Over the past few months i've reduced the hog population at our deer lease. To accomplish that it was necessary to resort to cartridge guns. Killed a bunch of wild hogs, mostly pigs, with a rifled barrel pump shotgun and rifles.


A very big boar is coming to a feeder every evening. That hog has to be killed with a muzzleloader. Today I took the .50 caliber Encore along with my CZ 527 in .223.


Just after 8 pm in comes a boar that weighed about 160 pounds. The hog refused to turn broadside so I took a quartering away shot.


Range: About 80 yards
Gun: .50 Encore
Scope: 4X Zeiss Conquest
Bullet: 300 grain .452 XTP magnum
Powder: 140 grains of Black MZ
Primer: Winchester shotgun


At the shot the boar went down and kicked wildly. Was about to do a coup de gras with the .223 when he stopped kicking. The bullet exited under the boars chin.

Did ya gut him out to see how well that XTP performed on it's innerds? Granted yes the hog went down but I like to hear how well the bullet performed as far as internal damage and such. 140 grains of Black MZ under a 300 grain bullet sounds like one shoulder thumping load,,,for BOTH yours AND the target shoulders

Congrats! Nice shot

The bullet shredded the lungs. That gun is heavy and the recoil don't bother me.

nice shooting there. You must have a freezer full of Pork Chops and such. I bet that is good grilling meat.

Nice shot. Those XTP-Mags are good bullets.

Good job on reducing the population.