Eat Your Heart Out Coonskinner!!!

[ManOfWord]

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

My biggest issue with this story is believing any 11 year old could shoot a .50 caliber revolver accurately, especially as many times as he was supposed to have shot it.

I have spent my fair share of time shooting big bore handguns. It has at times been a hobby I have spent more time on than might have been strictly healthy.

And handguns of that caliber have a LOT of recoil and muzzle blast, far more than any 11 year old I have ever known of could handle effectively, especially and hit anything.

I know what you mean. My son, when he was on leave in December, got a Colt .45. We shot it a lot and it packs quite a whallop! This gun is similar to a Desert Eagle, which is also .50.

On the other hand, all the kid would have had to do was hit the pig once with a pistol like that and he was going down. From there, it wouldn't have been too hard to finish him off.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Sherri

My son showed me this last night, and I was amazed. I didn't even know there were wild boar in Alabama, but he told me we had them in Tennessee too. I'm glad I've never run into one of these!!

Until a couple of years ago my wifes family had an annual family reunion in rural North Central Louisiana and the main course was always wild boar that the folks hosting the reunion hunted and killed.

They were very picky about what meat they kept and used. It was always very, very good. Some of those wild boars could kill a man with their horns (tusks?)and sometimes do kill or hurt the dogs hunting them.

[tamor]

Originally Posted by CC1

Until a couple of years ago my wifes family had an annual family reunion in rural North Central Louisiana and the main course was always wild boar that the folks hosting the reunion hunted and killed.

They were very picky about what meat they kept and used. It was always very, very good. Some of those wild boars could kill a man with their horns (tusks?)and sometimes do kill or hurt the dogs hunting them.

Did it have a wild taste to it? That was always my thought.

[ManOfWord]

I went to Bible School with a guy who married Alan Oggs' daughter and he used to hunt wild boars in Florida. He had some tall tales to tell 'bout hog huntin'!