Our driven hunt season is getting closer. I usually practice on the running boar with the .222 Remington, in order to practice under more "real-world"-conditions with the big rifle I use the following reduced load for my 30/06:

33 grain Vihta N110, 125 grain Sierra SP, ~800 m/s.

Doesn't heat the barrel a lot and is soft to shoot, groups 35 mm/100 meters, POI is pretty close at 60 meters (running boar distance) to the real hunting loads.

Does the target reverse itself or do you have to shoot it running backwards when it returns to the other side? How fast does it travel across the shooting lane?

I think setting it the German woods waiting on the hogs to come running through would be a great time. Do more than one group come through. or is it a one time pass, then you have to move on to another place?

Harold,

the picture is from Switzerland, here for whichever reason they run from right to left.

They usually have a electronic hit indicator, that means, when they return from left to right (or vice versa in Switzerland) you shoot again at the front part which is then in fact the rear end.

It takes 2 seconds to run over a distance of 6 meters, distance from shooter to target is either 50 or 60 meters. It's fun and real good practice for those running shots with a rifle. The big difference to skeet is that you do not lead the animal, that means, your rifle bullet is so much faster than the shot pellets that you still aim within the animal's body, usually on the neck.

If you see a lot of game on a driven hunt depends of course on many factors; there are good and bad areas, good and bad days and sometimes ist just luck. I have shot between "0" animals (many times) and 6 or 7 on one hunt.

Probably the most famous driven hunts on the continent are the "monterías" in Spain. Go to youtube.com when you want to have a look.