35wcf,
Dogs and people are always a concern. These hunters may use pistols, shotguns, muzzleloaders, and centerfire rifles. These concerns are mitigated by certain circumstances and rules:
1. The hog fenced terrain is wooded small hills cut up by small creek drainages and two tracks with very few clearings.
2. the only people in the Trophy pasture are the dog handlers and hunters in the follow up pick up.
3. The driver uses radio communication with the dog handlers
4. When a hog is bayed/treed, the truck drives as close as is practical, one hunter gets out, loads his gun and walks toward the baying dogs
5. When the hunter is in range and ready (usually within 20 yards, often closer) the dog handler calls off the dogs and for a brief time the boar is clear
6. The hunter fires and usually kills the boar, but I have seen misses and wounding and an escaping boar at which time the dogs are loosed.
7. Things can go wrong as documented in my story on this site from a couple of years ago when "my" boar cut up a dog and made the others mad.
7. The hunt staff then recover the dead hog and take it to the cleaning area. In some cases, they have to bring out a front end loader as with my last hog.
Pheroze,
My friends and I have taken a number of buffalo in Texas and Australia with the .405 WCF 300 grain NF bullets at 2250 fps.
These critters ran around 1500 -1600 pounds and if shot properly went right down. I would gladly use my .405 with those bullets on a Cape buffalo if given the opportunity. In fact, that was my plan until a friend convinced me to use hand loaded 400 grain .411 Woodleigh bullets at 2076 fps MV and they worked like a charm. That story too, was on several hunting forums, possibly this one.
