gotbuck: I certainly wasn't there and can't argue what happened to your hog that was shot between the eyes, but I find that amazing! I used to help a guy butcher farm hogs every fall, and I always shot them between the eyes with a .22 long rifle from my pistol at about 5 ft. They always went right down. I know that they probably didn't weigh much over 150 or so, but that seems like a pretty potent smack in the head to not do any more damage than to make him stagger.

IM jaybe

Nice Porker...yep fer sure you guys in Tx. get to have
all the fun...just kidding. But still a nice job with the
MLer. I'm planning on going down to Tenn. in the
spring for a wild boar hunt. I was thinking about
using a 300gr. T/C shockwave over 2-50gr. 777
pellets. That critter sure would look good with an
apple in his mouth and ready to go into the in ground
BBQ pit ummmm ummmm good. Again nice job.

243 and 45 cal B/P is all the wife and I ever use.we have taken several 100 porkers over the years.not that we are that good or can hit the sweet spot , but the wife or myself have never lost a hog with the 45 cal or the 243.

I shoot the 243 with 80 grain Winchester PSP , the wife uses 100 grai Winchester PSP. in the B/P we both use 100 grain pydrox pellets with 225 grain powerbelts.both are deadly on hogs.
the pic. of the wife this year with hers, (both over 150 lbs)the dropped on the spot.

we have hogs up the yeng yang,I take a lot with the 22 LR bayed up with the pups.

it will only be a few weeks till thats all we can go after.all the seasons are over next sunday.

The load I used to use was 90gr Pyrodex RS and a 245 gr Powerbelt. I know the bullet I'm using now is much heavier but after so many disappiontments, even with well placed shots, I will not be going back.
As far as licensing for hog hunting in Texas, the Texas Parks and Wildlife rule book states that no licence is required. From page 53 TPW Outdoor Annual,"A hunting license is not required to hunt the following: Depredating feral hogs, if a landowner or landowner's agent or lessee is taking feral hogs causing depredation on the landowners property."
So since I lease the property and the hogs are causing damage to the pastures by rooting, my guests and I are not required to be licensed. I do have one because I hunt so much more than hogs.

jaybe: I also thought I had enough power to take any hog but the guide said he witnessed a guy shoot a 300 ultra mag right through the area behind the ear and go through all the bones and reach the ribs and it did not exit as there was no blood trail! Two days later at the same stand he shot the same exact hog in theear and killed it. When they cleaned it, this is when they found out it was the same hog as the bullet was still inside the hog and the bullet entry was where the guy shot it before. These are wild fairchase hogs and not fenced in on the ranch and I did not believe they had skulls like rocks but they do. He saw cut one in half from one of the other guys hogs and nothing but bone. It was just awesome.

I'm going hog hunting in April with my muzzleloader with a bunch of guys from my forum. 100 gr of FFG 777 and a 260 gr Winchester Platinum tip is the load I'll use. This load has killed 7 deer for me since '03 and I'm curious to see how it'll do on a pig. Maybe I'll finally recover one. Every single bullet passed through from 20 yds to 120 yds.

The cool thing is when I went to Texas for deer they say hogs are like predators. You dont need a tag for them.

WOW!! that's surprising that the bonded shockwave did not penetrate the pig. That one I blasted with a roundball dropped like a rock. In fact my Dad laughed and said I could do all the shooting from then on. After it hit the ground we of course stuck it in the throat to bleed it out into a pail, but it never even tried to move after that roundball hit it.

I read your post on the hog hunt.. sounds like a good place to hunt.

I would have never beleived it myself, but I can assure you it was hit in the head. I guess next time I will have to wait until a better shot appears. That is easier said than done as the heart was beating fast in the moonlight and the excitement got to me.

The ones we went after were the big ones - Russian boars, I believe. They turned out to be amazingly tough. A 100 gr. Nosler Partition was unable to make it into the vitals on broadside shots. Finally tried head shots and were able to make that work. I have killed elk with this bullet, but it wasn't enough for a 400 lb. hog.