Just out shootin' at em"

I kinda have this thing about hog hunting....but in my part of the country it's pretty common. This one was my 800th hog from the main property I like to hunt on. I nailed it with a .40 PRB, using 30 Gr. of 3f.

Thats really cool....

Mofish, you obviously do not know that hogs can not be killed with a pistol or a .40 caliber ball even if fired from a rifle.  Pundits tell us a .54 rifle is minimum with a .58 barely making it into the adequate range.  

But we know better and that was a great kill.  Did you enjoy the porkchops?  You are definitely da hog man!
YOU DID GOOD!

Just tried to post photos here but no dice.

Hanshi wrote:Just tried to post photos here but no dice.

Finally some dice!

Hanshi wrote:Mofish, you obviously do not know that hogs can not be killed with a pistol or a .40 caliber ball even if fired from a rifle.  Pundits tell us a .54 rifle is minimum with a .58 barely making it into the adequate range.  

But we know better and that was a great kill.  Did you enjoy the porkchops?  You are definitely da hog man!
YOU DID GOOD!

I gave up eating the hogs some time back, but still give them away when I have someone that will accept them unprocessed. I spent years hauling frozen hind legs to a muzzleloading shoot once a month. Lots of the guys really liked them. Unfortunately my strength and health is waning away pretty bad right now and I'm trying to get doctors to figure out why, so I just feed the hogs to the buzzard, coyotes, etc.....I have lots of them out there and I can leave a 200 lb. hog out there, and it's gone by the next morning.
I have shot hogs with all kinds of guns and calibers and they all seem to work if you hit the right areas. With smaller calibers, I try to hit them in the neck or head area and they usually drop right down from the shock. With larger rifle calibers I like to go for the center of the front leg with the hog standing sideways in front of me.
I have a .62 smoothbore flint pistol I have been trying to put to work on a hog, but they have sort of disappeared lately. No doubt they will be back eventually !!

Years ago there was a guy on another forum who routinely killed hogs with a .32. But IIRC he targeted young ones not much over 100 lbs or so.

With those smaller calibers, they will work just fine as long as you shoot them forward of the shoulders. You can put a large caliber through the lungs and have to follow them for quite a while before they give it up.

Just me, but I'd want something a bit larger than a .32.