Not Hogzilla, but--

[rdnck]

maybe I have a convert in the making. I'm going tomorrow afternoon to help my neighbor with a pig problem on his deer lease. Pigs have literally torn up his rye grass patch and nearly wrecked his feeder. Turned it over, and bent it up in fact. He had a bunch of about fifteen come in yesterday afternoon and got a pretty good one of about 175 pounds with his bow.

He has dropped by a number of times and has seen the Sharps work out, and is intrigued at the prospect of nailing a pig with one. I'm going to carry the 45-110 Business rifle and loan him a 45-70. It should be an interesting afternoon and evening. One way or another, I'll keep you posted. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[hatchet]

I went pig hunting last Saturday. Was invited to a 8000 acres lease in west cental Florida. Similar story, the pigs are distroying all the cattle & deer land. Anyway, I took the Sharps. I guess I was at the wrong place on the lease though. I came up empty handed, but my friend took three with his 30-30.

[hatchet]

Rdnck, Oh yeah. Good hunting.

[Timberlake]

Rdnck,

Take some of hose pp bullets I sent you. I know they work well on deer but I'm curious to see how they perform on swine.

TL

[rdnck]

Timberlake--The 45-70 is loaded with them. Jacob is a good shot, and he may well nail one with the 45-70. Either way, if we get a pig, it will be with paper patched ammo. That is all we are carrying. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[The Montanan]

The Quigley Sharps 45-70 on pigs

Not my hunt, but another guy I know down in Texas.

[rdnck]

We went and sat from 4:30 pm until it was too dark to see--after 7:30. No hogs. We will give them a few days and try again, more than likely this weekend. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[Chief Beck]

rdnck,

How does that .45-110 Business rifle shoot with that 28" barrel?

Chief Beck

[bulldog]

Thanks, Rdnck, for the report. Some of us been waiting anxiously. Course I don't know much about hogs but I would suspect that one spotting you sitting there with that 45-110 would decide to take a wide path. I have heard you can entice them closer with a pan of Shiner Bock Beer, however.

[rdnck]

Chief--My Business Rifle is very accurate. However, it is a little different than most. For openers, it has a shotgun buttplate. This is a must with any 45-110 if you expect to shoot it. My rifle also has a 30 inch barrel which helps me see the front sight a little better than the 28 inch barrel would, considering my eyesight. The rifle also carries a 13 7/8 length of pull, which fits me perfectly.

According to Sellers' book, the original Sharps factory made a few Business Rifles with the shotgun buttplate and the 30 inch barrel. I ordered my rifle to have the same specifications and finish as an original. This means that it has standard wood, bone pack case hardening and a polished blued barrel.

This rifle has been very accurate with every paper patched load I have tried in it. Bullets of 506, 511, 535, and 565 grains with a full case of either 1f Express or 2f Express shoot the same out to 385 yards with the full buckhorn barrel sight and a copper penny front blade. I load and shoot both the Buffalo Arms/Starline and Norma cases. It is easy to stay under 3 inches on a pig silhouette at 100 yards sitting off cross sticks with this set up. When I am seeing really well, it stays around 2 inches or a little better with barrel sights.

In the past, I have owned two other Business Rifles in 45-70. They were Wolfgang era guns and had the military buttplate and 28 inch barrels. One had the throated barrel. Neither would shoot with this rifle, and recoil was something that would wear on you after a while. They DID carry very well with the 28 inch barrel, but I sold both of them. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[RMulhern]

Rdnck

Get ya about five 5 gal. buckets of ROTTEN SOYBEANS and pour 'em all in a pile and then a good spotlight to use after it's dark-thirty! Pigs can smell 'em rotten beans fer miles and what chocolate is to some folks....rotten beans are to pigs! Don't let ya barrel get too hot!!

Oh....every now and then.....grunt and go "oink, oink!"

[Timberlake]

'Ol Rick is right on about chummin' those hogs in. Spoiled beans will do as will week old, sun warmed milk and corn. You gotta have something aromatic and they WILL come. Good luck!

TL

[rdnck]

Not to worry about pulling hogs in. I have a super secret hog attractor that I learned from the best man I ever saw in the woods. In the late '70's I lived in the Florida panhandle for a while and made the acquaintance of a really unique individual. He showed me a concoction that will absolutely pull hogs for at least two miles and cause them to root a place as big as a tennis court and two feet deep.

We didn't use this, as we were on Jacob's deer lease, and to do so would ruin it for deer hunting. We are just being opportunistic hog hunters at the moment. Something will show up. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[ironramrod]

Rdnck,

Don't have a clue how predator calls would work on hogs, but they certainly work well on the predator species around here. You might try a wounded piglet or hog sound either in a hand held call or one of the newer digital electronic calls. The digital electronics have lots of different sounds on them. Most wild mammals will respond to sounds of one form or another. If they did respond, the entire group may show up at least on the first go around.

With the two of you in tree stands about 50 yards or so apart you might be able to cut down 3 or 4 of them before the survivors made it back to home and mother. That probably wouldn't be a clean sweep, but certainly enough to convince the hogs that the rye field has suddenly become a really tough neighborhood.

Regards
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Whaddya mean I'm not dressed up; these Carhartt overalls are almost brand new!

[buffalocannon]

Or you could just stake out Slick Willie in your deer lease. He seems to have a real knack for bringin' in the hogs.