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Killing and stopping are 2 separate things.
If your looking to eradicate them and run them away...223 in the guts will do solidly.
If your hunting them for food and you want them down quick, I'd opt for something else. Something that doesn't nessesitate a CNS hit to incapacitate.
Consider this, a hog at 35mph can travel over 1000 yards in just under 1 minute.
That's a long way to track.
This pig was hit at 40 yards , in the spine (see behind the ear) and he still needed a follow up shot to stop him from trying to get dad.
That's with a .308, 165 soft point.
Hr went down then started getting back up when the old man got about 6 feet from him.