In August I will be hunting young wild boar in Germany. As we are travelling through France I will be unable to take my 308Win which I would load up with 180gn RN SP bullets. I will therefore be taking my 375 H+H. Which bullet do you recommend of the three?
300gn woodleigh RNSP @ 2280 fps
270gn hornady RNSP @ 2465 fps
220gn hornady FNSP @ 2340fps
I have used the downloaded 300gn to great effect on trophy waterbuck, impala and baboon with very little meat damage.
Many thanks

Mark

hi mark
any of those bullets will work fine on young boar you may want to use the heavist to cut down on carcass damage!
scirroco

Good answer, one of the best bullet/cartridge-combination for boars is the 8x57 with the 196grs roundnosebullet.

Hi, My recommendation is the Hornady 270 RNSP.
At the velocity you list, it is just a little faster than the 9,3x62. Sirroco does make a good point but since I have had no experience with the Woodleigh bullet I can not reccomend it, others who have used it are better able to comment.

Monastry-Forester, no arguments with your choise of bullet/load for boar. I have found the 9.3x57 with a 286 grain soft point to be first class.

I've done a little bit of wild boar hunting with the .375

Of the bullets that you mention my pick woul be Hornady's Flat Point, but I would shoot it at 2,800 fps.

At those speeds it is an extremely efficient killer and I have seen it hold up very well.

Montero

Oldun, I have a nice Husquana98(not96) in9,3x57. I use a 255 Softpoint from Sako, velocity unknown, but the boars died quickly!

M-F
My 9.3x57 is an Husqvarna on a 98 action too. They are grand rifles,
We can not get Sako bullets here, however Norma 232, 286 and Speers 270 grainers are avaiable.
Have you tried WW748 powder in your x57? It shoots vey well in mine.
Weidmannsheil

Oldun, I haven´t tried W 748, because it is nearly impossible to get in Germany, I would like to do it in my .350Rem Mag, but.... So I use N140 in the 9,3x57. This is often done in Scandinavia, so there are lots of informations. I haven´t a lot of practise with the 9,3x57, because I mounted a Tasco Pro-Point, and this thing did not survived one winter. Now I´ll mount a Docter-sight and automn and winter could come.

A friend of mine also hunt's with a 308 and a Parker Hale Safari 375H&H, and for preparing for a trip to Africa he took the 375H&H out for pig's instead of the 308, he used 300gr Hornady round nose's which created alot of meat damage, where I use a 9.2x62 with 258gn RWS H'MANTELS and WOODLEIGH 286gn softs with good results.
Therefore I would recomend 300gn Woodleighs round nose's at appox MV2400fps, at this low speed you should recover the Woodleigh soft noses perfectly expanded holding over 90 of it's original weight.
I would imagine shoot threw's could be dangerous in highly populated places like Europe.
Good hunting, AC

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8x57

I've taken a few hogs in Austria with this round and it has never let me down.

I have used the 270grs Hornady in a 376 Steyr on boar with good success. Exit wounds were fairly large, but never any meat damage with good shot placement.

MarkH

I have used a .375 H&H with 300 gr Woodleigh RNSP's at about 2450 fps on Australian feral pigs, plus buffalo, and various African game.

A sure killer with good bullet performance.

The bullet was devastating on the smaller Aussie feral pigs (than European boar) especially if major bone was hit.

You will have no problems with it on boar.

I have long experience in hunting boars in Spain. Boars are not very heavy , but they are bags of adrenaline with legs, and they are extremly resistant to shoots.

For a .375 H&H, (a caliber that I use normally, for this type of hunting) I have had a lot of sucess in drive in hunting, with speer 235 gr and Barnes-X 210 gr, the first at 2700 ft/s and the second at 2900 ft/s. Most of the boars (+80%) fell on its trucks, and the remainder never run more than 20 m. Take into account, that in drive in hunting it is not always possible, to put the bullet in the right place. Both loads refered worked fine in these difficult hunting conditions, even with the strongest males.

Premium bullets of heavy weight (300 gr) in my experience, never worked as good stoppers than the avobe loads.

Hornady 270 gr at 2700 ft/s worked fine too, but the recoil was bigger than the refered loads.

MarkH,

I've used my .375 H&H for driven game with good success in Europe - it is a fantastic Piggie & Red Stag thumper. Like you've mentioned, I keep the 9.3x62 & .375 H&H on my European Firearms Pass for travelling countries with military cartridge legislation.

In my expereince I've never had to go to the expense of using premium grade bullets for Continetal game, the vanilla-flavored bullets work just fine. While I'm sure the Woodleigh bullets would be great I just don't perceive the need to use these premium priced bullets for the game we shoot.

I have used the Sierra Gameking 300 grain Spitzer Boattails (couldn't get the 250 grainers to my accuracy expectations) in the past with fine success but now use the even less expensive and more commonly available PMP 300 grain Round Nose Soft Points. As you can notice I'm a believer in using the heavy bullets. Although I've no expereince with the Hornady 270 grain bullets, if I had a box I'd try them too!