Bayonet Hunting
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Forum Name: Hunting with the .303 British cartridge.
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Topic: Bayonet Hunting
Posted By: Irish Blonde
Subject: Bayonet Hunting
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 3:44am
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LOL! Yes, I do think I'll take the No4Mk2 with fixed bayonet into the thickets to recover/finish wounded hogs. I got charged last year by a big sow when I only had my 45ACP Glock and it jammed(slide locked back) on me with a sow coming straight at me. I couldn't get the slide back into battery, so I was ready to clock it over the head with the gun in last ditch effort. But luckily, one of the piglets flopped around and it took her attention off me and onto her piglet. Diverting maybe 3yds from me. I stopped retrieving hogs with a handgun, so I figure the bayonet and 303. If anything, for the story! Glock: I had a G41 that's the longer slide version in an open top/bottom belt slide holster. After a week in the dust/red dirt of TX, there was basically clay in the slide channels, so I neglected cleaning thinking it was a Glock. I know, I know. I have only had that one time failure in a hundred thousand rounds and 8-10 models over the past 20yrs, but Murphy mage it happen on that sow of all times!
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Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 8:41am
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Ièm glad you survived what otherwise could have been a very dangerous or deadly outcome! Your No.4/MK2 can handle that situation handily. The sharp part out front adds to the security and makes for a good BBQ skewer. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 9:02am
In an event such as that, I would prefer one of my Mk III*'s with P1907 for the extra reach. 
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 9:37am
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I carry a M1911A1 just in case. Only used it once. |
Posted By: Irish Blonde
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 4:02pm
It's going down starting tomorrow! I'll feel better as I duck walk through the tunnels they make in the thickets with the pig sticker mounted. I am slow navigating them, but they can blast through these thickets like nothing.  |
Canuck wrote:Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 4:09pm
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NICE!!! As a side note, here in Alberta, the goobermint has made a new law that outlaws feral hog hunting on crown land. You can only shoot them if you own the property or have someone come and shoot them on your property. How stoopid is that? Watch, in a few years that law might be withdrawn when the feral hog population explodes exponentially compared to today. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 4:15pm
The funny thing is there's nowhere near as much extra reach with that as people think!   ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 5:52pm
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Charge! I am glad I hunt pigs from a tree stand. As I served in a tank unit when I was in the Army my bayonet skill are very poor. I charge from a pig might just bend or break your bayonet. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: December 17 2025 at 7:58pm
im still going with a P1907 myself
 there is something about a long blade that makes me feel better than a short spike or short blade - and when its on the end of a substantial club that shoots 303 - yup thats where im going i only have two of these left - the one with the hookie and the mkIV with an early P07
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 18 2025 at 12:58pm
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The only pig I ever shot was a really wild one back in The Dominican Republic. The thing just went "Hog wild" & charged at a group of us from across the Bataye (central square & ceremonial ball court) of a Taíno village. No-one had any idea why, no-one did anything to provoke it & we didn't know it was there till the charge started. I drew & fired, & by that time it was probably 25~30yds. distant & closing fast. I put 2 125 Gr HPs @1350 FPS from a 6" barrelled revolver into it with solid hits. It went down on its knees. I yelled for everyone to stay clear cocked again & waited. The damn thing got up pouring out blood & went for me about at 12yds this time. I hit it square on in the upper face twice more. It went down. I recooked & with my last 2 rounds did a security stopper through the skull from one side. Those things are tough! & mean as all get out. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 18 2025 at 1:12pm
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When I hog hunt in North Carolina by myself from a tree stand I use a 300 Weatherby with a scope. Forty yards or less. If I hunt with my son or friends I use a 308 or a 303. Pigs are very hard to kill. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 18 2025 at 2:34pm
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Oh I wish I'd had a serious rifle, but weren't to be. We had my first Barbacoa later & I became a member of the tribe.
------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 18 2025 at 3:31pm
| I am a member of a tribe, rule 303. |
Posted By: Drax
Date Posted: December 27 2025 at 7:20pm
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I thought one of the bayonet patterns was nicknamed "Pig sticker", though that may only be here in NZ ? Once the dogs have a pig pinned down, we will finish the job with a long blade hand knife called a "Pig sticker". Still think I'd be up tree rather than face an irate boar, even with a fixed bayonet. ------------- Jobs not done until you've bled on it. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 29 2025 at 12:38pm
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In the UK the spike bayonets were known as "pig stickers" because there was no cutting edge. I have no idea if anyone actually tried sticking a pig with one but I wouldn't chance it unless desperate.  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 29 2025 at 2:55pm
| Based on what I remember reading the No4 spoke bayonets where tested on dead sheep bodies. The sheep might have been covered with a German overcoat. |