hog hunting
 

I got a question. I am moving to florida, and am going to do the hunter safety course in feb, and then book a hog hunt in march. I am also buying a 308 ar for deer hunting.

Is a 308 rifle to much for hogs?

It's been side time and time again, but a 308 will put anything in North American to sleep. Id opt for something larger on big bears, bison, and possibly moose though.

As for hogs, 308 will work beautifully. Nice short action round with 30cal hole.

I knew it would do the job, was little worried it might be over kill.

Can not wait to get down there and kill a hog, I saw one on some property we looked at buying here in SE indiana. IT dam near come up to me, I called the owner and he told me to kill it. MOM would not let me as she thought it was someones pet :throw:

308 will do the trick. Shoot all of them little piggies you can!

you can use a 22lr if they are in a trap..we use a 40S&W..we use a
22-250 for free range...my daughter uses a 223 ..they drop in their tracks

I went to Texas with some local folks hog "hunting". They used dogs to chase them down and we handcuffed them and put a pole through the handcuffed legs and carried them back to the truck alive. We then sold them to game farms that wanted them.

One of the guys also used two rifles on far away pigs....one a .243 and one a .300 Magnum. Long range was important to that hunt when we didn't want to let the dogs out.

From that experience I'd say the ideal hog gun might be a .270 Winchester.....not for the power....but for the range.

BTW....they make excellent breakfast sausage!

Range? how far we talkin, a 22-250 can be good fer say..1000 yards

Theres no such thing as overkill when it comes to hogs, ive used everything from 22lr to 45-70 on them

Let me get this right.....are you saying a .22-250 is a 1,000 yard gun for hogs?

thats guys, can not wait to lay one down and make some homemade bacon, or some sausage for mixing with some deer for summer sausage