I've taken one with a S&W 629 and another with a 35 Remington contender. Both worked very good. I have another hog hunt planned for September. This time it will be with my 45 colt. 😀
Lucky you. Those creatures are great to hunt and mighty good eatin' too. When I got home with the second one I shot, I stuffed one of the hams in the smoker. Needless to say, only a few bones were left. Not much else
Savage 110 .30-06 with my 165gr Speer Hot Core hand loads. I load them over Varget to an avg velocity of 2833fps . The Savage will put three shots into 1.5 inches at 200yds. If I have to chase them into thick stuff I carry my 7.5" stainless Redhawk .44 magnum. I load the Magtech 240gr JSP over Blue Dot for great accuracy and an average velocity of 1411fps. Both guns/loads are pig killers!
Do it like Jerry Dorminy (passed in 2006) did when he hunted hogs. Jump out of a tree on top of the hog with a Bowie knife. A hunting magazine wrote an article about this years ago but I can't remember the name of it.
For rifle I like using the 3006. It’s always enough gun. On smaller pigs it goes right through and is big enough for the 360-400+ pounder you run across every once in awhile. 308 is fine too, but I have come back to the 3006 after years of trying other things in my decades of hunting.
I have used 45 Colt+p, 45 ACP, 44 Magnum, 10 MM and 454 Casul. If it is close enough I go for a headshot. I like my Glock 20 if it is backing up the rifle, my first field gun was a 70+ year old 1911, it works. If I am just carrying a handgun to hunt pigs I have a 6” Smith 29 or a 7.5” 454 loaded down a bit to 250 grains moving at 1500ish.
I would just stick with the 44 mag if I could only chose one Hunting pistol. Pigs brains are pretty tiny and I like the 1000+ ft lbs I can deliver with the 29. It have the advantage of double action if you get in a pinch and can deliver precise accuracy with the single action pull.
it's great to know I'm not the only weirdo out there that thinks hunting hog is as good as hunting anything. here in Florida their trashing farm land everywhere.
I'm fond of the 44 mag. I have a Ruger Deerfield (Love that rifle) and a 7.5 in. Redhawk. Never have shot a hog but they are my go to whitetail firearms in Indiana...
I'm not the guy who would go out with his AR-15/MSR expecting to take down a pig and emptying the magazine to do it. Nor am I the guy to use a handgun on a pig.
I would prefer any rifle from a 243 Win upwards. I do know of a 200+ lb. hog taken with a single well placed shot from a .223 Rem, 40 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip (lead free) bullet, but I wouldn't recommend it. Personally, I use a 7 mm-08 Rem and my hunting partner uses a 308 Win. When I put them down I expect them to stay down...
I'm not the guy who would go out with his AR-15/MSR expecting to take down a pig and emptying the magazine to do it. Nor am I the guy to use a handgun on a pig.
I would prefer any rifle from a 243 Win upwards. I do know of a 200+ lb. hog taken with a single well placed shot from a .223 Rem, 40 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip (lead free) bullet, but I wouldn't recommend it. Personally, I use a 7 mm-08 Rem and my hunting partner uses a 308 Win. When I put them down I expect them to stay down...
My 25-45 sharps with the 117 grain interlock reload does well. The 450 bushmaster with a 250 deep curl bonded reload does well too. Both are on AR platforms. I plan to try my 338 federal which has more kinetic energy than my 7mm rem mag out to 400 yards.
30/30,"308, 30.06 270win all good on feral hogs.
Im actually gearing up for some coyote fun in the near future.
My 25-45 sharps with the 117 grain interlock reload does well. The 450 bushmaster with a 250 deep curl bonded reload does well too. Both are on AR platforms. I plan to try my 338 federal which has more kinetic energy than my 7mm rem mag out to 400 yards.
30/30,"308, 30.06 270win all good on feral hogs.
Im actually gearing up for some coyote fun in the near future.
Never hunted them but have been hunted by a feral hog at Ft. Polk, LA. Big old thing with piglets.
She tore the fender off a civilian motor pool jeep. Had to do a damage report, the M.P. who took it said it happens sometimes.
Anything that can eat a jeep, in my opinion, needs big bullets and back up!
.308 Savage bolt action and the cheapest 147-150gr ammunition I can find. Usually Wolf steel case fmj. Have exclusive access to some river bottom farmland with Hampshire/Duroc crosses that have been running wild for the last 85-90 years. Park the truck, set the bipod and wait. I drop them, landowner processes them and gives away the meat. The true wild hogs here might go 100#. Scrawny, mean, stinky... I usually get them with the truck at night or early morning on my commute. Got a whole litter last year...
Your choice of caliber depends should depend on how you hunt them. I have hunted out of a box blind over bait and know a guy that uses a .22 mag and takes head shots from the blind. If your moving thru the brush you want something with more om-pah to it.
Hogs are a scourge where I live. They root up my food plots and road ditches all the time. As to what gun to use, whatever I have handy. I’ve killed them with a bow, a .223, a 22-250, a 7.62x39, a 40 S&W, a.45 ACP, a 6.8 SPC, a .450 Bushmaster, a 7-08, and a .280 Rem. I’ve even killed them in a corral trap with a .22 mag. My “hog gun” is the 6.8 SPC though, one high shoulder shot with a 115 gr. Federal Fusion and they are toast ! They will all die with one shot from almost any gun if you ear hole them. If I’m deer hunting and a hog shows, it’s a hog hunt !
My son uses a 300 Blackout with a suppressor quite successfully.
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