Posted on 09/24/2013 1:38:54 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Police have enlisted the help of a trapper to round up a group of feral hogs scaring residents of a subdivision in suburban Atlanta.
Some parents fear sending their children to a school bus stop in the Lithonia area, where up to four of the hogs are roaming the streets and eating trash in front yards.
Authorities hope the hogs can be trapped in cages by Wednesday morning, DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said.
“They’re causing quite a stir to say the least,” Parish said shortly before noon Tuesday, as she headed out to the neighborhood, about 17 miles east of downtown Atlanta.
The police department’s animal control officers were at the scene, but the plan was for a volunteer trapper to actually capture the animals.
(Excerpt) Read more at atlanta.cbslocal.com ...
1. Cartridges for average size feral hogs at short to medium range. Included in this group are the 6.5x54, .30-30 Winchester, .300 Savage, .32 Winchester Special, .35 Remington, .375 Winchester, .44 Remington Magnum, .444 Marlin, .45-70 and similar cartridges. Suitable bullet weights would include 125-140 grain in 6.5mm, 150-180 grain in .30 caliber, 170 grain in .32 caliber, 200 grain in .35 caliber, 200-250 grain in .375 caliber, 240-265 grain in .44 Magnum, 240-265 grain in .444, and 300-405 grain in .45-70. Choose the same bullet designs that you’d use for deer hunting.
2. Cartridges for average size feral hogs at medium to long range. Here such calibers as the .243 Winchester, 6mm Remington, .240 Weatherby Magnum, .257 Roberts, .25-06, .257 Magnum, .260 Remington, 6.5x55, 6.5mm Remington Magnum, 6.5x68, .264 Winchester Magnum, .270 Winchester, .270 Magnum, 7x57, 7mm-08, 7x64, .280 Remington, 7mm Magnum, .308 Winchester, and .30-06 come into their own. Controlled expansion bullets suitable for deer hunting such as the Sierra GameKing, Hornady Interlock, Remington Core-Lokt, Federal Soft Point, Nosler Solid Base, Speer HotCor, and Winchester Power Point are commonly recommended. Examples of suitable bullet weights would be 100 grain in .243, 115-120 grain in .25 caliber, 120-140 grain in 6.5mm (.26) caliber, 130-150 grain in .270, 139-162 grain in 7mm (.28) caliber, and 150-180 grain in .30 caliber.
http://www.chuckhawks.com/feral_hog_cartridges.htm
That would just make them mad.
Do you think he is going to stand still after the first one?
Those all should work but they are in a residential area and all have a long “carry” even after going clean through the hog. Might be a job for an expert archer.
So, the kids that can’t get a .40-70 1894 Winchester have to carry a 12 ga?
When I wuz a kid we had ~10 at the bus stop. Of course no one had guns with them until we started driving vehicles to school.....
30-30 is fairly reasonable.
Progressives march against common sense?
Not so much at school anymore.
(30-30 ammo is becoming available again even).
People around here buy pigs and then cut them loose near the Appalachian Trail so they can hunt them. There is no hog season in Va.
Guess congress has declared a holiday and let itself out early.
In Texas we are so over run with hogs I think the farmers would shoot anyone doing this.
Not to mention, the children would be expelled from school for looking at a gun while enrolled in school or whatever the new zero tolerance rule is.
They would.
just ban the pigs. if that don’t work, have the people move.
Have people forgotten how to make bacon?
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