Model12boy
Well-Known Member
Ruger m77 77/44 240 grain federal
-
If you are being asked to change your password, and unsure how to do it, follow these instructions. Click here
Favorite gun and cartridge for hogs?
- Thread starter Rick_W
- Start date
Help Support Long Range Hunting Forum
dougduey
Well-Known Member
I use a 6.5 Grendel on an AR platform with a thermal scope. Lethal combination and very fun
basinman
Well-Known Member
If I am in the swamp I use an AR 15, 18" barrel in 450 Bushmaster with 250 grain Hornady. In Texas I use an AR 15, 20" barrel in 6.5 Grendel with 123 grain Hornady SST moving at 2545 fps.
WestTexasHunter
Active Member
The hornady sub-x is all I use in my blackout anymore. 8.5" SBR TBAC suppressor. Took two 60 pounders at 100 this past season to see how it would perform. We went on to take a Whitetail doe and a black buck at 120 later in the year. All heart/lung and DRT except one of the pigs that made it to the edge of the worn ground around the feeder. Happy with the performance but it's more of a novelty for me. If we're hunting the draws from the Mesa tops my favorite hog medicine is suppressed 300 wm with 200gr ELDX. If we are stalking up on stock tanks and jump shooting herds I use 10.5" 6.5 Grendel 123 gr sst these days. That being said I have killed more hogs with a 7.62x39 than anything else. Back in the college days we'd give'em hell with SKS's and the cheapest soft nose ammo we could find at academy. They ran pretty reliably if we only put 20 rounds in the magazine
. We certainly ate well!
Pacecount
Well-Known Member
375 H&H w 300 gr TSX
Matt Tatum
Well-Known Member
A buddy and I try to help some local farmers and keep the pigs off their place. We have shot them with just about everything. When we get into the big herds the 5.56 ar works best for us. 70gr Barnes x or that 65gr game king and they go down pretty fast.
Dr. Mac
Well-Known Member
We've got 300lb Russian boars here in upstate SC. I hunt at night with thermal ATN. I use 6.5 Creedmoor with 22 inch barrel, with 140 gr Swift A-frame running at 2600 FPS with H4350 or RL 17. Neck or shoulder shots at 150 yds is a bang/flop every time. Never recovered a bullet.
I use a 356 Winchester . 35 Cal 220 Speer fp. 36.5 g tac with magnum primer for 2450 fps. ( essentially a 358) Looks like a baseball exited. Never had one take another step. Little lever gun sure is easier to carry than an ar10. I like to find them by sound then stalk them.
amadjuster
Active Member
I would think an old Remington Model 8 or 81 in a .35 Remington would be a marvelous hog gun. Or a Ruger .44 Carbine.
This
I've killed hogs with 17gr vmax 17hmr shot behind the shoulder (drt) and plenty with 22lr. Those were bc it's what was in my hands when they stepped out.
I've killed most (100+) with .223 70gr ttsx in a 14.5" AR with aimpoint micro. It's my go to setup and what I usually have in hand when out and about on my place.
My newest setup is a suppressed 6.5 Grendel SBR running a 1-8 lpvo or aimpoint micro depending on setting. The Grendel is good medicine for deer and hogs.
Huggy
Well-Known Member
Maaaaan!! You've killed more pigs than I've eaten in bacon or other pork products. Yeah, not the same-same but you catch my drift.
Based on just the little I've read here in the subject, it would surely seem that there is an overabundance of porkers ransacking parts of the country and those areas are in need of serious culling of those critters.
If I may ask, and mainly my question is aimed at (no pun intended) the more prolific hog hunters out there, but WTH are you doing with all those animals?!? Do you actually harvest them for personal use or donate them to various charities or......?
I'm NOT being judgmental, trust me. I'm honestly JEALOUS that you lucky SOB's get to hunt that many animals.
I'm no longer able to hunt myself, short of exterminating prairie dog towns from one place due to physical limitations and disabilities from the military, but, BOY HOWDY! I'd sure like to help some rancher or farmer with their eradication needs.
Yeah, color me jealous, Fellers.
Overnout
sea2summit
Well-Known Member
I have killed a fair number with .223 ARs with no issue (children still use theirs when they come). My go to for the last several years is a 7.62 AR though, I've used a lot of M80 but I reload 168's for the same or cheaper so use those most of the time.
I take headshots whenever possible because I'm feeding a family of six but on occasion they are moving and this is the typical recovery from body shots and 168s (two separate animals), never lost one that I've hit. I usually have complete penetration with some of the bullet but obviously match bullets are going to come apart fast so there is a shrapnel trail through the cavity.
I take headshots whenever possible because I'm feeding a family of six but on occasion they are moving and this is the typical recovery from body shots and 168s (two separate animals), never lost one that I've hit. I usually have complete penetration with some of the bullet but obviously match bullets are going to come apart fast so there is a shrapnel trail through the cavity.
sea2summit
Well-Known Member
I've done eradication hunts and a heli hunt (which everyone needs to do at least once) but we eat any I harvest outside of that usually half a dozen or more per year. They are vermin that need to be destroyed...but they are also quite tasty.
Huggy
Well-Known Member
Daaaayum! That round will kill even their dreams and Angel's, won't it?!? LOL
