Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Anyone use a 7.62x39 for hogs?

Pigs are like any other critter shootin them in the Ass or Gut Doesn't kill them, .223 will do the job with a well placed shot size does not matter pigs aren't hard to kill. Rio7

South Ranch Protein feeder, Pigs are hitting it hard, been holding off shootin Pigs because it's so damn hot,looks like i better get with it. Rio7

I have 3 friends in Oklahoma who use AKs to keep the hogs under control. All of them say the AK is the perfect rifle for their use because they are so resistant to abuse. They use dirt bikes and 4-wheelers and there is no 'babying' of the weapons. But mud dust rain ice snow......nothing matters to the Kalashnikovs --and they make a LOT of dead hogs every year. I asked about ammo and they told me they used soft points for a while but after a while they simply went to the Russian battle ammo and it killed them just fine.

Do you trap pigs??

In the middle photo, center, who does the ears and eyes belong to?

Looks like a doe

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[quote=Ranger99]Used to use an SKS some years back when I
had a place to go that wasn't restricted to
shotgun only.
I had tried some 150 SP , but my particular
gun wasn't all that accurate with them.
I found some 123gr HP's that were really
accurate and did a good job on the swine.
Not sure what they might cost now. IIRC the
ones I used were around $2.50 box of 20
The rifles were around $60.00-$70.00
You could drag one through the nastiest
briar filled river bottle and didn't have to
worry about malfunction or misfires.
They'd go boom every time

Like Ranger 99, I used an SKS and 123 gr bullets when hunting pigs down in the Fla. Everglades back in the 90's. The rifle and ammo worked really well.

I'm jealous of you folks who have hogs to hunt at anytime. We don't have them in my parts since but one can hope they get started here.

I prefer the 7.62x39's offspring. 6.5 Grendel

I have not but I gladly would!

I have killed hogs with a .243 and a .308, they were not particularly difficult to bring down.

I miss the days when one could get an SKS for $150!

Bought my first SKS for $69 bucks. Think it was about 1985 or 1986.

Be very careful of what you wish for
They'll tear up s**t faster than you can
fix it. Doesn't matter what. Fencing. Hay
meadow. Planted crops. Gamebirds and
nests. Fawns. Tree plantings. Etc. Etc.

If you have em close around your place
and your hay or weeds get too high, you'll
have to run slow or you might find a deep
hole they dug the hard way and possibly
turn your tractor over on top of you or
break an axle or tear up a wheel.

Yeah they're fun to shoot and such and
have around, unless you have to fix
things they tear up then you'll change
your mind about having them as guests

This times X 100

I killed a bunch with an SKS with various cheap steel cased ammo. Use a .223 mostly now unless I deer hunting and they are targets of opportunity. As others have said Hogs dont take much killing.