Yup, and Id reckon its a bit much for 120 ft.lbs of energy wouldn't you?

Yall act like we are talking about hunting hogs with a .50 BMG. We aren't. We are talking about half the energy of a .308, and lots of folks up here hunt them with that. There is nothing super impressive about the .44 mag.

M92 i agree with you, the 44 mag in a marlin or winchester 94 is perfect for hogs in heavy thicket, also 30-30...and 357 is marginal.

Yes, shoot placment is the key BUT if every time a hunter have a perfect shoot everything you would need from squirrel to elk is .22

A 44 mag with the right bullet and shot placement will kill anything in North America. Check out Garrett Cartridges on the web, you will se what they are capable of.

Having grown up in So. Tx and shot hogs with everything from 22LR to .338 Lapua and .300 Win Mag to bow and arrow. I have have to agree that placement IS everything. I have shot well over 500 hogs all over the US and carried a Ruger 3 Screw 44 mag as back up with 250 grn Keith Style GCLSWC over 2400 powder and they CRUSHED hogs!! More times than not, they blew threw them.
I now have a 460 S & W and am planning on a hunt in So. OK in Feb and will take some pork then and my son will be shooting my .460 and 7mmBR pistols.

Shot one not long ago with a 45 acp. Ive killed tuns with a 44 mag. Hell, ive shot them with 22 longs. Its all in shot placement.

That 250 hard handcast is a beast on those porkers!!!!! End to end or side to side, its a critter getter!!!! Not too good for deer for they don't open well on thin skinned critters unless you hit bone.
As for the 44 not being all that big, not compared to the 460, 480 or 500. It is to many people who do not shoot pistols regularly.

Since I live in KS, we don't have hogs locally, so I'm not much of a hog hunter, but I've been on a few trips while visiting friends/family. I have hunted hogs in both regions in question, in TX and OK, and in NC and SC. On my SC trip, I used a .44mag Ruger Super Blackhawk, in NC I used a .223rem AR-15. In OK I used the same .223, and in TX I used a .30-06 Ruger M77... Granted I've killed less than a dozen hogs in my life, but in each trip I HAVE made, I've never used dogs, and I've never had a hog argue with the .44mag or .223.

Moral of the story, the .44mag has PLENTY of punch out to at least 100yrds on hogs. I've used that .44mag Ruger Super Blackhawk for over a decade on Kansas whitetail deer, and my experience on hogs with the .44mag was very similar to my whitetails, your accuracy is the limiting factor, not the power. A rifle is a different story, since it offers improved velocity/energy, and improved accuracy, but it will have PLENTY of punch for hogs, without a doubt.

I didn't read through all the post on this topic as the ones I did read are about the same as I hear everywhere else when this question is asked.
To start with, the 44 mag is plenty gun for the job. So many people comment on shot placement and they are right, but one is not always given the chance at the perfect shot behind the ear and even less when you are using iron sights. There are many different shots that will kill a hog. Your 44 will kill large full sized hogs with shot placement to the vitals, you may have to track it a bit but that's hunting. Heart and lungs, it will die with a 44 mag.
Good hunting

check out buffalo bore bullets. I use them in my 45 long colt lever gun for everthing from turkey to hogs, and have had great succes with them. I also have used them in several pistols too.