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I think the big bores and pigs is what brought about the word "overkill"!

Need a 700 nitro express

Same idea as the zombie ammo you see everywhere

Creedmoor with 120 Barnes will almost take a pigs head off.

lol...yeah, I'm stockpiling a bunch of them in case we are ever overrun here in Central LA with the boogers.

You can’t have too much ammo. Maybe Zombie is code for something else?😎😎😎😎😎

Put this pen up yesterday, was surprised to catch three this morning

hanco,

That looks like the NICE hog trap that our contracted trapper uses at our family farm. = She catches them, transports the hogs to OK, feeds them corn, sends them to the packing house & sends us "our cut" every 90 days. - When Mother was still alive, she called it: My Christmas Fund.

My choice for pigs is one of my Model 760 pumps, either in .300SAV or (more often, as it's behind the PU seat) a .30.06. = I use 180 grain JSP for everything in caliber .30.

ADDENDA: The biggest boar ever taken on our farm was by my (then 15YO) nephew, using his great-grandfather's single-barrel 12-gauge & 00 Buckshot, at about 40M. = GYD.

yours, tex

Did a pig and a few javelina with the 458. Worked fine. But I still say folks generally go over gunned for pigs due to paranoia of written word. They and deer are not hard to kill.

I don't think I've EVER shot a trapped pig with anything more than a 22lr at the most and have shot a LOT with a ruger MK2 bull barrel and cci mini mag hps...out to around 50 yards or so with irons, lung shots don't last long... of course I don't shoot the lungs on much more than 100-125 pound pigs.

Just think if you'd have centered the brain pan in and out, could have been pretty impressive not much of top of head I suspect. Wonder what that would do at about C1/C2. broadside. Might do a bit of damage.

Same here, was well over 50 marks on a knife before I decided keeping count was stupid. Along with about 5-6 others for years on a bow lease that probably had about the same number. Except my wife who didn't like shooting them for some reason. LOL rest of us would almost have rather seen a pig than a deer.

That's old school right there! My daddy shot a 760 30/06 with 180 gr. for deer all the years he deer hunted. He wouldn't have dreamed of shooting a 165 gr. and God forbid if he had ever bought a 150 gr. round...lol. I now have the 1st 760 he bought in the 60's. It's beat up pretty good but a million dollars wouldn't take it off my hands.

Eddie

Ruger77Shooter,

Inasmuch as I'm now 71YO, I fit the description of "old school".
Further, using only 180 grain JSP means that I don't have to keep re-sighting in my favorite rifles. - Imo, either a .300SAV or .30-06 with 180 grain JHP is adequate for any game in the Americas, with the possible exception of the largest bears, out to 250-300M.

yours, tex

I use an AR most of the time. Thirty round magazines are nice.

^^^THIS^^^

300 Blackout 110gr Barnes TTSX

Poor damn pigs! They are misunderstood!

Pigs have little imagination and are all named "The Road". Pig hunters are all named Jack.

I have s grandson named Jack. He will be shooting pigs before long!

Killed 11 last Friday. Nine were females.