7mm Rem. Mag.

Me too! But don't sell the old '06 short.! With premium 200 or 220 grain bullets, the .30/'06 has made 1-shot kills on game up to and including elephant. It will sure kill any hog that ever walked!

Man, that's a lot of pork! .30-06, .308, .270, .280, 7mm-08. Of course, I'm Magnum-Recoil averse. If you're not, the 7 Mag would be agood choice. Something relatively new to check out that would work really well, IMHO, is the .338 Federal.

The .338 Federal, while a good cartridge, is only availible at this moment in the expensive Sako. I wish H&R would chamber the .338 Federal in their Handi Rifles.

You need not be worried. The 270 or 30/06 will handle any hog in the US and any whitetail or smaller in the US. Even larger animals like Elk, but at shorter distances than the Whitetail. We shoot hogs with 44Mag rifles and 30/30...Very effective...I would select bonded or partition ammo for hogs or thicker skinned game

By asking the same question on this forum, I was steered toward the .270. Shot it for a year, got a deer and an elk,and just had to "upgrade" to .300 win mag, then to .300 wsm. Now I'm going back to the .270 because I just shoot it better finallyconvinced myself what they all tried to tell me -that shot placement is everything.

Plus I'm old.

You're right about the value of this forum - It's great. I can tell you your question has been asked over and over in this and the hunting forums, so you might want to do a search. (Not that anybody minds answering it again and again, from the looks of the answers)

go with the 7mm Rem Mag.

i was at a ranch in west texas where a guy shot a 590-600 pound hog(don't remember the exact number as it was years ago). he put it down in it's tracks with 1 shot. take a guess what the beast of a gun he was shooting was.

a 25-06. personally, my favorite deer/hog gun of all time is a 243. i now shoot a 270 because we gave the 243 to one of my stepsisters. i would chose the 30-06 or 270. one thing you should concern yourself with is the fit of the gun. for instance, i have shot all kinds of guns up to a 7mag and my 270 recoils worse than any of them. why? because it doesn't fit me very well. but, i don't get to hunt that much so i've never had a need to get it fixed. now, i am out of college and starting to hunt regularly again. i am thinking of either buying a new 270 or buying a stock that fits me better.

so take it for what it's worth.