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 Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: whats a good assualr rifle for ferreal hogs |
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IS a sks assualt rifle a good hog gun
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At a relatively short range with good soft points it should do just fine.
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Mini-30, SKS, AK47 or an AR would be a good choice. Just like Matt said use the right ammo.
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If you choose to use an AK or SKS, take the time to tune it. They are great rifles but the need to be tuned to shoot more accurately. The SKS would be my first choice. The North Vietnamese used them as sniper rifles as I recall. The will definately out shoot an AK, thought they are only a 10 shot.
I have an AR which I think is the best over all choice. My perfered hog gun is my Remington 798 .243.
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Some of the Comm-Block eastern European countries used the SKS as a sniper rifle as well.
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Exactly Matt. They probably still do. I brought one home from Viet Nam. It was never fired and only dropped once!
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thank you all for the information
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| ChuckS wrote: | | Exactly Matt. They probably still do. I brought one home from Viet Nam. It was never fired and only dropped once! |
Chuck,
Thanks for what you did over there. You guys had a really tough road to hoe, sorry you don't get the credit you're due. It's great that you brought back such a great trophy. Do you ever shoot the SKS?
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Hunter,
If you go hog hunting, please share stories and photos. We're suckers for such things.
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| SharpsShtr wrote: | | ChuckS wrote: | | Exactly Matt. They probably still do. I brought one home from Viet Nam. It was never fired and only dropped once! |
Chuck,
Thanks for what you did over there. You guys had a really tough road to hoe, sorry you don't get the credit you're due. It's great that you brought back such a great trophy. Do you ever shoot the SKS?
Matt |
I only fired it a few times. I brought it home with me. I ended up selling it to a gun dealer Muskegon, MI in 1972. I was still in the Army and I was being transfered to Alaska. I traded it off for a Win 7mm Mag, case, cleaning kit and about $400 cash.
Mine actually came out of a cache in Memot, Cambodia, during Operation Fishhook in May 1970. It was a 60 day joint Army operation with the 9th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div and the 1st Air Cav. I was with the 9th Div at the time. I later ended up also serving with the 25th and the Cav.
Our job was to take away cache's of rice, weapons and ammo the NVA and the Viet Cong were stockpiling there after bring it down the Ho Chi Minh trail, and we did one hell of a job. A lot of brave men paid the ultimate price. Some by protecting the cache's and some by taking them. I recall we had a whole platoon of 10 M-113 Armored Personal Carriers wiped out.
Needless to say, when I got it, it was still wrapped in oilcloth and cosmolene. It was a genuine captured war souvinere.
I loved the way it would shoot, but it was too short for me. It was very fast and accurate up to about 150 yards and very sociable as far as handling and recoil is concerned. As I recall mine had the Chinese marking. Some had Russian markings on them.
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thank you for your service sir, and i went out yesterday to look for hogs and im about to start baiting them
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Where are you located? I would like to harvest some. I'm in New Mexico.
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Hunter,
The SKS will make a fine hog gun. Think of it as a semi-auto 30-30 Winchester.
The 7.62 x 39 and 30-30 are similar in performance and the SKS is a older well proven carbine design. You can't go wrong with a SKS as long as you understand what its limitations are.
It should handle any hog or deer within 100 meters/yards without any trouble if you put the bullet where it belongs.
It will still travel out to much longer range but with the loss of energy it would be short on energy for a clean kill on a large hog beyond 100-150 meters IMO.
Yes, I am sure there is somebody out there who has shot one at a farther distance with a SKS( ....after a ricochet from a bolder and then bouncing the round off a jackrabbits forehead during this lackluster 850 yard shot.....) but in the real world lets use some hunter ethics!!
Pics and Story are a must!!!!! 
Coz
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| ChuckS wrote: | . . . Mine actually came out of a cache in Memot, Cambodia, during Operation Fishhook in May 1970. It was a 60 day joint Army operation with the 9th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div and the 1st Air Cav. I was with the 9th Div at the time. I later ended up also serving with the 25th and the Cav.
Our job was to take away cache's of rice, weapons and ammo the NVA and the Viet Cong were stockpiling there after bring it down the Ho Chi Minh trail, and we did one hell of a job. A lot of brave men paid the ultimate price. Some by protecting the cache's and some by taking them. I recall we had a whole platoon of 10 M-113 Armored Personal Carriers wiped out.
Needless to say, when I got it, it was still wrapped in oilcloth and cosmolene. It was a genuine captured war souvinere. . . |
In the last year I stumbled across a thread on a forum somewhere where a bunch of G.I.s in southeast Asia were standing around and looking at rifles in a huge pile of captured weapons. There must have been thousands in that one pile alone. Many were as you say still wrapped in paper. I wish that I could find the photos for you.
Matt
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There was literlly mountains of weapons and rice. The rice we gave to villagers and then burned the rest. The weapons were destroyed with explosives "after" we took what we wanted.
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