He's asking for a 10MM LOAD. Not his .30-06.

-Jake

Much like Oldtimr mentioned, I was walking back to my truck after sitting for Deer and saw a hog in a firing lane I had cut through the brush. I put it down with a frontal shot, a tad high, bullet went into the center neck just behind the skull. I poked the Hog in the eye with my rifle barrel, didn't appear to be breathing, that Hog popped back up again after maybe five minuted and headed into the high thick brush, I went in after it. Maybe thirty feet into the brush I come face to face with three decent sized Hogs, two 200 lbs.+ one a hundred pounds bigger than that. They decided to come back for their injured little sister. Rifle was pretty much useless, not enough room to aim and swing it in the brush, besides it was a bolt action. Pulled out my revolver, looked at those Hogs and said to myself, no not today. I had no great expectations of that pistol taking down one of those Hogs much less three. I backed out of there. Lessons learned, they don't always run away and always bring an extra pair of underpants.

Can a good sized Hog be brought down with a pistol, sure. Would I count on a pistol doing it with any regularity, not me. Now when I'm looking for a wounded Hog I take my semi auto slug gun.

For a back up gun, shoot FMJ's because you can't always pick the shot, go for maximum penetration and break bones.

I use a DiamondBack AR-15 with Hornady Full Boar .223 rounds..