Author Topic: Trick Pig (Read 1200 times)

JimInNJ · « **on:** August 08, 2004, 04:07:11 PM »

Ever see a pig do this?

We couldn't get any of the others to balance like this if we tried. And we did try.

Shot and photographed by Cliff Aversano Sr.
Centreal Jersey Rifle and Pistol Club, August 8th 2004.
Thanks to Tony Garguilo for providing the images.

jgalar · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2004, 05:02:11 PM »

It looks like a joke you would pull on one of your shooting buddies - bolt one of the legs down so all it will do is spin asside.

Feez · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2004, 01:18:31 AM »

It looks like the base is tilted a little forward, but even if it is, it should be impossible.

genphideaux · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2004, 03:14:28 AM »

That pig should be barred from the range for unfair behavior, go kick him in the hams.

Dawg

drover · « **Reply #4 on:** August 09, 2004, 04:01:05 AM »

Actually I have seen this quite a few times in my many years of silhouette shooting, it really isn't that uncommon and as time goes on you will see it again. If you take a look at a pig the center of mass is directly above the front leg/foot area and all it takes is a marginal hit that puts enough energy on the animal to give it a small amount of inertia and it can end up looking at you. I have seen the same thing happen with chickens and turkeys also.

Sometimes I would swear that they have a smile on their face when this happens.

ajj · « **Reply #5 on:** August 09, 2004, 05:33:34 AM »

Yeah, but the feathered animals only got one foot! This did count for half a pig didn't it?

shootingpaul · « **Reply #6 on:** August 09, 2004, 06:28:05 AM »

actually it happened to me as well, I think about 4 years ago in Big River SK, at a provincial match, the pig stood the same as this one on one front leg, also same day I shot a chicken which made exactly 360 degree spin, unfortunatelly both did not count............. but we all had a good laugh

Bird Dog · « **Reply #7 on:** August 09, 2004, 11:16:41 AM »

It happened to me at Raton this year on a Turkey and a chicken during the same match.... now that is luck isn't it?

Hornetx60 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 09, 2004, 01:51:50 PM »

I've seen this happen quite a lot more in Pistol silh. A friend of mine makes a habit of hitting the top edge of chickens and sitting them on their butts or into the feeding position. Ihmsa uses reset targets at some ranges....I have had the half scale chickens reset themselves while shooting them....Yup put a center hit and watch it go down and come right back up, LOL boomerang targets...now that is a little nerve racking in a big match.

Gringo Grizzly · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:27:37 AM »

I've been shooting silhouettes since 1974 and haven't seen anything that looked just like this.
I've turned lots of animals completely around and once shot a v-notch section - that looked like a slice of pie about 6" long - out of a pig target at New Braunfels, Tx in 1984 - that didn't fall.

Since one leg is WAY off the stand it looks impossible!
A true "trick" pig maybe?

cslcAl · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2004, 09:25:09 AM »

We had this same thing happen at Consolidated Sportsmen's not once but twice in the same match. We were shooting Cowboy lever action; and two shooters did this on the same pig. Number 10 in the string. We obviously had a tilted rail. How do you not count it a hit in that situation?
Al

tirador · « **Reply #11 on:** August 10, 2004, 09:58:39 AM »

Tilted rails or stands will cause the pigs to do that every time, back in the early 1980's there was a HP silhouette range in Miramar, San Diego inside the naval station and one time while replacing the stands they neglected to support the front of the rail where the pigs stood causing the whole rail to lean forward. Before they got around to fixing it, if we wanted to get a good number of pigs we had to use our ram loads that consisted of .308's loaded with 200 grain bullets and a max charge of IMR 4064 other wise when hit the pigs would just turn but would not go down.

jbeckley · « **Reply #12 on:** August 10, 2004, 11:00:03 AM »

I have done it once. A couple of years back at the California State HP Match, I was shooting a .257 Roberts for my hunting rifle and I turned a pig like that.

Mongo1 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2004, 02:09:33 PM »

Any two legged animal that does that should be turned into a swinger. (Everybody needs more swingers.) I have seen it before and in each case there was something wrong with the animal.

One legged animals are different. You can turn them all kinds of funny ways and leave them looking back at you.

Jerry G · « **Reply #14 on:** August 14, 2004, 04:06:22 AM »

If the pad on the front leg is back a little, you can get all the pigs to do it. It has happened quite a few times on our old range before we got run off by the shotgun shooters.