Remington 870 question

[Flyman39]

Read Oreo very carefully. Listen to him.

 

[Meesh]

Lots of interesting reading. My 870 is a smoothbore with a modified choke, and I will go to the store where I bought it for some slugs & an additional choke. I'd like to learn to use it with slugs, anyway. One of the reasons I paid a little more at the gunstore was for the customer service, might as well use it.

Because the danger level has been mentioned time and again, I am going to put a good scope on the .30-06 for the pigs. I have been shooting since I was a kid, and am an accurate shot. With a good scope and a tripod on the .30-06, I'm 100% sure I can do the job humanely from the safest possible distance.

Generally the pigs are down in our canyon pasture, and there are several good vantage points safely up the hillside. There aren't any houses to worry about, but there is such a good safety factor in shooting down into the canyon, that it makes good sense in that respect as well.

Cheers,
Michelle

 

[chrissum]

from cabelas:
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/t...s&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=slugs&noImage=0

 

[gila_dog]

Sounds like you've got it figured out now. Picking them off with the '06 down into the canyon would be a good way to deal with the oinkers. They are smart critters tho, and they will learn quickly to avoid you and your rifle. After a couple of ambushes the survivors may go nocturnal, operating at night, to avoid people. Their senses of hearing and smell are very good, but they can't see very well, day or night.

You may want to figure out a way to trap them too. I've heard of people in TX, where there are lots of feral pigs, making a trap consisting of a pen with food and water in it. It has a gate that can be left open until the pigs start using then pen, and then set so it can be pushed into the pen, but not out. The farmer checks the pen daily and when he has a load of pigs in the trap, he just goes out there with his livestock trailer, loads them up, and takes them to the auction. Or he takes his .22 rifle out and pops one. Either way, they become sausage.

 

[gypsygirl1421]

You can also contact the USDA Wildife Services program. (who I work for) We do a lot of feral pig trapping and often have programs that are funded so you wouldn't have to pay for it. I am not familiar with what CO is doing, but could find out for you. Feral pigs are often tested for a myriad of diseases to make sure they aren't carrying psuedo rabies or swine bruccelosis.

 

[esmith]

There are hunters out there itching for a chance to shoot wild pigs. Advertise locally or on craigslist or something and people will come and take care of them for you

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From my experience if you kill a wild pig somewhere the rest of the pigs WILL NOT return to that spot.

For choice of firearms I wouldn't use an 870. Borrow something if you can. Personally I would use my Remington 700 in 30.06

I don't like things to run after I shoot them

 

[esmith]

Also for bait you can use mashed corn with a little strawberry jello powder mixed in and let it ferment for a few days.

Pigs have better vision then they are given credit for.

Kill them all or you will have an even bigger problem in the next few years as the pigs reproduce and get wiser to living in the wild.

 

[nautical_bouy]

esmith ,,, have you ever used a premium sabot slug?? I don't think so. The 20Ga, starts as big a hole as the 06 should make, after perfect expansion,, and only gets bigger. out to 125/150 yards you will be hard pressed to find a better killer for deer sized animals.

Out of the Winchester Supreme slugs, the only the only thing I have found, in over 100 deer, is a .270 with a 130 Siearra bullet, that is better, the
30/06 with 150, 165, and 180's
.243, with 100 noslers
.270 with 150's
Even a .300 Mag with 180 barnes-X moly coats at 3150 from the muzzle, have not killed a deer sized animal at under 150 yards, as fast as those hollow point nosler partition slugs,
or my .270 with a 130 sierra over 56.5 grains of 4831
There is something about those diameter, weight and velocitys, that works.
the 12Ga, .50, 385 grain @ 1900
20ga, .45 260 grain @ 1900
.270, 130, grain @ 3050

For me they just work and work well, and I am leaving out my .454 Cassual pistol, it does a fantastic job,,, just not many people can shoot them.

I'm giving my opinion from what I have personally done,,, not magazine articles I read.

 

[Dewey101]

in order to shoot a slug out of a 20ga barell is if its a fully rifled barrel. would not recomend shooting them through a clean bore barrel, just get a high powered and knock em zll down, prob solved, but i hate to say it

 

[Carolina Chicken Man]

Based on your original post, it does not seem that you are particularly gun savvy.

I think by far the best suggestion that I have seen is to a) contact some agency that could possibly trap for you or b) contact an experienced hunter who would probabaly be glad to come out and kill the pig for you.