RE: If you were setting up a dedicated wild boar rifle, what would it be?
Don't spend a bunch of money on a special hog/black bear gun. Your Marlin in .35 Remington will do just fine: Just put a scope on it.Spend the money instead on gas to go hog hunting. Central NY is a beautiful place as is western NY: Glad they got a few hogs there. Sure do hope that the NY DEC does not lethogs get out of control like many other states did. SW OK is over run with hogs and they are doing a lot of environmental and crop damage as well as adversly impacting the deer population.
Hog hunting ishighly addictive. Get them hogs!!!!