Caliber selection
04-23-2007, 08:13 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 3,224
RE: Caliber selection
The largest hog we killed was shot with a .223 in the ear though I've also seen the bullets bounce of their skulls if you don't hit them right. We hunt them at night with a light and you have to snap shoot so a body shot is the easiest target. So we always use a large caliber we can get through the shield. I've shot one 350lb boar with a .35 remington and it didn't penetrate all the way through the shield from 65 yards. It stopped underneath the skin on the far side so it takes a large gun if you are going to shoot through the shield on a large boar. Right now I shoot a .450 Marlin and it will drop them regardless where I shoot them. So once the light comes on and I line upon the shoulder we shoot. It will put a large hole through them even through the shield.
04-26-2007, 04:27 PM
#26
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Bossier City, LA
Posts: 159
RE: Caliber selection
I don't agree with your statement that hogs are soft. I shot a hog this past weekend with 130 grain Barnes X bullets from my 270 and it took 3 shots to put her down. Obviously you've never tried to shoot through the shield of a big boar.
04-27-2007, 10:17 AM
#28
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 122
RE: Caliber selection
My son shot one with 6.5X55 140grGame Kingfrom about 40yrds. Hit it dead center just behind the shoulder and left an exit wound about 2in wide. It ran 30yrds and dropped. I think its just like any other animal, shot placement is the key to quick ethical kill.
04-27-2007, 02:25 PM
#29
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comance county, OK
Posts: 11,408
RE: Caliber selection
i've killed dozens of hogs, mostly with muzzleloaders. Anyone who has to shoot a hog multiple times with a high power rifle and a good bullet ain't hitting the hog in the right place. Biggestwildboari ever killed pegged the 350 pound scales when field dressed. Shot that hog through both shoulders with a 300 grain XTP Magnumbullet and 100 grains of Pyrodex RS from my old CVAStaghorn. The exit hole wasover one inch. The hog just fell over stone dead. Most of my hogs have been bang flops, including a sow shot at 190 long paces with my .50 Encore.
05-02-2007, 09:39 AM
#30
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 813
RE: Caliber selection
ORIGINAL: wis_bow_huntr
Im thinking a deer riflew may be a little over kill on a hog. Im in the process of planning a weekend hunt in the Gays Mills, Wi area in two weeks from today. My buddy will be carrying his bow, I will be carrying my Taurus .44 Mag revolver. Being from a farm half my life, I know this...pigs are soft. A .44 would be just right without the over kill of a rifle like a .35 which is an excellent rifle. I have a Remington Model760 .35.
Im thinking a deer riflew may be a little over kill on a hog. Im in the process of planning a weekend hunt in the Gays Mills, Wi area in two weeks from today. My buddy will be carrying his bow, I will be carrying my Taurus .44 Mag revolver. Being from a farm half my life, I know this...pigs are soft. A .44 would be just right without the over kill of a rifle like a .35 which is an excellent rifle. I have a Remington Model760 .35.