Most Effective Feral Hog cartridge?

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That's not even a feral hog! That's a farm raised domestic hog that was released into the wild. Feral hogs have trouble getting over 350 lbs in the wild, much less 1000 lbs.
 
THE VERY BEST caliber to use, is which ever one you bring with you and have in your hand. Shoot them in the head just below the ear and in line with the eye, or about 3" up from the bottom, straight up in line with their front leg.

Shoot straight and kill as many as you can.
 
hogcaller said:
That's not even a feral hog! That's a farm raised domestic hog that was released into the wild. Feral hogs have trouble getting over 350 lbs in the wild, much less 1000 lbs.
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Trust me they have NO problem getting over 350 in my neck of the woods, they killed a 680lbs feral hog not but a couple miles from my house last season, 500 pounders don't even make the local paper anymore. The world record even larger then poor Fred (the 1051lbs tame hog killed in AL) So they do in fact reach over 1000lbs in the wild, here is an 1,100 pounder killed in GA. http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=1017
That is a big hog, I don't wanna be packing a 223 or a scatter gun when I run across his brother.
 
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That's not even a feral hog! That's a farm raised domestic hog that was released into the wild. Feral hogs have trouble getting over 350 lbs in the wild, much less 1000 lbs.
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Trust me they have NO problem getting over 350 in my neck of the woods, they killed a 680lbs feral hog not but a couple miles from my house last season, 500 pounders don't even make the local paper anymore.
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Hogcaller has something of a point. Feral hogs have trouble being very large, at least those that have been feral more than a couple of generations. Releasing a domestic hog into the wild and calling it feral because it has been outside the fence for more than a few days isn't feral by most definitions for hogs.

There may be the rare large truly feral hog, just like there is the rare truly large black bear or rare truly large whitetail deer, but they aren't common and if they were, it would indeed be newsworthy and scienceworthy.

Sorry, but those giant hogs with the pug-nosed snouts aren't "feral" hogs, just domestic hogs without a home.
 
Ummm Russian boars reach a mature weigh in excess of 700 lbs. And they are a true feral pig. They have spread out of texas through the southeast. Mind you they are mixed with the local populaion but they have certainly increased the size of the avarage pig in the deep south for sure. Like I said 500 pounders don't even make the local paper anymore and 400 pounders are common here. I personaly won't carry anything less then my 6.5x55 w/140gr when I am hunting near the river bottoms.
 
I've shot close to 1,000 hogs, and I've never seen a hog that had a dominant russian strain in it over 400 or so. And that one was friggen enormous. I'm not saying they don't exist, but "common"?

700 lb mature weight? ..... I don't think so.

I concur with double naught. That pig in the photo is about as Russian as the guy who does my lawn named Pedro.
 
There are to many thing to consider when using 22 caliber bullet, I'm not saying it can't be done, what I'm trying to say is shot placement is critical, right now in my area there are razorbacks which got loose from hunting reserve, those are not your typical feral swine, here's what they look like http://www.tiogaboarhunting.com/pictures.htm So what if you get a flier and bullet just wounds it, next thing you know it will charge, can frontal shot placement from 223 terminate big boar charging towards you? Which part are you going to shoot now. Sometimes having semi-auto helps and big clip, but my state limits to 5 rounds, plus assault weapons ban... Good thing to have is a backup pistol, I put few of them less then 2 yards ear shot 9mm...
 
Kyle I think that depends alot on where you hunt. Never heard of a good trophy coming out of the Huston area. Largest hogs I have ever seen are in the AL, GA, SC area. I personaly don't trust 22s on anything larger then a yote, I have seen several hogs get poped by an AR and I am not impressed at all. Follow up shots are a must with such a small caliber wepon. I just stick to my old hat 270, 30-06, or my 6.5x55 none of which has ever needed more then one shot for a quick kill.
 
Kachok,
Trust me, that pic you have has a lot of domestic blood! Bottom line! Short snout, front teeth are not dished (what's left of them), ears are not erect, too much bone diameter, muscle structure is of farm raised hog.......you want me to go on? I have hunted and trapped feral hogs and raised domestic show hogs as far back as I can remember. The pics that I see coming up over and over again on the internet are not feral. It is true, Russian strain hogs can get very big, but I have yet to see one around here that has very much, if any, Russian blood. The problem with feral hogs not reaching hogzilla size is diet. Genetically they have changed into what we have now......long noses made to root for food, dished teeth made to use as a shovel to scrape and dig for food, fine bone and lack of heavy, bulky muscle used for fast running..........we have changed the domestic hog to meet our needs over time genetically.......heavy bone and muscle, larger framed with more body capacity to have larger litters, smaller snouted because the don't have to dig for food when they are being fed out of a trough. The pork industry has changed over the past 50 years quite a bit......heck it's even changed over the last 5 years. People want more and better quality meat and that's what domestic hogs are bred for.
 
"[ I get sick and tired of TV shows like "Hogs Gone Wild" making them out to be ferrocious man eaters]"

On hogs gon wild, It's more in subdivitions as they root up the nice lawns & they can't catch em like we (Group of guys) can Good dogs is a MUST ; )
Y/D
 
"On hogs gon wild, It's more in subdivitions as they root up the nice lawns & they can't catch em like we (Group of guys) can Good dogs is a MUST ; )
Y/D"

They said they are terrorizing the children in the neighborhood........they even have a pic of a hog with glowing red eyes........come on now.
 
I have even seen hampshire and duroc boars shot and then the hunter claims it is a wild hog......heck, look up the yorkshire boar on youtube called the "White Hogzilla" if you want a good laugh! BTW......most of these pics and videos I see claim to originate in the Southeastern states.
 
I killed this young Boar ( 130 lbs. ) last Sunday from a tree stand, with a 12ga using Brenneke 2 3/4" one oz. slugs. He was out about 30 yards. Went 10 yrds. and dropped.
My other hog guns are a Browning A-Bolt in 270 WSM, and a AR 15 in 6.8mm.

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Art Eatman said:
You can't get a hog killed by one cartridge to be more dead than a hog killed by a different cartridge.
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There is a 'Tube' video where some fellow kills several smaller (60-70lb) hogs with a 17HMR. Two shots on each pig - first one drops them (still flailing) and a quick followup shot finishes them off.

True, that sort of messy kill is not 'ethical', but those pigs were dead as a stone after a few short seconds.

Myself, I would like to have a 303Brit as a minimum. I would actually prefer one of the newer 460 S&W carbines as a first choice.
 
that was Allen Warren shooting the .17hmr, mine is the same rifle with a 3x9x40 scope and I drop em all the time, ammo cost too much and I got too many hogs to worry about if they drop or run a mile as long as they die.
 
I've always used my knight's sr-15 .223 for hogs. I wouldn't spend the extra money for a .50 Beo, but if thats floats your boat it's probably very effective.
 
You can kill a hog with a .223REM 70gr Barnes TSX and with a 50 BMG and a thousand other rounds in between.
Stick to simple. If you already have the upper then Beowolf is great. If you are thinking a new upper then a high grain .223 with the round I said if the range is not too long. If .223 is not allowed like in some counties then a 6.8SPC, a 30Remington AR, a russian round (again within the 100-150 yards), a 6x45, a Grendell, Socom, 450 bushy, any of the WSSM's, and the list goes on....
Make sure is a very accurate upper (match barrel maybe) to assure good placement that is always the most important thing.
Choose a good hunting bullet and then worry bout how to launch it.
The TSX and partitions never failed me in any caliber from .224 rem to .338 lapua.
Cheers.
E.
 
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