all is going well.

I shot a fox from off our patio the other week but couldn't find as it ran, lucky my knew pup found it and dragged it up to our house and ate it.
Thanks mate.
We don't see too many foxes around, we've taken steps to control their population and wipe them out over the last 20 years, but they are thriving on the lands we can't hunt (State Forests in QLD can't be hunted on), so to catch a full litter like this has probably done a bit for the local wildlife. My shooting wasn't spectacular, I got one and executed another, my buddies with the 12g's got most of the hits. The .44 magnum is not well suited to shooting at night at eye glints and small targets like foxes but it got the job done.
 
This pigs control stuff regulations in some countries heavily depends also from local municipalities.
We have one municipality with relatively large city and they are strange.
They doesn't allow to control animals.... always huge tensions with MoEf etc...
4 A.M ... pigs walked on main road in city....
0 permit to deal with them and large pigs walking around.
Thanks to God one municipality near this shithole city is old school thinking ppl : in this area pigs are deNazified quickly....
Wild pigs are smart and super fertile + might create huge problems for agriculture businesses...
Their fertility level is higher than pigs in specialised sow farms does have and they are super tough stuff....
 
This pigs control stuff regulations in some countries heavily depends also from local municipalities.
We have one municipality with relatively large city and they are strange.
They doesn't allow to control animals.... always huge tensions with MoEf etc...
4 A.M ... pigs walked on main road in city....
0 permit to deal with them and large pigs walking around.
Thanks to God one municipality near this shithole city is old school thinking ppl : in this area pigs are deNazified quickly....
Wild pigs are smart and super fertile + might create huge problems for agriculture businesses...
Their fertility level is higher than pigs in specialised sow farms does have and they are super tough stuff....
Here if they're on private land that's legal to shoot on you can shoot em all year round without a permit. Same for any pest/introduced animal here.
 
Well, on private land here are hunting seasons etc and a lot of other stuff.
Or you might claim self defense case.;)
Btw it is in reality de facto " might happen " cos these pigs might be really large size.

In short: bireucracy level is going closer to modern Luxembourg or Germany while number of pigs is higher than 100 years ago.
PM agreed to remove limits etc, parliament looks that will support this....
while municipalities......some are super green.
Politicians hoped that some new disease affecting pigs will reduce their number, in reality their prognosis had failed and even worse: pigs appeared to become even more tough and more fertile.

Central government looks that is willing to support increased hunting limit etc....
Municipalities it depends....

We sadly recently had some very bad cases in hunting ......
This is also one from reasons why lawmakers are suspicously looking on hunters and for a reason.
If they create workload for morgues etc and legal institutions.:(.
Recently cases were when one hunter had killed his brother and told prosecutor that he assumed that he is pig....
Delivery in coffin was with 1 shot from some 250 meters distance.
+ one case when some Sr rank officer like colonel or general actively enlisted in rank officer had died. 1 bullet = coffin.
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We have scrupulous procedure with mandatory background check up and health condition and shooting and basic legal skills examination in person and still ....
Like this...:(
 
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@Big Tuppy Hole the issues with the SCAA Taipan have been sorted. Apparently it was only 5 - 10 of them that had the issue with the ammunition jamming it up.
 
My old boys still waiting on his.

View attachment 978713 a pig from the other night, shot 9 or so out of 3 mobs of around 60
I'm not entirely sure I can post the pig we got the other night. 85kg Sow, had a shitload of piglets, but the .44 magnum with PPU ammo did devastating damage to her. The piglets didn't have a great time either, but while your photo it looks like the pigs just sleeping, the photo I have the pig looks like it's been involved in a driveby shooting.

Three mobs of around 60 goddamn I wish we had big mobs like that here. at the same time I'm happy we don't.
 
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I'm not entirely sure I can post the pig we got the other night. 85kg Sow, had a shitload of piglets, but the .44 magnum with PPU ammo did devastating damage to her. The piglets didn't have a great time either, but while your photo it looks like the pigs just sleeping, the photo I have the pig looks like it's been involved in a driveby shooting.

Three mobs of around 60 goddamn I wish we had big mobs like that here. at the same time I'm happy we don't.
3 more from the other.
Picsart_23-04-13_12-12-43-565.jpg Picsart_23-04-13_12-11-14-144.jpg Picsart_23-04-13_12-09-27-528.jpg as we where leaving we seen another mob of 15 or so but left them.

All shot with a .223 so there's no real damage.
 
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