I don’t claim to be a expert on hogs, I don’t shoot boars over about 100 pounds because I don’t think they make good table fair. With that being said you cant beat a 300 pound sow out of an orange grove. I have killed and eaten three this year and that’s about my average for the last 30 years so you do the math. I have a WMA 15 miles from the house with a lot of hogs that you could hunt during small game season but you weren’t allowed to have a center fire rifle. Those hogs must have been sissys because I sure have killed a lot of them with a 22 Magnum. I am not saying that given an option I wouldn’t have had a larger rifle but I have never seen a bullet proof hog and I would count on shot placement over caliber everyday.