Gun for hogs?

[8X56MS]

One of the most prolific hog killers I have ever met, is a 12 year old boy that kills them with a Savage 110 in .223 Remington.

Personally, I use a .44 Mag lever gun with heavy for caliber handloads.

[Minihuntur]

Between the ear and eye, like an elephant? well, I also have a 12 gauge with.... I think it's 1 1/4 oz. hp. but i'm not sure.

Minihunter

[skeeter@ccia.com]

we don't have hogs running in the wilds like maybe Florida or the Carolinas..but I do hear Pa. has some places other than in a fenced yard to hunt them and find them in numbers...anyone know of or hear of such an area we can enjoy a hog hunt here in Pa?.....I also wonder why I hear lots from not only HC members but elsewhere as to the smallest cal to hunt anything...why do we insist on hunting everything with a slingshot?....why not just use what will put them down?...just something I noticed..

[Dom]

Ya Skeeter, gotta agree with you on that "let's see how small a caliber we can use on this or that" mentality, BUT you will never see me advocate that stance. Use a caliber to do the job ethically. Now who is gonna write anywhere that they shot this or that and never found it? No, they musta just plain ol' missed it. Now for boar, minimum should be 6.5, end of story. But I gotta admit, boars come in all sizes and on top of that, we're probably talking ferals here, of which I don't have any experience hunting.

I even saw a video somewhere on the net where a 'guy', won't use the term hunter, shot about a 70lb boar with a pellet gun. He was close though, I don't remember if it was a fence op or not. Heck now you gave 'em another idea to try it with a slingshot!

Skeeter, give Adam Helmer, an HC member here, a PM, he might just be able to shed some light on boar in Pennsylvania he'd be willing to share with you, Waidmannsheil, Dom.

[wrenchman]

dom i think i seen the same vid and thought it was sad it shouldnt have been shown.
I am in agreement go with the largest you have i shot a hog couple years back with 06 150 grain it went down no problim i found the bullet did not pass threw it was found just under the skin on the oppisite shoulder.
I seen a russian cross that was shot with a 44mag about 8 years ago he was with out a dought one of the largest russian cross hogs i have seen he ran he my brother n law up a small tree he was filming it.