I happen to be partial to pistols, My best hog YET, was a 315 lb boar taken with a 10mm wyoming, and I was actually just fishing the 10 was my ccw but that little Hydra-Shock dropped that lil ol piggy like a ton of bricks. When Im actually looking for hogs I like a 7mm-08 lone eagle although I have used a 375 H&H ruger #1once or twice just out of spite