best gun for hogs
#2
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Posts: 486
RE: best gun for hogs
You're sure to get a lot of responses on this one!
I prefer to use a large caliber rifle, because you never know if you'll be shooting at a dinner-size hog or one the size of a bulldozer, so I feel it's better to be over-gunned than under-gunned.
I have a Savage 110 in .30-06, and I shoot 180-grain soft-point ammunition. It's a combo I've used a lot, I'm comfortable with it,it is accurate for me, and...itknocks 'em down just fine.
I prefer to use a large caliber rifle, because you never know if you'll be shooting at a dinner-size hog or one the size of a bulldozer, so I feel it's better to be over-gunned than under-gunned.
I have a Savage 110 in .30-06, and I shoot 180-grain soft-point ammunition. It's a combo I've used a lot, I'm comfortable with it,it is accurate for me, and...itknocks 'em down just fine.
#3
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 42
RE: best gun for hogs
Any large caliber. I use a .308, but 7-08, through 300 mags are my recomendation. Mostly because large boars have a think pad protecting their shoulders and smaller caliber bullets won't make it through if you take a broadside shot. Personally, I am not much of a hog hunter, but rather a hog shooter (which means, I have access to a property with very large populations, so I pretty much harvest one, as opposed to hunting them), so I head shoot everything. If this is your situation, anything from 223 up will do. I usethe .308 because that is my carry gun on the ranch.
#4
RE: best gun for hogs
Anyone from .243 (100gr) to .30-30 (150gr)......Gosh guys, if you ever hunted Hogs you will know you don't need a Bazooka to hunt Hogs!
30-30 vs Boar
30-30 vs Boar
#9
RE: best gun for hogs
But most recently I've been using my AR-15 in .223 to bust 'em at night with my nightvision.
#10
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 24
RE: best gun for hogs
I use a .22, and that's not a typo. If I was going to be shooting a big boar I might use a .223 or .243 but a .22 right behind the ear on a smaller hog will do the trick. I friend of mine has killed a few 150-200 lb. hogs with his .22 (lung shot)and his little sister using a .243 killed 300+lb. gilt. I wouldn't use a .22 if I was trophy hunting for boars but for sals and population control, it works fine. If I was hunting for trophy boars at a place I've never been, I would probably use my 7-08