Surestrike ,good pics. Like the Jagd terrier,Ive been looking at them for a while.
Agree theres nothing like a double on boars busting out of a creek , thick cover.
Cheers Mick
264 win mag very late in the dry season, early build up weather. Hot and not much water around . Taken in thick freshwater mangrove swamp. Overgunned and scoped for close shooting . Shot him when he paused after breaking into the open. Very large boar, 130 TSX, neck shot pass thru.
Same day as above from a bedding area took 5 out of this bust up, heres the second boar had a limp before I shot him. Missing his RH front foot.
boar from above 577 2 3/4
270 win 70 130 hornady, breaking from thick paperbarks into a burnt area, paused as they do.... 90m neck shot
busting out of his bed shot at 1m with 650 woodleigh RNSP from 577 2 3/4 light nitro Greener late dry season 2013 bedded in long grass approx 300m from a carcass. Found him by the smell didnt see him until I was on top of him.
223 early dry season, dropped a couple of mates of and was driving around to a predetermined pick up when this boar trotted out of a wallow. got out and shoulder shot him on the run,offhand at around 70m. Slowed him enough for a second shot. Shooting for the chiller.
223 bust up for the chiller. Left home at 09:00 home by 17:00 @ $2.00 kg cleared $300 each with costs taken out. All went to the croc industry.
Left one Chris gut shot on the run with 7mm rem CDL
the one we left
223, MAK for the chiller all head shot with in 6m of each other
Just done change over from previous owner, 40 min prior. Looking for problem bull wandered onto a small mob of pigs. First shot at game with the double, end for end 650 woodleigh.577. Got the bull an hour later.
Small block close to town busted off a carcass early morning. 1 of four with 375H&H first shot high on the run second flattened him. Chiller, job all four.
7x57 wet season raining , very wet. Followed his tracks after the rain easy to track, to his bed. Pushed him, could only see his back through the hoare hound bush. Hit him at around 3m too high required 2 more second spined him.

264,

I've been drooling over your .577 since you first showed it here on AR. That is a lovely gentlemen's hog buster!

That black boar you killed with the 7x57 on the previous page is a BRUISER.

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Geedubya,

Nice tushes on that gnarly old euro looking boar and that one you are poring out of the old truck bed trailer is a mac daddy!! Wow that is a toad of a hog!!

Surestrike, Got him on the way in to the hunting spot.Pulled up on a cause way and he stood there until I got the 57 out and found a couple of bullets and had enough time to ask my nephew if he wanted him. He replied you can have him. 1 shot at 50m. 2014 Aug
Found this one about an hour later. Found his wallow still seeping so he wasnt to far away, followed the mud trail to a thick clump of weeds a few meters away. Could only make out part of him so a guestimate shot, pretty crook but required another. Good boar. 7x57 featherweight M70
wallow , trail leads away to the left , boar was bedded near centre left of pic. you can just make out trail

This has turned into a great show 'n tell thread! Contrary to conventional wisdom there is a "best caliber," and that is whatever is in my hands! Y'all are dragging me back in!

.416 Remmie stock with 400 grain Hawk soft points.



A twofer with my CZ in .458 Lott loaded with 500 grain Hawk soft points. The core and jacket separated in hog number one and the jacket exited and killed hog number two.



Another victim of the .416 Remmie shot offhand at about 80 yards.



This big Florida hog fell victim to my .480 Ruger Super Redhawk.



I Glock 20'd this one (180 grain Trophy Bonded soft points) at about 20 yards offhand.



And yet another victim of a .480 Ruger -- 20 yards give or take, offhand.



This sow fell to my .500 Maximum Ruger.



A .44 Magnum Ruger Bisley Hunter (320 grain WFNs) ended this sow's breeding career. Offhand around 40 yards in the dark (I mounted a light to the barrel of my revolver).

264,

Refresh my memory? Are you from Northern Australia?

Well since best is out of the question I will say that after years of shooting feral hogs with various rifles, 308, 30-06, 30-30, 358, 35 Whelen, 22-250, 223, 243 and 6mm Remington, 270, 7x57 I like the ones that penetrate all the way through and leave a blood trail. The last pig specific rifle I built is a 35 Whelen on a Mauser action. The next is going to be a Remington short action with a 19 inch barrel in 358 Winchester. This said I usually hunt at night by myself and most of my shots are under 100 yards. If all I did was hunt over feeders the 243 with a tough bullet would work perfectly. I would say that I have killed the most hogs with my 7x57 then my 30-06's and lastly my 35 Whelen. I like the Partitions but good heavy cup and cores like the 225 Woodleigh, the 250 gr. Speer and Hornady bullets from the Whelen and the 358 do pretty good for me. I'm building the Remington 358 because I want a lighter rifle than the Whelen and since I load the Whelen down to easily reachable velocities with the 358 it will all be good. Rifle mounted lights can only take so much recoil. I have killed a couple truckloads of ferals useing various 223/5.56 platforms, often with fmj style bullets and CNS hits and another 10 or so with my 22-250. With good hits these kill perfectly well but don't expect much of a blood trail with solid chest hits and expect some tracking (if you find it). I will hunt hogs with just about anything but I prefer the bigger cartridges. I have used the 20 gauge shotgun with slugs several times and with good result so far. On one of my hunting spots near Maypearl I am allowed only to use a 12 or 20 gauge slug gun or a rifle no larger than the 243 so thats what I do. I have reached the point where I enjoy hog hunting as much as any other, especially night hunting sneaking up on feeders and hog toys.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
No KB I am not a blow hard, unless you consider anyone whose experience killing hogs doesn't mirror the ones you have had, a blow hard.

Both here and in the ARPF, you bring this stuff on your self because of some of the stuff you come out with.

You have found a rifle/caliber combination you really like, Good For You. All of us that hunt anything look for that "Holy Grail" of rifle/caliber/scope combination that does everything but walk the dog or mow the lawn.

But that does not mean people are NOT going to take you to task for making statements about the .308 or .30-06 being too big, with their muzzle blast and recoil adding to a so-called "Over kill" effect that does not exist.

Over kill is a myth! I have taken one shot kills on 200 pound plus hogs with everything from .22 LR to 577NE double rifles.
The thing that makes any firearm adequate for big boar hogs is a combination of a quality bullet that will hold together, placed in the right place.

From .22LR to 577NE a bullet in the wrong place will let a hog run. Admittedly I'm quite sure he would limp a little more from the 577NE than he would from a misplaced shot from a .22LR.

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I'd like to see a Ruger #1 in .348 Win. It would be a great rifle for hogs.

Lots of difference in Russian Boar and Texas feral hogs..I have shot feral hogs on my familys ranches with 22 L.R. 222, and about everything else..I like my 250-3000 as well as anything and my 25-35..They are not that hard to kill IMO and I've shot more than a few hundred. They have taken over my nephews ranch at Klondike, Tex next to a huge game reserve, he was trapping and killing 30 or 40 a day for awhile. His favorite rifle is a Ruger auto in .223 caliber. To each his own but about anything will work it seems to me.