Wild Boar Hunting with Shotgun Slug or Buckshot?

[bilalarabaci]

Hello everyone,

There is a controversy about the first shot at our hunter's club. Some veteran hunters say it's buckshot.

Does this wild boar shot by Slug or Buckshot (9 pellets) at the first shot?

What's your opinions on this video?

[Cranfield]

I would guess 9 pellets of "buckshot".

Do you know the true answer ?

[flynny]

Ask the hunter or the boar, only they know?.the question is was the boar found after it was shot/shot at ? Ie, is it dead, looks like slug and the 1st shot was low?? The second made contact though??( 3rd and 4th looked high just misses??) Just my opinion. The range it was shot at the patern would have been really tight with 9 shot though ? So who knows?? As long as it ended as tucker and demised as quick as possible, that's all that matters

 

Atb

 

Flynny

Edited February 27, 2015 by flynny

[sitsinhedges]

I've no idea but I'm amazed it kept on running after 3 shots

[leftnright]

Agree that the pattern would have been tight, shot looked low and hit the bottom jaw, animal presented better for shooting in middle of track IMO

[super sharp shooter]

When I shot boar last year with slugs they went down instantly so I would guess buck shot.

[fenboy]

I would say buck shot , as said you can see the bottom jaw being hit , i think if that was a solid slug it would have done much more damage and the boar would have likely dropped .

I would also agree it would have been better to take it a little later while it was crossing the track, easy to say when you have time to think though!

Edited February 27, 2015 by fenboy

[Guest stevo]

I have shot boar using a semi auto and ( Brenneke Magnum Crush = 3804 Ft lbs ), boar hit the ground like a sack of **** , they hit harder than most large C/F rounds , the shooter in the clip was NOT using slugs ,

 

even 1 Oz foster slug though not really the best choice would have still don't a much much better job than that ,

 

gives me the right hump when I see **** like that

Edited February 27, 2015 by stevo

[Dougy]

Looking at the shooters shot placement it wouldn't matter if he was using a 20mm.

1 Low 1 high 1

 

watched again did the the 1st hit the jaw Still low, presented a good frontal head shot as it came out.

Edited February 28, 2015 by Dougy

[rjimmer]

There was a clip floating about some years ago where a boar carried on running with steam/vapour coming out of the exit hole like a train. Are there any signs of pellets hitting the ground in the background of this clip, if not, all pellets from 3 shots hit the boar !!!!!!!!!

[Dunkield]

Certainly wasn't a slug

[Guest stevo]

There was a clip floating about some years ago where a boar carried on running with steam/vapour coming out of the exit hole like a train. Are there any signs of pellets hitting the ground in the background of this clip, if not, all pellets from 3 shots hit the boar !!!!!!!!!

if he was using a slug , that first shot that connected with the lower jaw , it would have been ripped off , if I had to guess I would say he was using something like SG shot .but I stand by my first comment , that's NO slug

Edited February 28, 2015 by stevo

[Dougy]

Certainly a novice.

 

;-)

[Guest stevo]

Certainly a novice.

 

;-)

totally agree with you there dougy

[EMcC]

Certainly not slug !

[FOXHUNTER1]

I don't think it was a slug either...

[Codeye]

I have shot boar using a semi auto and ( Brenneke Magnum Crush = 3804 Ft lbs ), boar hit the ground like a sack of **** , they hit harder than most large C/F rounds , the shooter in the clip was NOT using slugs ,

 

even 1 Oz foster slug though not really the best choice would have still don't a much much better job than that ,

 

gives me the right hump when I see **** like that

im with you on this one buckshot on a pig aint sport

[Berettacocker]

LG or SSG, seen a lot of vids using slugs, and even the not so well placed shots still stopped the Boar in its tracks.

[Guest stevo]

LG or SSG, seen a lot of vids using slugs, and even the not so well placed shots still stopped the Boar in its tracks.

SSG that's the one I ment to say ,

[EMcC]

im with you on this one buckshot on a pig aint sport

In some countries it only allows the use of 'Buckshot' when shooting on Sundays.

It is not a Countrywide law, it only applies in certain areas of some countries.

Certain areas in Lithuania is one of them, as I found out when asked to leave my rifle in the Hotel and presented with a Merkel shotgun on the Sunday.

[fenboy]

In some countries it only allows the use of 'Buckshot' when shooting on Sundays.

It is not a Countrywide law, it only applies in certain areas of some countries.

Certain areas in Lithuania is one of them, as I found out when asked to leave my rifle in the Hotel and presented with a Merkel shotgun on the Sunday.

I suppose you have to respect their laws but I would not fancy a large boar charging me with just Buckshot to stop it

[Berettacocker]

SSG that's the one I ment to say ,

do you still shoot pigeon with breneke?

[Guest stevo]

do you still shoot pigeon with breneke?

only the tough ones haha

[EMcC]

I suppose you have to respect their laws but I would not fancy a large boar charging me with just Buckshot to stop it

The use of the word 'Buckshot' covers most of the large shot , BB, SSG, LG etc.

One of the 'Pellets' recovered from one of the pigs shot was as large as 9mm ball.

I can't remember what the cartridge was that I used but having seen some of the pigs shot roll over when hit, and the size of the 'Pellets' recovered, I felt pretty safe.

We are talking 12 Guage of course.

[Guest cookoff013]

In some countries it only allows the use of 'Buckshot' when shooting on Sundays.

It is not a Countrywide law, it only applies in certain areas of some countries.

Certain areas in Lithuania is one of them, as I found out when asked to leave my rifle in the Hotel and presented with a Merkel shotgun on the Sunday.

 

cool. i got one of these, more of a bird gun really. patterns "well nice"