SKS - Best Rifle for Hog Hunting in Australia?

[206thsense]

Apparently so, as long as you got a good bike... check this video:

The Best Gun for Hunting Wild Pigs in Australia- Part 5- SKS - YouTube

70 hogs in one day! Crazy pigs...

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[mosinguy1]

I have always used mine when I was back home in S. Oklahoma.

 

[unklekippy]

If I ever get an opportunity to shoot wild pigs, I always figured the first guns I would pick would be a SKS(with the fixed 10 round mag. Those 30 rounders are a pain.) or a 30-30 Winchester lever gun. Third choice would be a .357 mag lever. Good video.

 

[Certaindeaf]

An AR with a 40'd kill them varmints too.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

This particular SKS looks like it might be a Model D. Nice.

 

[jluck]

This particular SKS looks like it might be a Model D. Nice.

Yep. M or D series. No goofy fixed 10 rounder or worse. ...aftermarket duckbill junk mag.
What a shame it was molested in to some aftermarket stock though.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

Yep. M or D series. No goofy fixed 10 rounder or worse. ...aftermarket duckbill junk mag.
What a shame it was molested in to some aftermarket stock though.

Well spoken.

 

[soberups]

You probably arent going to be legal with a D model in Australia, I'm pretty sure they prohibit semi-autos with detachable mags. I think they allow fixed mags with a 5 round limit, so the standard fixed mag with a plug installed is the best you will be able to do.

 

[jluck]

You probably arent going to be legal with a D model in Australia, I'm pretty sure they prohibit semi-autos with detachable mags. I think they allow fixed mags with a 5 round limit, so the standard fixed mag with a plug installed is the best you will be able to do.

Guy in video is either illegal or not in Australia then... That is a M or D series SKS in video.

I don't know there laws well enough to say personally.

 

[soberups]

Guy in video is either illegal or not in Australia then... That is a M or D series SKS in video.

I don't know there laws well enough to say personally.

He is a specially licensed hunter. Obtaining a license to own an SKS with a 30 round mag in Australia is the equivalent of getting a license to own a machine gun here in the USA...theoretically possible but only at great expense and hassle. As a practical matter the average farmer or hunter in Australia is limited to a bolt gun or a single shot shotgun.

 

[206thsense]

He is a specially licensed hunter. Obtaining a license to own an SKS with a 30 round mag in Australia is the equivalent of getting a license to own a machine gun here in the USA...theoretically possible but only at great expense and hassle. As a practical matter the average farmer or hunter in Australia is limited to a bolt gun or a single shot shotgun.

This. It's the reason many farmers hire him and his crew; with only bolt guns or single shot shotguns, they don't have enough firepower to eradicate the hogs.