And here is why Hogs have that shield!

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And what choice is that plateshooter? I pig hunt with the following, .444 Marlin 24 inch barrel with the new Leverevolution ammo, 30/30 336 marlin with Leverevolution ammo, 7mm.08 TC pro hunter with 26 inch barrel with 139gr Interloc's, .303 with either 150gr or 180gr Grand slams, .44mag 8inch Super Redhawk with 260gr SP's, .357 Colt Python with various loads but always a SP bullet, .500 S&W 8+ inch with 500gr SP's and last but not least BowTech Admiral with 100gr Montec 3 blade broad heads. All those will certainly put a pig on the BBQ with little to no problems as long as I do my part.
 
They look too fat to be wild to me. The boars we kill around here look nothing like that, body symetry-wise. I smell canned hunt.
 
I thought wild hogs had that shield so they would be bullet proof that way they can kill hunters, their natural prey </sarcasm>
 
Hey FF in IL. I have never been hog hunting before so I have to pretty much go by what I read. I was going to take a semi auto something in 762X39, but I may upgrade to a semi auto in .308 that I have a couple of. Thanks for sharing your information of what works for you. Hopefully I too will get to speak from actual experience after the trip.
 
They look too fat to be wild to me. The boars we kill around here look nothing like that, body symetry-wise. I smell canned hunt.
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Nope chase, those hogs were free ranging. Ken Reed has some monsters down there in Bama. Typically your average hogs in Bama and Texas range to around 250 to 300 tops. But you get some "escapees" from farms that breed with the Feral population and those buggers get big FAST. Now granted you do get some "guides" that will release a huge hog that has been pen raised just prior to the arrival of the "hunter" but from all I have gathered about Ken (never hunted with him so I am basing this on all information received from past hunters) he does not subscribe to or condone those actions. Down around Mobile and the swampy areas of Bama, you have the perfect conditions for getting some really big hogs. Food, water, cover, lots of mud for cooling off and not a whole hell of a lot of hunting pressure (yet :) )
 
Plateshooter, either of those cartridges (with the proper bullet of course) will work just fine on hogs. They aren't bullet proof. Those shields are tough as hell on your bigger hogs but as long as you have a well constructed bullet you should have no problems with penetration with either of those. As long as you are accurate with that x39 you should be fine.
 
The shield on a wild hog is much overblown: They're hogs, not rhinos. i've killed an awful lot of wild hogs with a muzzleloader. i often use the excellent 270 grain Harvester .430 hard cast bullet in a crush rib sabot. That bullet penetrates the shields on both shoulders of a 350 pound wild hog and keeps on trucking.
 
plateshooter said:
but I may upgrade to a semi auto in .308
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I would go with the .308. Hogs are real tough to kill. As that video clearly shows. I've shot one with a .22-250 and it didn't come close to stopping the brute. My neighbor had to kill it with his .308.
 
Yes sir those are free ranging hogs ... bought at some hog auction house and turned loose so them fearless "hunters" could stick them! What a load of hog dung! Those hogs probably have pure bred Spotted Poland China papers on file somewhere, including their mama's and daddy's names and numbers.
 
Been hunting hogs pretty steady of the past year. We mainly hunt with bows and crossbows(10 year old son), but, we have throw in the AR-15 on a few trips. You can't beat a .223 behind the ear. Drops em in their tracks. I would also think that a 22 mag would be awesome behind the ear as well. We hunt mainly out of stands and shoot 40 yards or less though. Just some info from what I have seen....
 
Yeah, after looking at it again a little more closely, I have to wonder just how long they had been out. Down in LA (Lower Alabama :) ) I have seen quite a few pretty darn big hogs and they were most definitely feral. Hair was all razored up, tails straight, and a damn sight meaner than those 2 seemed towards human presence. Guess I was paying more attention to the way they were fighting and not looking closely at the bodies themselves. May have to reevaluate my feelings towards Ken Reed's operation now.

But in all fairness, you come up on 2 boars fighting, you will pretty much be the last thing that either would give a tinkers damn about. But again, after looking closely at the fur and tails, I have to agree with Double here. Of course they MAY have been "escapees" and not intentionally released but who knows.
 
Lame hunt. Those gents need to put the charp on those broadheads. The last two pigs I shot with my bow were complete pass-throughs at 20-25 yards.
 
Those are not wild hogs and thats not hunting

and wild hogs are not invincible and the shield is just hard cartilage...if your projectile of choice will break bone the shield shouldn't be too much of a problem

that said my favorite hog round here in South Florida is the 22 magnum
 
and wild hogs are not invincible and the shield is just hard cartilage...if your projectile of choice will break bone the shield shouldn't be too much of a problem

that said my favorite hog round here in South Florida is the 22 magnum
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Getting as slight bit off post subject here but since I am the OP I guess it is fine. That being said,

pikid89, since it is VERY obvious you have no real world experience with hogs, I will give you a little clue here. Basic physics 101, Bone is about 2 to 4 times easier (depending on bone density of course) to penetrate than a callous. Reason being is called "dispersion of energy". Bone does not disperse the energy of a bullet and allows it to break through. Heavy callous (and that is what that shield is NOT cartilage) acts pretty much on the same theory as a kevlar vest does. A bullet, at speed, connects with that callous and because of it's dense nature it disperses the energy over a large area instead of allowing it to "push through" like bone will. My advice to you young man would be to leave that .22mag at home and take it out for rabbits and squirrels for which it was designed. Your mother will thank me for that advise to you when she doesn't have to cart you to the hospital after getting torn up by a pissed off boar that you THOUGHT that little 40gr bullet would "easily" dispatch.
 
Those hogs look like they were hijacked from the truck that was taking them to slaughter. It's called put and take hog hunting. The hog "ranches" here in Ok pay big bucks for a huge worn out boar.
 
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I am an actual real pig farmer, all I have to say is WOW and LAME.
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I couldn't agree more. I don't raise hogs now but I did with my Pop for many years and that video turned my stomach. That's worse than that show "Hogs gone wild". I understand calling them boars feral because some folks just don't know any better, but calling that hunting or them hunters is a slap in the face to real hunters. That's my opinion and I know some won't agree or like it, but I couldn't keep it to myself.
 
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i guess me and my 22 mag only "THOUGHT" those hogs in the back of my truck were dead

using monster guns on hogs is far and away unnessacary
talk to cattlemen and farmers in Florida and you will find the most hog extermination rounds are far and away the 223, 22-250, 243, and 22 magnum


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it is VERY obvious you have no real world experience with hogs, I will give you a little clue here.
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now i will give you a little clue lol
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I have killed so many feral hogs with my Remington 600 in .243 I have lost count.
It's all about placement boys.
 
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