Favorite gun and cartridge for hogs?

[lawtoona]

anything but a 223. hitem w a 223 and theyre gone gone gone

Not if you shoot them in the head head head!!!

 

[kpwelder]

6.5 creedmoor with 140 grain vld drops them for sure

 

[Kmccord]

Since I hunt with a Digital night scope the shots are about 100yds, I use my AR15 in 223 behind the ear in the neck, watch them drop in there tracks, next build will be a 6.5 Grendel.

 

[Deleted member 48126]

Since I hunt with a Digital night scope the shots are about 100yds, I use my AR15 in 223 behind the ear in the neck, watch them drop in there tracks, next build will be a 6.5 Grendel.

Better shot than me!!

 

[Kmccord]

Better shot than me!!

Caldwell Field pod is the only way I can get steady enough to put it behind the ear.

 

[Wild_Bill]

Hi guys,
I have shot and seen a lot of feral pigs shot in Australia.
Caliber of firearms will come down to how you are hunting or conducting pest management.
I have seen pigs shot with 223s and it can be humane but generally a 224 cal is just to small. Honestly a 243 with a heavily constructed 100gr projectile should be considered have minimum especially of hunting on foot with large boars. There was a post circulating this week of a bulletproof boar the guy here in Australia shot with a 223 and a 55gr BlitzKing it was body shot and guess what just blew up. This was apparently a professional shooter. They should know better.
I have used 357s 44s 243s 6.5x55, 7mm08, 308, 7.62x39, 270, 4570,12ga with buck shot or solids. 375H&H, 300 win mag 7mm rem mag and others in bolt guns and semi autos back when we were allowed to have them.
The biggest thing is a heavy projectile solidly constructed even hard cast in big bore lever guns work well.
If you are shooting large boars and they get injured they get angry and will charge you so you should have a firearm capable of penetrating them through the front of the head or through there shoulders into the vitals.
If shooting at night from a vehicle you can get away with a smaller caliber but ask yourself is a slightly misplaced shot going to still be humane irrespective if they are feral animals or now we need to be professional and humane in our approach to stop any anti shooters getting any momentum from potential wounding of animals.

 

[Ed Bryant]

have 45-70 hornady 325gr ftx 2gr short of Max trail boss ??

went to range at 100yards bench rest 15 rounds nothing hit paper,17.5gr,18gr,19.5gr max trail boss either trailboss not for 45-70,or my henry dose not liike it.. have loaded up some 350gr fp hornady interlock,45,44,43gr h4198 will try them this week

 

[MkJose]

I have to admit, judging by performance on the animals, the 30-06 gets my nod as favorite. Will I ever use anything else? Heck yeah. In fact, the 8x57 did a mighty impressive job along with the .270. I actually believe with hogs it's 90% Shot placement, like most other things. However I have to admit that the 30-06 really impressed me more than any of them seeing that it penetrated the body length wise from butt to brisket. Yeah it was a Texas Heart Shot, but it's all I had and also the landowner doesn't care how pretty the shot is, as long as the hog is down.

 

[Oxobrianne 272]

Lever action .45-70

 

[Oxobrianne 272]

A friend of mine swears by his 45/70 Marlin for driven wild boar when he hunts in Croatia.

 

[jwhjwh54]

6.8 spcII SBR with pulsar apex or Swarovski z3 depending on day or night has gotten me a whole bunch of hogs this year

 

[sheepdawg]

I've killed lots of hogs with a 223 Rem and 77gr SMKs running around 2,730 fps from various AR-15s and a couple of bolt guns. Head shots only with the 223 Rems.

Killed a few with my push feed Winchester M70 Featherweight 243 Win and 100gr CoreLokt. Killed a few with my bolt action 308s; Remington 700s and one 788, shooting 180gr CoreLokt. Killed some with various bolt actions in 7mm-08 with 162gr Amax, 7mm Rem Mag with 168gr VLD, 300 Win Mag with 180gr in Barnes TSX, TTSX and Rem CoreLokt, 215gr and 230gr Berger Hybrids but, by far killed the most with my favorites; Winchester M70 Classic 30-06, several of my Remington 700 30-06s and a Remington 7600 pump. In 30-06 I used FGMM 168gr SMKs, Remington 180gr CoreLokt, Barnes 180gr TTSX, Berger 215gr Hybrids and Hornady 212gr ELD-X.

I've killed a couple with my Winchester M70 Classic 375 H&H Mag but, don't remember if I used the Barnes 300gr TSX or the 350gr TSX. I've used 270 Win, 25-06, 6mm Rem, 30-30 and 35 Rem as well.

There were other rifles and cartridges I've used over the years, even killed a fair number with 12ga slugs and various sizes of buckshot... just can't remember them all.

I like this post and believe you. It made me smile because it follows the ol addage my an old timer I looked up to. He said, "shot placement is everything. The bullet debate is just a good time. Use what you got".

 

[jwhjwh54]

Ugh if I could just use what I've got then I'd save so much $$$

 

[NeedForSpeed]

Ugh if I could just use what I've got then I'd save so much $$$

The point is they all work with the right shot placement.