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Sorry, for me it's just like the people who own Kimber 1911's or Glocks. They act like it's the greatet thing since sliced bread. I've never shot an elephant with a 458 Win Mag, but I know what it can do. Same with the 300BO. It's a lower end whitetail cartridge that can also double as a flatter trajectory 45acp. So what?

Now that is funny!

Except it does not have the frontal area of the 45.

there is one exception. if it's in the hands of a superhero and djones puts you right on top of the pigs, a 223 can be a marginal killer.

I have killed them with both 308 win and 5.56, Shooting them in the shoulder with either provided good bullets kills them for me. I dinna have a mask

I really like my blackout. It's been sub moa with almost every bullet I've tried with a little load development. My 125g NBT load at 2250 fps worked pretty well on pigs. I also shoot a lot of 110 vmax's at rabbits and varmints. They are pretty explosive at 2500 fps.

I need to get a can but I worked up a subsonic load just see what it would do and had 208 amax's doing 1050 fps and shooting 1" groups for 5 at 100 yards. Mine has a 16" 7.5 twist 5r barrel.

I like the round in part because I was able to send a few thousand old lake city brass to a guy and get them converted for about 7 cents each. They came back clean with the primer pocked swagged and ready to load.

I bet that's what people thought about the 8mm Kurtz and then the 7.62x39.

I like the looks of the old school mini.
Its so benign that its tactical...

Everyone knows you can't kill a pig with a 223



it's marginal at best? Mines not even a dpms.

What bullet? Barnes TSX?

55 gr Nosler Ballistic tips

Takes a tough bullet cause we all know how tough pigs are...

I know a guy that killed 17 with a 22 magnum when they moved in on his place

I had one run off when I shot him with my 44 spl pistol, finally figured out those noggins are tough but shoot em in the lungs and they die.

you're lucky he ran off. a texas hog would have killed you if you shot it in the head with a 44 spl. better step up to a dpms 308 before you get hurt.

I like living on the edge...

I killed my last one with a 36 grain Barnes Varmint grenade.