Mr. Boarman,

The 243 will definitely drop a boar of any size if you place the bullet in the right place. A lot of people won't believe this, but I grew up hunting wild hogs, before we had a deer season (1969 was our first deer season in the county where I grew up), we only had 22 rifles. Needless to say we was close, and the shot was behind the ear. I've killed them with 22 long rifles, 38/357's, 30-30, 30-06, and 243's. The worst shot is on the shoulder where they have what is called a shield. This sheild is devoloped when they take their tusk and cut a tree that produces sap (such as a pine tree), they will rub their shoulders in the sap, then they will roll and waller in mud, the mud gets in the sap and so on, helping creat a sheild. A callus will grow here as part of the shield.

My father hunted them with a 38 pistol or a 16 ga shotgun with 00 buckshot. He never owned a deer rifle of any type. Wild hog hunting is a big deal where I live and I have been on hunts with dogs when we would catch the hog. While the dogs have the hog busy we would slip in and catch him by the back legs and snatch the hogs feet out from under him. We would then tie his mouth shut and all legs. Now days the ones that hunt them and then realease them use handcuffs to secure his legs. Needless to say, we have had to climb a tree or two over the years when we lost our grip on the back legs. It's a ball , if you ever get the chance to hunt like this do it.

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