Boar & Gator Hunt'N

This is a 1st for me I have hunted Deer & smaller game but never Boar or Gator.

Will be using a Remington 870 12 Gauge with a slug barrel & a Glock .45 Auto as my back-up.

I want a couple of Gators for a vest, some boots & a belt + some teeth & claws for a hatband.

The boar will become pulled pork sammichs.

Will update Ya'll with results.

where in FL you goin?

Don't really know exactly but it is somewhere near Melborne,FLA on a Hunting Preserve.

wild boar is yumm-o! good luck down there.....enjoy the beach if you can Some nice bikinis in melbourne.

I would take something BIGGER than that pissy 45 auto, Man you need a 44 Mag or a 45 Long colt...that 45 will just Piss off a Gator... and I hope if you shoot a Boar with that 45 you can Run like hell.... cuz I know he can and will...... and Nothing worse than a Pissed Off Boar with Killin on his mind......

But on another Note Boar is Oh so Yummy Way Different than domestic pig.....


Randy

Bring some to the Bash !!! Yummy !! Wild Boar BBQ !!!

I agree a 45 auto is a little lite, I would suggest atleast 45 colt but I haven't been able to find a whole lot of ammo here lately.

I wouldn't be so much worried about the gators as I would the Bore. Once they start charging, your going to want something to put them down fast. Just depends on how good of a shot you are under pressure! My cousin went bore hunting with a spear he made himself and three dogs. The spear was a very effective way to stop the bore. (As he drove the spear through the bore as it was charging him!)

jones wrote:I agree a 45 auto is a little lite, I would suggest atleast 45 colt but I haven't been able to find a whole lot of ammo here lately.

I wouldn't be so much worried about the gators as I would the Bore. Once they start charging, your going to want something to put them down fast. Just depends on how good of a shot you are under pressure! My cousin went bore hunting with a spear he made himself and three dogs. The spear was a very effective way to stop the bore. (As he drove the spear through the bore as it was charging him!)

I just take a switch.

What's all this talk of guns and hunting? Don't any of you pansies do it Rambo style....?

jones wrote:My cousin went bore hunting with a spear he made himself and three dogs. The spear was a very effective way to stop the bore. (As he drove the spear through the bore as it was charging him!)

Wow, that would take some nerve!!!

Good luck!!

Bill

windsor wrote:What's all this talk of guns and hunting? Don't any of you pansies do it Rambo style....?

You go try it and let us know how it works out for you.

I hear that the same people my cousin used down in La. have actually had people hunt bore with a big knife. He said the hunting wasn't the scarriest part. It was the driving into the middle of no where in La. swamp meeting a guy with a large revolver on his belt and three dogs. Then getting in this small flat bottom boat heading off into the swamp. The tour guide caught it all on VHS but this has been more than a decade ago.

I think it would be fun, he just made his spear out of a shovel. Another one of my cousins has a forge, they just heated and forged the shovel blade into a spear and sharpened it.

I left Thursday before last.

18 hours later we reached base camp my Uncle's 125 acre ranch and slept about 3 1/2 hours.

Went fishing at the ranch caught some 2 good size Tilapa & 2 Channel Cat these fish( + others caught by Dad & my Boss)fed us one evening.

Hunted Friday evening and found Nada. ( Saturday hunted morning & Sunday off)

Monday evening I shot my 1st Sow she weighed about 110 lbs I got her with a 30'06 at about 75-125 yards we went about a 1/4 of a mile into a Palmeto & Hardwood swamp after her. She dressed out to around 30-40 lbs of meat.

Hunted Tuesday morning Dad & I got nothing but we did well Monday ( 1 sow for me, 2 for my buddy/Boss, 1 Boar for Dad), Saturday my buddy/Boss shot a 7 1/4 foot female 'Gator with a .22 Hornet through the left eye.

I found that my deer rifle a Remington Mohawk 600 .243 Win has a #@^&* scope and caused me to miss a 2-3 1/2 'Gator as well as 2 sows.

Overall this was a great trip & all meat collected will feed the Realtors,Office Staff, & families at the Summer Office Cookout.

I will have pictures coming I hope soon.

Next year I will pack my .243 in a hard case.

I plan to use a Remington 870 or Mossberg 500 with a slug barrel at least 1 day of the hunt.

I just traded a S&W Sigma with (3) 15 round mags for a EAA Windicator snub nosed .357 Mag revolver.

I want to carry this weak side in a shoulder harness + my .45 Glock in a hip holster strong side.

sounds cool. is it pretty spendy to hunt gators?

Where we hunt 'Gator they charge $100 a foot + $52 for the State of Florida + meat process fee.

A 9 1/2 foot 'Gator could cost ($100X9.5)+$52+$40 for a total of $1042 without Taxidermy fees.

One good thing about little 'Gators( 18 inches-5+ feet) is you can kill these without a tag as they are considered a nuisence.

I had a shot at a 2 1/2-3 foot 'Gator and missed he dived into the bottom of a pond & each day was in another pond so I never had another shot.

My Uncle called he now has a 5+ foot 'Gator living near his dock and a 9 footer living in his mini ponds.

We were 1 week to early