A.22 magnum is not a hog gun by any means. We are limitedto rimfire rifleson that place during small game season: There are a few hunterswho make it work. i limit my .22 magnum shots on hogs to 50 yards and pick my shots very carefully.If that were a 200 pound hog i would not have attempted that shot. Started hunting hogs with the .22 magnum about a year ago and have killed about a dozen hogs with it, most of them under 80 pounds. They were all killed with the CCI 40 grain FMJ bullet.All went down at the shot and some required a secondshot to end their suffering.

None of the hogsthati haveshot with a .22 LR or.22magnum gotaway. I shot a big sow that was looking at me. She was hit just to the left of her right eye with a .22 LR solid point.Almost losther: Chased the blood trail into a thicket and could not find her so i gave up. She was lying on the road bank dead as i was driving out. ino longer hunt hogs with a .22LR.

Usually try and get the bullet in the ear, behind the ear, on a line between the ear and eye, or in theeye.