Let's See Your Pig And Pig Gun

[Finprof]

This is my most recent pig shot in February 2023 in South Carolina at Waccamaw Hunting Services. There was a larger hog with it but I shot the smaller meat hog. It all became ground pork except for the tenderloins and lions. A buddy near Georgetown has a Hobart professional grinder.

 

[Phil Giordano]

Back in 2013, my hog gun was my 70# Hoyt!

 

[Hunt anything]

Russian SKS and Albanian SKS. 7.62x39 seems to work. View attachment 532945View attachment 532943

Those must be “dirty capitalist pigs” shot wit communist weapons.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Smallest caliber I ever used for shooting a wild boar, was .22 LR (loaded with the Eley 40Gr solid lead cartridge). Boar dropped to the shot. But it was a one-off incident and I won’t ever be repeating such a foolhardy practice.

Normally, I use my 12 gauge 3” Magnum Beretta Model 626E boxlock ejector

Loaded with Federal Premium 3” Magnum copper plated 10 Pellet 000 Buck

They work okay, but the copper plated pellets are never able to break through the shoulder bones of heavy male boars.

For the largest & heaviest of wild boars, I prefer to use my 7x57mm Mauser Churchill Gun Makers Model Deluxe

Loaded with Hornady Interlock 175Gr

 

[Inline6]

First one was with my 416REM. Stalked to 10 yards of him. The second one was with my 458Lott at 8 yards. That is where i was able to take advantageof the Zeiss that sits on top of it. Full moon clicked on the red dot, hammer time. It was close to 0100 I'm sure the hood was happy with my choice of arms that night.

 

[steve white]

Should be - he has been eating my pecans! The joke in Texas is that every sow has a litter of eight twice a year and twenty survive.

What kind of pecans do you grow? (do you fertilize with zinc to keep them bearing every year?)

 

[steve white]

No recent pig pics.. the last one I took was March 2020... I've got another group pig hunt scheduled the first week of March of this year.. Im hoping to take a few with the rifles mentioned in my earlier post..

On the left is the DIY .458 SOCOM... Its a random assortment of parts... but has a drop in 3lb trigger and will keep about 1.5MOA with factory 300gr loads.. Its topped with a Sightmark Wraith Day/Night scope and a sniperhog high output IR light. 10 rounds of .458, 300gr projectiles flying at about 1950 fps should put the scunion on some hogs if I am fortunate enough to catch a sounder near a feeder..

On the right is a DIY .350 Legend.. also a random assortment of parts.. also a 3lb drop in trigger.. also keeps about 1.5 MOA with factory ammo.. No thermal or NV on this one.. but it does have an extreme high output green light on it that Ive used with success on other hog hunts.. its topped with a RITON 3-9x40 30mm optic with an illuminated reticle.. its benefit over the 458 is higher capacity (20 and 30 round mags as opposed to a max of 10 with the 458) and significantly less recoil (the 458 is comparable to rapid firing a trapdoor 45-70... the 350 legend is more like rapid firing a light loaded .243).. Im figuring the ability to throw 30 rounds of 180 gr 35 caliber projectiles at about 2100 fps should be pretty effective on a sounder if I catch one out during daylight hours with the 350 legend rig


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So a 350 Legend is the basic equivalent of a 35 Rem??

 

[mdwest]

So a 350 Legend is the basic equivalent of a 35 Rem??

Very similar ballistics…

I actually just had the 350 out for a pig hunt a few weeks ago… unfortunately saw nothing but a seriously overweight corn fed raccoon that night…

I did manage to pop a 20lb piglet with the 458 socom back in March… the 300gr bullet didn’t leave much bacon on him to recover

 

[Tintin]

404 Jeffery

 

[Aussie_Hunter]

A few good boars all over the 100kg mark and all taken with my Kimber Caprivi in 458 Lott. Might sound like an excessive amount of gun for pig hunting but I often have to shoot through thick brush so it is perfect for that.

 

[Hunt anything]

I shot this boar on a problem permit at night before Alabama allowed nighttime pig hunting. He came from my backyard and you can see where he had been snared a long time ago around the snout and the bone had grown around the snare and left a groove. The taxidermy man got a little carried away on the length of the tusks pulling them out a bit but he was big. He was shot at 10:00 at night and ran into the planted pines and I recovered him early the next morning, didn’t think it was wise to track a wounded boar in the dark, he was dead 30 yards into the pines, shot with a 7mm REM mag with 154 grain Hornady. Probably around 2010, haven’t seen any pigs in the yard since thank goodness.

 

[hyipl]

Mauser m03 in 8x57is Norma oryx 196 gr

 

[Inline6]

Mauser m03 in 8x57is Norma oryx 196 grView attachment 533114View attachment 533115

That's a big can. Who makes and and how do you like it?

 

[foxtrot1]

Husqvarna 146 9.3x57 that I have customized. Full bedding job, timney trigger, wisner safety, new bolt handle, topped with a 1-4 illuminated German #4 reticle Bushnell. Probably going to upgrade that to a meopta 1-6 by next season.

 

[IdaRam]

Simson 16-16-7x65R Drilling

 

[Seavas]

These pigs were dispatched with a SIG .40 cal.
Things got a bit Western that morning!

 

[DG870]

Remington 700 - .280 using 175 grain round nose

 

[Nkawu]

Over the years I have shot heaps of pigs using my Ruger 308 Win. Most recently using peregrine VLR4 167grain. Last year I experimented with 220grain sako’s - I walloped a pig with one something fierce. I have two scopes in QD rings: a Zeiss 3-9x40 zeroed with the peregrines, and a Leupold 1.5-5x20 zeroed with the 220grain sako’s.

Pig with 308 case for scale.

 

[WAB]

Rigby Highland Stalker in 9.3x62. Taken in Dande with Len Taylor.

I typically use a thermal equipped AR in 6.5 Grendel for hogs on this side of the pond.

 

[Fatback]

We shoot a few every year while deer hunting. This is the best boar from last year. Used my Browning 300 win mag/180 grain nosler partitions.