Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
07-25-2006, 01:19 PM
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RE: Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
I wish i knew the full story, and he's in Africa until August 7th so he's unreachable. Hisshow is actually going to be aired on August 12th on OLN http://www.stevescott.tvis his site. Feel free to get on his discussion board and ask him anything you would like.
07-25-2006, 01:28 PM
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RE: Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
I used to be into air rifles pretty heavy. While I'm not sure about hunting hogs w/ them, there is/was a Korean gun out there a few years back that was 9 mm, and shot a 60 gr. pellet. These guns were called "pre-charged pneumatics" and you would fill them w/ a scuba tank. I don't recall the mv or k.e. for this setup, but taking large game w/ an air rifle is nothing new. Lewis and Clark had a .36 cal [same principle] on their expedition, and did take deer w/ it. In those days, they used a ball type reservore [sp] to hold the air. There was a .50 cal repeater made in the 1600's called a "Girdoni" that would penetrate armor at 100 yds plus. They both used hand pumps like bicycle tire pumps that took something like two or three thousand strokes to fully charge!
Edit: The Korean guns were being made in .177, .20, .22, .25, and the 9mm last I knew, circa 1999. They were called "Dai-wu" or something like that.
Edit: The Korean guns were being made in .177, .20, .22, .25, and the 9mm last I knew, circa 1999. They were called "Dai-wu" or something like that.
07-25-2006, 02:47 PM
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RE: Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
ORIGINAL: awshucks
I used to be into air rifles pretty heavy. While I'm not sure about hunting hogs w/ them, there is/was a Korean gun out there a few years back that was 9 mm, and shot a 60 gr. pellet. These guns were called "pre-charged pneumatics" and you would fill them w/ a scuba tank. I don't recall the mv or k.e. for this setup, but taking large game w/ an air rifle is nothing new. Lewis and Clark had a .36 cal [same principle] on their expedition, and did take deer w/ it. In those days, they used a ball type reservore [sp] to hold the air. There was a .50 cal repeater made in the 1600's called a "Girdoni" that would penetrate armor at 100 yds plus. They both used hand pumps like bicycle tire pumps that took something like two or three thousand strokes to fully charge!
Edit: The Korean guns were being made in .177, .20, .22, .25, and the 9mm last I knew, circa 1999. They were called "Dai-wu" or something like that.
I used to be into air rifles pretty heavy. While I'm not sure about hunting hogs w/ them, there is/was a Korean gun out there a few years back that was 9 mm, and shot a 60 gr. pellet. These guns were called "pre-charged pneumatics" and you would fill them w/ a scuba tank. I don't recall the mv or k.e. for this setup, but taking large game w/ an air rifle is nothing new. Lewis and Clark had a .36 cal [same principle] on their expedition, and did take deer w/ it. In those days, they used a ball type reservore [sp] to hold the air. There was a .50 cal repeater made in the 1600's called a "Girdoni" that would penetrate armor at 100 yds plus. They both used hand pumps like bicycle tire pumps that took something like two or three thousand strokes to fully charge!
Edit: The Korean guns were being made in .177, .20, .22, .25, and the 9mm last I knew, circa 1999. They were called "Dai-wu" or something like that.
07-25-2006, 02:58 PM
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RE: Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
Here is the deal. I saw this episode over the weekend and this "air gun" is no Red Ryder!
It shoots a 700-something grain slug that isa 12 bore. A single shot to the head dropped the pig like it was hit by lightning. I don't know what the velocity is, but it probably wasn't more than 300fps.
Would I hunt pigs with it! Maybe.
It shoots a 700-something grain slug that isa 12 bore. A single shot to the head dropped the pig like it was hit by lightning. I don't know what the velocity is, but it probably wasn't more than 300fps.
Would I hunt pigs with it! Maybe.
07-25-2006, 06:29 PM
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RE: Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
Reb: Two guns, two stories, lol If it was ANY .177, thats no good. Apparently, Boflex knows a little more about the whole deal, and my only point was there are air guns out there that are capable of clean kills like Bflex described. Us old Benjamin and Crossman guys need to leave them piggies be! Another thing, these air gun mfgrs use a very light, totally worthless pellet to get those advertised velocities. They have very little accuracy and even less down range performance. "Speed Wars" once again, sound familiar? Btw: I mis-spelled "Giradoni" earlier post.
07-25-2006, 06:43 PM
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RE: Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
i saw on keith warren outdoors this weekend a guy with an air gun take a hog. he had a proto type gun and put air into a chamber under the barrel and if i'm not mistaken he shot a shot gun slug in it. he took a hog about 160lbs or so, it dropped in its tracks. he claimed the gun to shoot with 1000 ft lbs of energy.
07-26-2006, 06:59 AM
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RE: Feral Hog Hunting with an Air Rifle
Bowlfex
Here is the deal. I saw this episode over the weekend and this "air gun" is no Red Ryder!
It shoots a 700-something grain slug that isa 12 bore. A single shot to the head dropped the pig like it was hit by lightning. I don't know what the velocity is, but it probably wasn't more than 300fps.
Here is the deal. I saw this episode over the weekend and this "air gun" is no Red Ryder!
It shoots a 700-something grain slug that isa 12 bore. A single shot to the head dropped the pig like it was hit by lightning. I don't know what the velocity is, but it probably wasn't more than 300fps.
Thanks