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An AR with 62 Barnes would be ideal. It will punch through both shoulders of a 200 lb pig at 200 yards.
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They use typical European rifles, Sauer, Blaser, and Mausers in standard calibers, 30-06 popular, as well as the 7 & 8x57, 9,3x62 etc. I have been on many drive hunts and have shot many boar, I typically used a Blaser R93 in 300 WinMag or 9,3x62. Like noted above, to limit wounding and wasting time searching for them with marginal hits. They do a lot of practice on the range, shooting Running Boar.
Yeah... and there are pigs and then there are pigs. That one pictured just above doesn't look much longer than the rifle... almost approaching more like javelina-size... but then the really large ones are way more biggerer (?) and maybe even longerer (?) than a good size whitetail. Waidmannsheil! -Chris
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A .22 Long Rifle bullet will kill the biggest White Faced Bull that ever dropped a turd in a pasture!
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From personal experience, .223 works excellent usually. We use them a lot at night for the likely event of getting into 1 or 2 dozen pigs in a bunch. If nothing else you can cripple several and then have the ammo in hand w/o reloading to finish them. Same thing with dog packs. After using .270, the Grendel, .243W etc I still much prefer a .30 aught six for shooting on bait at big pigs. We have some weighing several hundred pounds and have to position 200 to 300 yards away. That 180 SST will reliably do the job in that case.
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A .22 Long Rifle bullet will kill the biggest White Faced Bull that ever dropped a turd in a pasture! Yeah from about 6" away behind the ear. Lots of difference 50-200 yards away at night. You really should bring a little more horsepower than that. Now a .223-5.56x45 works great in the head or neck on the biggest of hogs. Used a .243 with 100 grain whatever on 'em at 50-100 yards on the biggest of hogs. Actually, I no longer shoot big boars. I much prefer a 75-150 pound sow or shoat. Boars are nasty. If I shoot one I leave it for the buzzards. They aren't fit to eat. And I usually try to eat what I kill.
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The only pig I ever had penetration issues on was a big old boar I shot right in the shoulder with a 30/06 and a 180 W-W Silvertip. He was about 200 yards and I hit him right center on the shoulder. He flopped and got up and into the briars before I could hit him again.
The only reason I know where I hit him and what happened was because my cousin caught him with his dogs some time later and knifed him. His buddy who did the knifing wanted a mount so the skinned him. On his left shoulder was a big knot and inside that knot was an expanded 30 caliber bullet, right up against the bone and flattened out to nickel size in diameter and thickness.
Since then I’ve shot them with dozens of cartridge/bullet combos from 17 Remington to 45/70 including 22lr and 22mag. Most of them have been with a 223 and a variety of bullets from 40 to 77 grains. The 223 with a good bullet cuts through them like a knife. I generally shoot them the same place I shoot deer and elk, right in the middle of the shoulder.
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The only pig I ever had penetration issues on was a big old boar I shot right in the shoulder with a 30/06 and a 180 W-W Silvertip. He was about 200 yards and I hit him right center on the shoulder. He flopped and got up and into the briars before I could hit him again.
The only reason I know where I hit him and what happened was because my cousin caught him with his dogs some time later and knifed him. His buddy who did the knifing wanted a mount so the skinned him. On his left shoulder was a big knot and inside that knot was an expanded 30 caliber bullet, right up against the bone and flattened out to nickel size in diameter and thickness.
Since then I’ve shot them with dozens of cartridge/bullet combos from 17 Remington to 45/70 including 22lr and 22mag. Most of them have been with a 223 and a variety of bullets from 40 to 77 grains. The 223 with a good bullet cuts through them like a knife. I generally shoot them the same place I shoot deer and elk, right in the middle of the shoulder. I've seen 'em shot with .22 center fires and with a good bullet they're plenty. But a .22 LR it's an iffy proposition. A .223 or even a .222 with a 55 grain bullet will smoke the biggest of hogs with good bullet placement. My ex-wife smoked a couple of big hogs with her .243 and an 85 grain Sierra. She shot 'em in the ear hole. They die every time when shot there. My .06, .280, 8x57, and .270 are all death rays on hogs when I manage to put the bullet in a good place and have a good bullet. Hornady Interlocks, Nosler Ballistic Tips, and Sierra Game Kings put Porky to the ground real fast. I shot a big sow with my .250 Savage with a Combined Technologies 115 grain Silver Ballistic Tip in the butt at 120 yards and it went up into the heart-lungs and made a big mess of the plumbing. Put her down in a heart beat. But didn't hardly screw up any meat. I think a .30-06 or .270 with a Nosler Partition would be instant death for the biggest of porky's, If you put the bullet in the right place.
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The only pig I ever had penetration issues on was a big old boar I shot right in the shoulder with a 30/06 and a 180 W-W Silvertip. He was about 200 yards and I hit him right center on the shoulder. He flopped and got up and into the briars before I could hit him again.
The only reason I know where I hit him and what happened was because my cousin caught him with his dogs some time later and knifed him. His buddy who did the knifing wanted a mount so the skinned him. On his left shoulder was a big knot and inside that knot was an expanded 30 caliber bullet, right up against the bone and flattened out to nickel size in diameter and thickness.
Since then I’ve shot them with dozens of cartridge/bullet combos from 17 Remington to 45/70 including 22lr and 22mag. Most of them have been with a 223 and a variety of bullets from 40 to 77 grains. The 223 with a good bullet cuts through them like a knife. I generally shoot them the same place I shoot deer and elk, right in the middle of the shoulder. I always enjoy hearing the "30-06 bounced one off of em" stories. They are the best.
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