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Guy down here bought a fancy hog trapping apparatus as his retirement job. He rents it out to farmers, not sure what he charges or if he’s making money but he seems to enjoy it.

It’s a big suspended cage with a camera close by. Put a bunch of corn under the cage and the camera streams video to his phone. When a bunch of them get bunched up under it he just hits to go button and it drops on them. Then they go down and mow them down and haul them off. Dad’s buddy has been using it for a while and he’s killed scores of them with it. He’s a short guy so when he gets a bunch trapped he drives his loader tractor down to the trap. He gets in the bucket and has his son lift him up so he can shoot over the top of the fence. After they stop wiggling he loads them up in the bucket and hauled them to the dead pile.

Most likely Jaeger Pro system!

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Quality AR15 (colt, bcm, larue, kac, centurion) with your flavor of optics ( I'd go aimpoint).

Awesome.

It’s fun to have a pen full, hammer time!!!

Laid low a couple more this morning with the 222 and 55gr BTips.

What ever is close when you see a pig. Just shoot it. One thing about a pig, they have a large neck and head. Shoot for that with about anything and you will have pork.

My preference if I've got time to choose is my ratty old .270 that some people wantx57red. My closest shot was about 15 yards with my 8x57. Neck shot that severed the spine making it a bang flop DRT.

I don't have no where near the experience of some of the guys here, where they have pig problems. But I built an AR in 762x39 that i think is or would be a perfect hog gun.[img]https://i.imgur.com/FXSTcQk.jpg?1[/img]

You damn right it would be. That cartridge is capable of .30-30 performance. There's a lot of great pig cartridges and the .30-30 is probably near or at the top of the heap. The 7.62x39 is right there beside it. Great choice for pigs. And with an AR platform you've got a second and third shot right there. I'm fairly experienced with pigs and I would say you won't do any better than with that rig.

Thanks filaman! The same thought of 30-30 and quick follow up shots is why I did it.

I've been doing some pretty good work with a re-barreled Ruger Mini 30 in 6.8 SPC. The last 5 or 6 pigs I've killed were with 120 Pro Hunter bullets.

The 6.8 is sweet !
But I like cheap ammo

AK-47 is good and cheap ammo.

Exactly.


I also love my Rolling Block 45-70.

I have shot them with most anything but will drop 3 anecdotes here , one night two pards put 5 rounds of 00 buck into a boar at a changing distance of 5-10 yards , majority shoulder shots , pig kept running and I finished him with a 257 Weatherby . Upon skinning we found his “armor” to average 2 inches thick and contain the vast majority of that buckshot , he had gnarly bruises all over where hit but nothing fatal .

Another afternoon I was checking feeder and had a k frame 38 special with 158 gr hardcast moving 1100 FPS , feeder went off and I stood still in a thick thick patch of brush to see what happened . Aboutbthe time I gave up two medium boars burst through the brush on s sprint to the food , damn near right over me . I drew and stuck a bullet into one on the point of his shoulder . Crap was happening fast but I swear I could see the base of the bullet as he hauled on past . (Ok maybe it was the white blue hole in his black skin )

3rd , I shot one in a trap I’d set with the only thing in my hand . A 12 gauge with 2 ounce Turkey load. Down through the top of the skull . Surprisingly found the entire shot charge and wad bulging in his throat skin .


All oddities for sure , considering how many I’ve seen bowled over with 22 long rifles and magnums .

I shot a middling sized boar this past weekend. Just for kicks I cut a 2”x3” block out of the “shield” on his shoulder. It was well over an inch thick and hard like a piece of saddle leather. I think that is the reason they get a reputation for being tough, that shield can be rough on bullets.

For a "best" hog gun, I would think an AR in 224 Valkyrie is there when loaded with decent heavy bullets. Otherwise the same in 300 Ham'r.

The best pig rifle, hmmmmm depends on the circumstances. For a do it all gun I could get by with a light 308 or 7x57/7-08 using 150 or 140 grain Nosler Partions and topped with a 2x7 variable sporting a thick set of crosshairs. That said just thinking about the different cartridges I have used on feral hogs man I have killed a bunch of them. Before I had three discs replaced in my neck I was real fond of my 35 Whelen. Shot quit a few with various AR's in 5.56 and some were not recovered but by far the majority ended up findable even when using the 55 gr. FMJ from the Federal XM193 round. Before I started trying out every bore diameter under the sun my 30-06 worked perfectly!

I use whatever I have handy at the time. I've been killing them mostly during deer season, but did kill a couple off season last year. Remington 700 CDL 7mm/08 and 140 gr. Accubond does the trick. I've used my 6.5X55 and 130 gr. Swift Scirocco's, but I'm about to get serious with them and start carrying my AR all the time. Bushmaster .223 with 75 gr Speer Gold Dot and a full 30 round mag. They're starting to get out of hand.

A 30-06 with 180 grain Hornady SP will work.

Just about any good deer load, I think.