Angus and Beef Master haven't been interbreeding for centuries either.
PS- Texas has no such law requiring only male hogs to be trapped and released. There are few, if any pure European and/or Russian bores in Texas and only genetic testing would reveal the percentage of ancestry in a wild hog.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/
To clarify my earlier advice, when finding an accurate load for a .54 rifle, start with 55 grains of your favorite black powder and increase the load by 5 grains until nice tight groups result.
-then study hog anatomy as it varies from that of another common north American big game animal; the white tailed deer. My most accurate powder charge for my 54 caliber rifle is 85 grains of 2f Goes but I would not recommend that amount of powder to anyone who has not worked up a load in his or her .54 rifle. In other words, don't start with a powder charge that works in my rifle just because you have the same caliber as there are a number of other variables that will not be the same and you cannot expect the same accuracy as I get. Everyone has to see for themselves.
And for the record, hogs are not bulletproof and I have seen them fall to very small calibers that where very well placed while I have also seen hogs wounded by very large calibers that where poorly placed. This includes the time that a client managed to shoot the genitals right off a boar without killing it but still emptying his rifle. The hog did indeed run until one well placed shot from the client's son dropped it immediately using a rifle chambered in a caliber that some consider obsolete and incapable of killing deer with.
PS- Texas has no such law requiring only male hogs to be trapped and released. There are few, if any pure European and/or Russian bores in Texas and only genetic testing would reveal the percentage of ancestry in a wild hog.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/
To clarify my earlier advice, when finding an accurate load for a .54 rifle, start with 55 grains of your favorite black powder and increase the load by 5 grains until nice tight groups result.
-then study hog anatomy as it varies from that of another common north American big game animal; the white tailed deer. My most accurate powder charge for my 54 caliber rifle is 85 grains of 2f Goes but I would not recommend that amount of powder to anyone who has not worked up a load in his or her .54 rifle. In other words, don't start with a powder charge that works in my rifle just because you have the same caliber as there are a number of other variables that will not be the same and you cannot expect the same accuracy as I get. Everyone has to see for themselves.
And for the record, hogs are not bulletproof and I have seen them fall to very small calibers that where very well placed while I have also seen hogs wounded by very large calibers that where poorly placed. This includes the time that a client managed to shoot the genitals right off a boar without killing it but still emptying his rifle. The hog did indeed run until one well placed shot from the client's son dropped it immediately using a rifle chambered in a caliber that some consider obsolete and incapable of killing deer with.
