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Wild dogs

Gene B.Gene B. Member Posts: 892 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2001 in General Discussion
Ok my Grandpa owns about 240 acrs of land, and a few days ago some wild dogs came and tried to attack him, but hes scared them away. He wants me to hunt them down but not with a rifle because if I miss I might hit his cattle, so do you think a .40 Glock should kill them? He also said he saw a big cat and some hogs. Will the .40 do the trick?
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  • Gene B.Gene B. Member Posts: 892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was hunting in some woods by myself and on the way out of the woods a pack of about 8 dogs surrounded me and i thought i was going to die.

    I was scared to death. There were more dogs that bullets in my gun. I killed 2 and they left. After that my Dad let me carry a pistol when i went hunting.
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    GENEB- HEHEHEHE! You better be careful. Just because the dogs are on your property, does not necassarily mean you are allowed to shoot them. Check with local and state laws to make sure it is legal for you to shoot them. If it is not legal, do as my uncle suggests: Make sure nobody is around, and kick some leaves on them after you shoot them.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    If you get close enough for a pistol a .40 will do it. Wild mutts make good fertilizer!
    If you run, you'll just die tired!
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  • Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
    edited November -1
    Gene, why not use a shot gun....12 or 20 either one will thin them out alittle...IMHO
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gene B......Let me get this straight. Your Granpa figures you're such a lousy shot that you might hit one of his cows instead of a dog? What have you done to give him this impression. Does it have anything with barns and shotguns? JUST FUNNIN' SON, JUST FUNNIN'.If the dogs are wild enough to attack someone, they're probably not going to let you get close enough to use a handgun anyway and I'm not sure I'd want to get that close. I say, harvest those doggies with your rifle and tell Granpa after the fact. If you hit one of his cows, deny everything, admit nothing and make counter accusations.Good hunting!!!Mudge
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • bfairbfair Member Posts: 250 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    mudge" If you hit one of his cows,deny everything, admit nothing and make counter accusations".That would be the Bill and Billary tactic.
    Home of the Blue Angels, P'colaSemper Paratus
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  • Gene B.Gene B. Member Posts: 892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It might have been that time when I was shooting bottles with my .22 rifle and I guess I missed or something because I heard a loud moooo and when I went to go see there was small hole in one of the cows legs, but thank God the bullet didnt go in. Im must have lost speed by hitting branches and stuff.
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  • Gene B.Gene B. Member Posts: 892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It might have been that time when I was shooting bottles with my .22 rifle and I guess I missed or something because I heard a loud moooo and when I went to go see there was small hole in one of the cows legs, but thank God the bullet didnt go in. Im must have lost speed by hitting branches and stuff. And yes I told him about it.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    GeneB,After 41 yrs in the predator busness,I have hade many dog calls.The biggest problem with dog damage is not wild dogs.The problem is good old Browne laying in the front yard by day,and then geting togather with his buddys up and down the road at night.Dogs that wont get near each other during the day will pack up at night and kill for fun.I got a call a few years back about a dog problem with cows nearly a mile from my house.When I set up on the heard six dogs showed up.The first two I killed where MINE.True wild dogs are very rare.Thse are dogs that actualy breed and rase pups in the wild.I have only seen two wild dog packs in all this time.They were located in very remote aerias.As far as which gun to use,Hands down 12ga #4 buck shot.
    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was driving around looking for coyotes one morning about dawn with a friend of mine, and an animal ran across the road. We thought it was a big dog resembling a greyhound but heavier and thicker in the forequarters. It loped like a coyote out to about a hundred and fifty yards, then stopped and looked back. My friend stuck his .222 Sako out the window and put the crosshairs on him. I said "Jack as sure as you shoot him we'll find a collar on him with the name Rover on it." So we let him go and drove up the road about a half mile and stopped at a farmhouse where a farmer came to the door. I asked him if he had a big yellow dog. He replied "Oh God boys I hope you shot that S.O.B. he must have killed about eight of my lambs in the last two months." When they lope like a coyote, pull the trigger. If it's illegal, take G. Gordon Liddy's advice on the three S's. Shoot, shovel & shut up.
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A few years ago I was cruising around the North Philadelphia ghetto at about 300am. No one was out, no cars, no people no nothing-except a pack of dogs. They owned the city at night. Must have been ten of them roaming the city while all the people were sleeping. I think it was probably wise that I did not take my pistol out and start shooting.
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