Posted on 03/13/2014 11:57:55 AM PDT by Kartographer
It doesn't even look real.
A hunter in North Carolina says he bagged a 500-pound wild pig last month.
Jett Webb, a 34-year-old from Conetoe, N.C., was hunting boar at the White Oak Ranch Hunting Club in Bertie County on Feb. 28 when he spotted the giant swine.
"It was very surreal,” Webb told WNCT-TV. “It was a shock. It was very humbling to say the least, when you walk up on a beast that big and you say, 'Oh my gosh. I had no idea that there could be something that big running around the woods of Eastern North Carolina.’"
The beast had been seen on trail camera footage years ago, but hunters had failed to capture it until Webb, who says he fired a single shot from a .308-caliber AR-15 rifle from about 50 yards, took it down.
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The only purpose of that weapon is killing people.
They should tell it to a charging boar. I've seen .45 ACP rounds ricochet off a boar's forehead. I'm pretty sure that one .223 round isn't enough to kill that pig. In fact I think I might want full auto for that monster.
Boyhowdy, that’s one BIG pig !
This was an AR platform rifle but not an AR-15. That lower receiver will not facilitate the longer .308 round.
This was an AR-10 type action. The lower receiver is longer and can handle the .308 length cartridges.
Yes we hunt with them all the time. .308, 7MM-08, a couple of the super short mags, all will work on this receiver with different upper receivers.
I shoot an AR-15 for varmints and punching paper. I hunt almost exclusively with an AR-10 in .308 Winchester. It is a very tough, functional, easy to shoot, easy to clean, and accurate rifle.
The AR platform is truly the definition of a modern sporting rifle.
It was a .308 AR-15.
Got a friend who was deer hunting a couple of months ago. His friends named his recent kill “Dick Tracey”.
They try to follow a “one shot one kill” policy.
They named the deer Dick Tracey because by the time he was done that deer looked like a mob hit.
Caption on the picture says he caught it. Really? Note to self, don’t make fun of someone that has caught a 500lb boar.
Otherwise known as an AR-10. I couldn't recognize the difference without close a look at the mag, breach, or bore. But the point still stands for your typical AR-15 "assault rifle." Throwing a bolt between each round on 500 pounds of charging angry boar would probably have most hunters sprinting for the trees with a mess in their fatigues.
I love the .308, but I think he was under gunned, must have been a good shot.
If I knew that beast was in the woods, I’d want a 45/70 with really hot rounds.
Or Michelle, or PIAPS
I’ve seen them that big at Wal-Mart.
PIAPS...Haven’t heard that one in a while...
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Post of the Day!
The hunter lives in the same county I do. My Dad's hunting buddy knows the guy and with his last name, I wouldn't be surprised if we were related on my Mom's side.
This has been all over the news here after being posted on North Carolina Sportsman last week. The hysterical comments that the tree-huggers have been posting on one Raleigh TV station's website must be seen to be believed.
As a side note, the town of Conetoe, NC is actually pronounced "ka-NEE-ta". Don't blame me, I think it was originally an Indian word.
I sent the link above to my boss last week and that was my comment to him, almost verbatim!
“....308-caliber AR-15 rifle...”
That’d be an AR-10 7.62cal x 51mm, most likely.
Size of the magazine also is visually quite different.
You got it; I read right over that one.
Umm..
The "pig" part is correct... ;-)
I was at a different source and the comments were all about how the hunter was kneeling some 5 feet away from the hog to give the impression it was much bigger than it really was.
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