Mine is my 8x57 Mauser. It's really good pig medicine along with my .270. I load it with 175 grain SGKs at 2750 FPS. I personally love the 8x57 and think it does everything a .308 does and more. I don't know why it isn't more popular here in the U.S. If people are worried about bullet selection there's a whole Chit Slew of different bullet weights for anything you want to shoot with it. I would put its recoil right with the .308. My rifle is a sporterized Yugo 24/47 with the Military barrel still on it and a Buehler safety, the bolt expertly bent by my gun smith and the rear sight platform removed, a Timney Sporter Trigger and a new firing pin spring to help speed up lock time, drilled and tapped for scope mounts and sitting in a Boyd's Pepper Laminate Classic stock, with a 4-12x40 Redfield Revolution scope in Redfield type mounts on it. Makes for a great deer-pig rifle.
What's your favorite pig rifle look like?
Last edited by Filaman; 02/02/19.
