7mm 08 is a great round. I use it to kill pigs quite a bit. Knocks em down. We catch lots of them in pens, so we get to try a lot of different cartridges on them. A 223 with a 62 grain Barnes will kill them as fast as a 7 mag.
Killing pigs in a pen is an art.
My hunting bud has it worked out pretty well. He uses a .17 HMR with FMJ ammo. He walks up close enough for a shot, not close enough to have them running around, usually 15 yds. or so. He pictures a line between their eyes, comes up about an inch from mid line. He lines up the target with an opening in the wire and fires. The .17 kills them instantly, their eyes are bugged out on stems, weird looking. He then lines up the next one.
No blood, no sqeeling, clean kills, no fuss. Hog killing about as slick as I've seen.
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