There is, according to my hunter safety instructor, one other target on a charging boar:
If.. *if*... he lifts his head, you can go under his chin and hit at the base of the neck, which will drive deep into his vitals and drop him on the spot. Which is precisely what said instructor managed to do, after the first shot - from a .44 Magnum at reasonably close range - hit Puumba right between his beady eyes, rode up under his skin along the top of his skull, and exited the back, *making him mad* more than anything. Basically what happened to Chriselda, only the instructor had time for a second shot, and a lot of luck.
Hmmm. I'm remembering a different story told of an African villager who took a .22 to an elephant.... not actually trying to kill him, but just shoo him off... hit the eye, traveled up the optic nerve track, and dropped the pachyderm right in the potato patch. It took the village three days to butcher the beast... of course, only a soup could hit the beady eye of a charging boar, and Chriselda wasn't one yet....
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Date: 2014-10-08 03:59 am (UTC)There is, according to my hunter safety instructor, one other target on a charging boar:
If.. *if*... he lifts his head, you can go under his chin and hit at the base of the neck, which will drive deep into his vitals and drop him on the spot. Which is precisely what said instructor managed to do, after the first shot - from a .44 Magnum at reasonably close range - hit Puumba right between his beady eyes, rode up under his skin along the top of his skull, and exited the back, *making him mad* more than anything. Basically what happened to Chriselda, only the instructor had time for a second shot, and a lot of luck.
Hmmm. I'm remembering a different story told of an African villager who took a .22 to an elephant.... not actually trying to kill him, but just shoo him off... hit the eye, traveled up the optic nerve track, and dropped the pachyderm right in the potato patch. It took the village three days to butcher the beast... of course, only a soup could hit the beady eye of a charging boar, and Chriselda wasn't one yet....