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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?
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I've reconsidered and think I need to be more specific. It's one of the following: .22 short T/C Contender (personal favorite) .22 LR 10/22 ..22 WMR 9422M .22 K-Hornet .25-20 Win Marlin 94 .30-30 Model 94 .30 Sneezer .38 Special S&W .44 Mag RSB .50 T/C Renegade .410 w/slugs 20 ga w/#3 buck or slugs (the Ithaca 37 w/o the mag plug is an effective mass murderer with buckshot) 12 ga w/slugs (I love the sound of whop in the morning. 7.62 GE M134 2.75" FFAR w/ flechettes or HE If you use HE there won't be much left for the mess kit. http://www.centaursinvietnam.org/History/ihistoryEqOrdRocket.html
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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I try not to shoot at my exwife!
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FN commercial 1898 with 6x42 pentex 7x57 150Partition @2700fps, I'm going to try some 175 RNs @2400fps. capt david
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If you are a hunter, and farther than that, get closer!
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I've reconsidered and think I need to be more specific. It's one of the following: .22 short T/C Contender (personal favorite) .22 LR 10/22 ..22 WMR 9422M .22 K-Hornet .25-20 Win Marlin 94 .30-30 Model 94 .30 Sneezer .38 Special S&W .44 Mag RSB .50 T/C Renegade .410 w/slugs 20 ga w/#3 buck or slugs (the Ithaca 37 w/o the mag plug is an effective mass murderer with buckshot) 12 ga w/slugs (I love the sound of whop in the morning. 7.62 GE M134 2.75" FFAR w/ flechettes or HE If you use HE there won't be much left for the mess kit. http://www.centaursinvietnam.org/History/ihistoryEqOrdRocket.htmlThe only thing you left out was the front bumper of your pickup.
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AR-10 .308 16" carbine with 125gr accubonds and an Aimpoint patrol
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My Ruger Ultralight in .308. Nice and light as pig hunting is usually up close well under 100 yards so the rifle is always in my hands. It wears a 2-7x33 Loopy which is ideal and shoots either 130gn Speer HPs or 150gn Hornady SPs.
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This .54 ^ And these two below, .40 and .62
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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You need to shoot an elk with the 62. Fine rigs there.
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Mostly AR’s when I kill them in traps or round pens. When deer hunting, it’s whatever I’m using. I plan on getting an American 22-250 with a 1 in 8 twist barrel for off season hunting.
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I've reconsidered and think I need to be more specific. It's one of the following: .22 short T/C Contender (personal favorite) .22 LR 10/22 ..22 WMR 9422M .22 K-Hornet .25-20 Win Marlin 94 .30-30 Model 94 .30 Sneezer .38 Special S&W .44 Mag RSB .50 T/C Renegade .410 w/slugs 20 ga w/#3 buck or slugs (the Ithaca 37 w/o the mag plug is an effective mass murderer with buckshot) 12 ga w/slugs (I love the sound of whop in the morning. 7.62 GE M134 2.75" FFAR w/ flechettes or HE If you use HE there won't be much left for the mess kit. http://www.centaursinvietnam.org/History/ihistoryEqOrdRocket.htmlThe only thing you left out was the front bumper of your pickup. Only use that on Smart Cars.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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My meat gun is still a win m70 variant in 3006, Leupold VZ 2 3-9x 40 with fed 150 grain SP (3006a) for feral pigs, feral goats and axis deer.
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Ruger Frontier 308. Would love to get my hands on a 358win.
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My Ruger Ultralight in .308. Nice and light as pig hunting is usually up close well under 100 yards so the rifle is always in my hands. It wears a 2-7x33 Loopy which is ideal and shoots either 130gn Speer HPs or 150gn Hornady SPs. We have similar taste. I live in Canada and there isn't any pig hunting here. However, six years ago I flew to Texas to visit a friend and while I was there I did some pig hunting. For me it was a Ruger 77 Ultralight .30-06 with a Leupold 2.5-8x36.
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I have killed hundreds with whatever I happen to have in my truck, deerstand, or leaning up against the backdoor. Have found the 130 accubond in a 260 or 140 accubond in 280 ai real good medicine. I allways wait if possible till i have 2 lined up to gutshoot the one in the front and hit another one behind that one. Normally releases a lot of squeal from the one in back.
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My 300wsm knocks them off their feet, but my favorite is my W 44 mag levergun. Just fun to hunt hogs with a levergun! The spouse loves the Rossi 454 casull for hog hunting.
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Older Marlin 336-A chambered for the mighty 35 Remington cartridge. Before I owned this rifle it was my uncle's favorite for moose, bears, and caribou in Canada. Sherwood
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6.8 SPC II, in an AR 15 platform. Over 300 between two rifles. 110 Accubombs, and 90 TTSX get the nod.
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