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SSA 70 TSX if your twist will shoot em.
If not any of the good deer bullets always listed over and over on this sight. But 55 sp in the ear hole or just behind it will stone em every time.
My largest boar( my daughter did the trigger pulling) was about 400 dropped from an 85 tsx from a 6.8 frontal chest shot. Never twitchEd.
Stoned him.

I am really thinking of stockpiling a case or two of this ammo and giving it a try out on pigs later next year, the price is really low....

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The Winchester NATO white box 60 something grain barrier ammo oughta be perfect for large vermin like hogs.
It will blow the heart and lungs outa sub 100 lb piglets and anything will drop a big one in the ear hole spine line shot. They're $10 a box and advertised as a barrier penetrating expanding bullet. I'd try em hogs for sure.
I treat em about like a yote, invasive species here and they get shot at by me regardless of shot angle or ammo in my gun.
I'm sure not worried about losing a 200 lb boar hogs meat!!! They cause me lots of road and crop damage and cost me tons of money.
They are an animal and I guess I should treat them with the utmost respect and only take perfect killing shots. But I have no feelings like that towards any feral hog. I shoot until they all fall or I can't see em any more. Same goes for yotes and dogs w/o collars chasing deer.
Saves me from dragging the big ones out in the weeds for the buzzards.

your talking about the Mk318 Mod 0? How accurate is that ammunition out of your gun? (I sure the answer is good enough but just curious if it shoots well as its an OTM bullet) Personally I am not crazy about the stinking things myself, if I see one I shoot it.

These are 62 grain shallow HPs. They look to be bonded and have plenty of lead in em. I haven't been able to cross section one well, but the one I did cut I couldn't get the lead away from the jacket at all. They seem tough and will penetrate critters fine with limited experience on one smallish pig( was in a trap, but I shot it in the shoulders), and one 50 lb yearling deer that I shot head on in the chest. Maybe one Yote too, can't remember.
I have no idea what bullet is used in this round at all. I wouldn't hesitate to take head and neck shots on pigs with em though. I've seen big boar hogs stop some big fast bullets in the spine between the head and shoulder. Their bones are big but they go down even if it doesn't go all the way through. Had a 225 lb boar stop a 180 grain barnes out of an 06 shot in his spine right between his ear and his shoulder, he died but stopped that bullet cold.
Always best to put a couple extra in em when you spine em with a 223. Facing head shots are tough on pigs I find, angle of head I steep and the target(brain) is small at that angle. Best to wait for ear hole or quartering away then they are dead meat!!!