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A .308 is not enough if you shoot them like a deer

I shot one CA hog with a .30-06, knocked it down, and it jumped up, ran off, and we never found it. I scratched my head about it for months, then one day saw a diagram of the vitals on a hog - and realized I'd shot it too far back. Wish my hunting buds had clued me in before my first hog hunt.

Now that I think about it, I've shot all but 1 of my hogs with head shots. Be it a .30-06, .35 Whelen, or 7x57, there was no difference in the outcome: they went straight down, & wiggled a bit once there. The only pig I shot behind the shoulder took a 64 grain Federal soft point all the way through the boiler room at 90-ish yards. That one went straight down, as well.

Then again, I once witnessed a shooting rodeo in which piglet required three 150 grain TTSX's from a .30-06 to finally go down. Apparently, knees and jaws aren't "vitals".

FC

How's this???

Precisely

Yea. Rrrrrrrrright. That looks a lot different from the rest, Dave.

I think that a .308 may be the piggy perfect cartridge. We use autos here because we are not trophy hunting as much as we are exterminating. I have a scoped Win Mod 100 in .308, an old Rem Mod 81 in .300 Sav with open sights, and a SS Ruger Mini in .223.

Ths should have been the end of the thread.

Killed my largest 2 with a .223 and a .460 Weatherby so I guess anything in between is adequate.