Will a 45 Cal. stop a wild hog?

[DarrellSimpson]

I was shot by a 22 mag in the right thigh from about 25 yrds. I was at a outdoor party when a guy showed up and shot his ex girlfriend , the guy shot several people , he was just spraying bullets trying to get her , she survived 3 shots to the chest , when I was hit the bullet kinda knocked me off balance , I had a very unpleasant burning sensation / charlie horse feeling . The bullet was a hollow point and my thigh bone stopped the bullet , the surgeon got all the pieces but he left a 6 inch scar where he had to cut my leg open . I think I would have died within 20 min of the shooting from blood loss and shock , but it certainly didn't put me down , If I was armed I would have had plenty of time to have shot the shooter . The shooter died later from a head injury from one of the guys taking him down with a landscaping brick . I have read about hydrostatic shock and it is something I would consider when choosing a caliber and bullet design for personal defense , I for one know that if I was in a high pressure situation I would have a lot of trouble with shot placement , decisions to pull the side arm and discharge it are only a few seconds , only repetitive practice for muscle memory is going to help with shot placement and I dont know if I could hit a charging hog , they are so fast , compact , and close to the ground , I hope I never am in that situation , I carry a 40 mm soft point but hope I dont have to use it .

 

[CCWKen]

If you look at all the pictures from the website where this picture is posted, there is a big variety in the hogs taken at these places. Some look like large farm hogs, others look like foreign boars, and then everything between those. Lots of small meat hogs taken by the looks. Whitetail Deer Trophy Hunting in Texas at the Wildlife Ranch in the Texas Hill Country
In the Trophy Room section of that site, they say large males can weigh 300 pounds. I wonder it that is the max size they offer or if that is truly the largest these boars can grow.

True Boars don't get much larger but they interbreed. You still don't want 300 lbs. or razor sharp tusks dicing you up until you bleed out. If you do go down and black out, there's a good chance they won't find much of your remains. I think the record for a feral hog is something like 1200 or 1300 pounds. I don't remember exactly but they can get pretty huge. But the hogs tend to not be as aggressive as a boar. A lot of hogs have been recorded in the 1,000-1,100 pound range. I remember seeing one strung up with the hind legs about touching the ground. From the hind legs to the snout was a good 2x the height of the burly guy standing next to it. There's lots of pictures on the web. Some fake, some very real. It's akin to hunting Rhino if you're into the thrill. There's even some adrenalin junkies that hunt them with a bow. The fake pictures in a previous post aren't all that far off. If it weren't for the short legs, you might mistake them for a cow.

 

[oosik]

I don't know about a 45 - - Tim Allen, John Travolta & the other two are a pretty rough gang :laughing: :dance1:

 

[MossRoad]

Come to think of it, I have been "shot". Sort of. I was on a public range (not an IPSC range) a long time ago and an idiot next to me was shooting a .44 magnum revolver loaded with some "salvaged rounds". I asked about them as they did not sound right going off. Some were weak sounding and some sounded "extra loud". He said that they had been under water and later recovered. The next thing I know he touched another one off and I got a piece of metal in my leg thru my jeans. It bled a bit and I picked out the metal and decided to leave the area. I am not sure what happened, but I think the case ruptured and spit brass my way. In any case I had enough and left.

I used to shoot on a 17 and under team when I was a kid. Indoor, 50' range with .22. MANY times we'd come in and start shooting only to get peppered in the face by fragments coming back at us. Then we'd have to stop shooting and move to another lane. From what I remember, the instructors said guys would come into the range at night with high powered stuff and dent the steel backdrop that was at a 45 degree angle. Then the .22s would not be deflected down into the sand, they'd hit the dents and come back at us. It got to the point that they banned several members from using the range anymore. If you looked at the ceiling above the shooting stations or the wall behind you, it was amazing the amount of shredded ceiling tiles and holes in the paneling.

I did have a .25 explode in my hand when I shot it. That was fun. The slide stop appeared to have metal fatigue. When I fired it, the slide came back and kept on a commin'.... right into my face! I had a bruise from the slide on my upper right lip and a spiral bruise across both lips on an angle from a spring. I was test-firing the gun for my father-in-law. He hadn't shot it in 20 years. I disassembled it, inspected it, cleaned it and fired two shots. The 2nd one broke it. It was a cheap little .25 semiauto. And as I was standing there, holding my face, afraid to remove my hands and see if I was bleeding, I remembered my mother's words regarding cheap handguns.... "It'll blow up in your face!" is what she always said... and it did!

 

[MossRoad]

I don't know about a 45 - - Tim Allen, John Travolta & the other two are a pretty rough gang :laughing: :dance1:

HAAAAA hahahaaa!!! I got it! Nice! :laughing: :thumbsup:

 

[k0ua]

It was a cheap little .25 semiauto. And as I was standing there, holding my face, afraid to remove my hands and see if I was bleeding, I remembered my mother's words regarding cheap handguns.... "It'll blow up in your face!" is what she always said... and it did

Probably a Lorcin or a Raven or something like it.. Some of those cheap little throwdown pistols have slides made out of Zamak, a kind of zinc pot metal. You would be safer throwing the thing at someone than shooting it. When one of them would come thru my shooting lane at the women's handgun seminar, I would not let the woman shoot them. I would supply a quality firearm for them to use. I just didn't want to take any chances.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah, that's exactly what it reminded me of... broken pot metal. I keep the pieces on top of my gun safe to remind me to be cautious.

 

[k0ua]

Yeah, that's exactly what it reminded me of... broken pot metal. I keep the pieces on top of my gun safe to remind me to be cautious.

Put a magnet on the pieces. I bet they are non-ferrous. And they are not Aluminum either, They have to have some weight to them because they operate on the blowback principal, so the slide weight (and recoil spring tension) is the only thing keeping the breech closed until the pressure drops in the barrel as they is no locking lugs or tilting barrel mechanism to provide lockup until the pressure drops.

 

[CCWKen]

Probably a Lorcin or a Raven or something like it.. Some of those cheap little throwdown pistols have slides made out of Zamak, a kind of zinc pot metal. You would be safer throwing the thing at someone than shooting it. When one of them would come thru my shooting lane at the women's handgun seminar, I would not let the woman shoot them. I would supply a quality firearm for them to use. I just didn't want to take any chances.

Rohm (AKA: RG Industries) is another. I've got an RG 26 .25 ACP model that I'm afraid to fire after reading about a bunch of failures. I got it when my Dad passed away. It has a magnetic barrel, ejector, mag body and a few other small parts but the slide and frame are non-magnetic. Nearly all of the bluing is gone and it looks like some kind of aluminum alloy. I was going to save it for one of the police "buy-back" programs but they haven't had any in years and there's no serial number that I could find. Perhaps older than 1968?

 

[k0ua]

Rohm (AKA: RG Industries) is another. I've got an RG 26 .25 ACP model that I'm afraid to fire after reading about a bunch of failures. I got it when my Dad passed away. It has a magnetic barrel, ejector, mag body and a few other small parts but the slide and frame are non-magnetic. Nearly all of the bluing is gone and it looks like some kind of aluminum alloy. I was going to save it for one of the police "buy-back" programs but they haven't had any in years and there's no serial number that I could find. Perhaps older than 1968?

I bet that slide is "pot metal". It is a zinc alloy. It will melt at a lower temprature than aluminum. Here is some info:

Pot metal - Wikipedia