Wild boar hunting skills?

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I haven't ever been boar hunting. Shooting moving targets isn't really my thing. However, I did read a bit of advice somewhere about driven boar hunting which I thought sounded like good advice, so I'll repeat it here for your benefit:
"Ignore the trees. There are more gaps than there are trees, so just swing through and shoot. If you try to shoot only in the gaps you will miss".
 
The foresters will hate the copper bullets in the trees when the chainsaw reacts.
BTW 3rd Jan was my last driven hunt I had a doctor sight II mounted and it worked fine at the distance ca. 60m.
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VSS said:
I haven't ever been boar hunting. Shooting moving targets isn't really my thing. However, I did read a bit of advice somewhere about driven boar hunting which I thought sounded like good advice, so I'll repeat it here for your benefit:
"Ignore the trees. There are more gaps than there are trees, so just swing through and shoot. If you try to shoot only in the gaps you will miss".
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If you have never killed a few trees on a driven boar hunt you haven’t been trying hard enough 😆 ammo is the cheapest thing on the hunt .
I have shot my fair share of trees and boar 🐗 sometimes at the same time
 
Jagare said:
I have a S&B Exos 1-5x24 on the Mauser and a 1-8×24 Stratos on the Merkel double rifle. Both great scopes as is your Swaro. The thing I've wondered is why they made a driven game scope 1-8x. It just seems to me to be two or three unnecessary magnifications.
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i guess it makes it more versatile. the thing i find strange is that Swarovski make both a Z8i 1-8x24 and a Z8i+ 0.75-6x20!
 
Often beaters reverse the beat i.e. approach the hunting line and then turn back towards where they started. Most often it now that big keilers try to sneek out and medal male boars are felled.
Also, when you hear the dogs (jaktterriers/hunting terriers) then it is time to be on alert. If the dogs stick to a medium bark then they may just sense boar but when screeming then the animals 'are woken up' and now only seconds before first shot is fired. But terriers follow any animal and could be a deer or fox.
Anyway, when the dogs start screeming then goes the adrenaline level up for the hunters, promised. Very thrillling, driven boar hunting, but not easy shots
 
6 things.
1) acquiring a rifle that shoulders and swings well and fitting it with an optic with a wide field of view.
2) learning to shoot accurately at running animals. GAIM + Continuum
3) learning to sex pigs at a glance. Make flashcards.
4) wearing the right gear to stay comfortable and alert when standing or sitting still for several hours. Heated insoles + gilet.
5) paying attention to the brief. Remember what you CAN shoot.
6) listening intelligently to the hunt. You will hear what's about to happen before you see it.
 
Many experiencd hunters prefer point aiming and not swinging. An open sight with a red dot like Aimpoint. When boar spill out you place the red dot at the nose or whatever and follow boar before taking a shot. You will sort of see all the other animals in the corner of your eys ...
Shot gun swinging mainly for over the road shooting
Btw, 2025 was a good boar year here in Sweden with 160 000 pigs tricinella tested. Personally i prefer night stalking with thermals.
 
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The adrenaline level hits the roof when sat out at night with a thermal spotter and for me my Pard on the back as integrated scopes are not yet allowed here and a boar or more sneak out into the area you are guarding (crops).
 
Bavarianbrit.....................Hiding behind a tree and wearing an orange suit was to avoid being shot by other excited hunters. It was my attempt at humour.
 
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