able destruction on crops and pastures. This behavior alone is enough to make ranchers and farmers dislike the animals, and thus often will welcome hunters. Hunting warthogs, at least where I hunted, is primarily a “spot and stalk” proposition, and it’s recommended that a hunter carry a good binocular because you’ll do a lot of glassing. Once a boar with a good set of tusks is spotted, it’s then a matter of stalking and using bushes, tall grass, and termite mounds for cover as you work your way within rifle range. These pigs are tough so it’s recom- mended you carry a rifle chambered in at least a 6mm cartridge, or larger. And there is nothing wrong in using the rifle you used on the plains game you hunted, such as a 30 caliber of some sort. Have a good variable scope on that rifle, as you may end up with a shot at 300 yards or so because you ran out of cover on the open plains and simply couldn’t stalk any closer. Warthogs are, pound for pound, tough so a well-constructed game bullet is a good idea. A bipod on your rifle also is a good idea, but in many areas the grass is too tall for shooting prone. That’s the situation I ran into so I ended up shooting the warthogs I got by sitting on a termite mound and supporting the rifle with a Bog Pod tripod. This arrangement was steady as a rock and I found it worked just fine. In fact, I used the Bog Pod on most of the game animals I hunted during this trip. Some shots were made sitting and some while standing. The warthog is a rather sizable varmint, certainly many times larger than the varmints (prairie dogs and ground squirrels) that I often hunt. And going after a warthog involves “real” hunting that includes dealing with the wind and utilizing cover during your stalk. The warthog with the best set of tusks I got is now being turned into a skull mount by a taxidermist in South Africa. If you ever go hunting in Africa, don’t pass up an opportunity to go after a warthog. You may find that hunting this big varmint can be just as challenging as any of the more handsome game animals on your list. And you may even learn to like its face. Well, perhaps a little bit.
For information on hunting in
South Africa, contact: Heinrich Funck,
hein@jaracal.com
Angle Of Departure
Member Duane C. Balch
What is my angle of departure in terms of measured dis- tance from centerline of target to centerline of my fired group?
SOLUTION: Divide the measured distance in inches from the centerline
of the target to the centerline of the fired group by the distance to the target, also in terms of inches.
Take the arc tangent of that value and convert to angular value in terms of degrees, minutes and seconds of angle.
EXAMPLE:
Say your spread from the centerline of the target to the centerline of the fired group measures 0.625" at 100 yards.
Using the above formula:
0.625" divided by 3,600 (100 yards x 3 feet x 12 inches) equals 1.73611111111E-4, fi nding the arc tangent of this value reveals a value of 9.9471838433E-3.
Converted to degrees, minutes and seconds of angle, this equates to 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 35.8 seconds of angle.
• @ 1/2" spread it equals 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 28.65 seconds of angle.
• @ 1.0" spread it equals 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 57.3 seconds of angle.
• @ 1½" spread it equals 1 minute, 26 seconds of angle.
• @ 5" spread it equals 0 degrees, 4 minutes, 46.48 seconds of angle.
• @ 12" spread it equals 0 degrees, 11 minutes, 27.55 seconds of angle.
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