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Originally posted by RH outfitter:
I think the 270 would be fine but a couple of the folks who stated in the above postings that hogs are easy to kill must have never got on a big hog. i belive in good shot placement and a hog weighing less than 300lbs are not to hard to drob with an average deer rifle, i have shot a couple over 550 lbs the only reasion i know they were over 550 is my scale stops at 550 and they were bending the needle. i will share one story with yall i was hunting with a friend in the brazos bottom area of brazos co it was about 8:00 p.m. and two hogs came over the railroad tracks that border my friends place my buddy was running the spot light and i was shooting he flipped the light on and i shot the first hog which was a 550 plus hog at 80 yds broad side with a 375 h&h with 300 grain swift aframes he did not evan move he started running towards the truck out of confusion i am sure i put another one in his chest coming head on he turned i put a third in his rear end i put the fourth in the second hog he weighed 485 a bad shot through the hind end i realoaded and put the fith round in the second hog i put the 6th round in the first hog through the head and i put the 7th round in the second hog and droped him. now the point of my story when i cleaned the 550+ hog i had to use a hatchet to bust the cape and in the cape was all these little nots i cut one out it was a bullet there was probley a hundred bullets of all size from .22 rim fire to what looked like 30 cal bullets fired at 30-06 velocitysand every cal in between parden the spelling. but this story gets me going every time i share it. like i said earler i was shooting a 375 H&H with 300grain swift in the big hog i recovered 3 out of 4 bullets. I dont feel that hogs are easy to kill but ones under 300 lbs usualy go down with a good shot or two. the head shot is my first choice but it is not all ways feasable. i run a guide service and see all kinds of crazy shots and shot placement.