Windage Adjustable

What would be a normal Wild Boar distance for a Ithaca Model 37 Deerslayer Smoothbore with Foster Slugs.?

My friend found a place near a reservoir where you can hunt wild boar (open year round in California). Down side: Shotgun only.

Newell:
A 12 gauge slug for wild boar — great idea. Perfect gun. With just a shotgun bead, you are probably good out to 50 or 75 yards. You had mentioned that 50 to 70 yards was about the limit for your 44-40 a few weeks ago. The 12 gauge slug has 3 or 4 times the power of your .44-40. Your .44-40 was about 200 grains at 1300 fps. This 12 gauge slug is about 438 grains at 1600 fps. Much more power, and hits with authority. It has about 2500 ft lbs of energy — compared to the 700 ft lbs of the .44-40. And if you decide to hunt in the “non-lead” “Condor areas” then Federal also have Barnes “all copper” Expander 12 gauge slugs as well.

http://www.federalpremium.com/products/details/slug.aspx?id=126

http://www.federalpremium.com/products/details/slug.aspx?id=730

You may want to look into getting your own 12 gauge shotgun. Maybe a Remington Model 870 — about $370 through “Gallery of Guns” (link attached). You can purchase the additional 12 gauge barrels for bird hunting, home defense, etc. It would double as a perfect “home defense” gun. I think most people on this forum would agree — the 12 gauge pump is the most intimidating weapon out there for home defense. So you would get triple duty out of it — 1) as a bird gun for quail, and pheasant, 2) as a deer and bear, and wild boar gun, and 3) as a home defense weapon. It is also available at many Big 5′s in your area, as well as Turners Outdoorsman.

http://www.galleryofguns.com/Genie/Default.aspx?item=5575&mfg=Remington&mdl=All&cat=2&type=Shotgun&cal=12+Gauge&fin=All&sit=Open+Sights

In either case — with better sights — at least rifle sights (on a new 870 or Mossberg), or adding an inexpensive scope, your range expands out to 100 yards or 125 yards or more.

One other suggestion. Obviously you are “recoil sensitive”. You should look into a $30 Past Recoil Shield (link attached). It is a 1″ think hard foam pad that straps on over your right shoulder, and is harnessed in place over a T shirt. Then you put on a regular shirt on over top. No one can see it on you, but instead of being in pain after 15 shots, now you can shoot 60 or 80 rounds and no pain. I believe that cabelas.com, or Midwayusa.com both have them. $32 or so.

http://www.cabelas.com/p-0061104229478a.shtml

Remember — wild boar are nocturnal — you’ll likely only see them in the very early morning, and late afternoon after 6:00 PM. Good Luck on the wild boar hunt. Rich

EDIT: Regarding the “nocturnal” discussion. In California wild boar season is year round. It is warm over here 9 months out of the year. Wild Boar are heat adverse. Because of this — about 9 months out of the year over here, they will stay holed up during the day in dense cool underbrush — coming out only after sundown. Yes — sometimes they are out during mid-day — so not completely nocturnal — so maybe we all do agree. The wild boar In Southern California, are mostly noturnal because it can be 90 or 95 degrees in April or May — and because of the heat and their heat adversity — the pigs don’t come out until after sundown in the evenings. It is probably different in other states.

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