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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 1715075" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>Hogs are built a lot more solidly than deer. This requires a stiffer bullet. I think that a 243 is plenty big enough for a hog in the size class you mentioned, but the bullet may not have been up to the task. The last time I shot a hog, it was with a 270, using a 130-grain Hornady factory load. It flattened the animal, a 250-pound boar. The bullet broke the near-side shoulder, and totally fragmented. This turned its heart & lungs into soup, and the animal died right there without so much as a whimper. What's not to like about that ??? Well, I would have liked it better if the bullet had keep on penetrating to break the other shoulder, and then exited. I guess we can't count on a deer bullet to do that on a hog - the bones are just too big. </p><p></p><p>The other animal we shot that day was one my buddy Jeff knocked down with a 30-06. He was using a 180-grain Barnes TTSX, and we found that bullet under the hide after it broke both shoulders on the 300-pound boar. How often does somebody find one of those bullets in the animal ? I never have, before or since. By the way - the expanded bullet looked just like the picture on the box, and the hog dropped immediately at the shot. I think this is the way it's supposed to work.</p><p></p><p>I've written several times on this forum about shooting deer with the 22-250, using bullets that are more heavily constructed than your typical prairie dog bullet. This worked just fine for me, at least on the rib cage shots I've tried it on. All that said, I wouldn't do that with a hog. There's ammo out there designed for shooting hogs with lighter cartridges, and most of it loaded with a monolithic copper bullet. This is probably as it should be, and that would be my recommendation. The other thing I would say is this : How big are your hogs ? A 100-pound sausage pig is not the same animal as a 300-pound tusker. If you wouldn't feel comfortable shooting a big black bear with your gun/bullet set-up, you probably aren't going to like the way it handles a pig of similar size.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 1715075, member: 109113"] Hogs are built a lot more solidly than deer. This requires a stiffer bullet. I think that a 243 is plenty big enough for a hog in the size class you mentioned, but the bullet may not have been up to the task. The last time I shot a hog, it was with a 270, using a 130-grain Hornady factory load. It flattened the animal, a 250-pound boar. The bullet broke the near-side shoulder, and totally fragmented. This turned its heart & lungs into soup, and the animal died right there without so much as a whimper. What's not to like about that ??? Well, I would have liked it better if the bullet had keep on penetrating to break the other shoulder, and then exited. I guess we can't count on a deer bullet to do that on a hog - the bones are just too big. The other animal we shot that day was one my buddy Jeff knocked down with a 30-06. He was using a 180-grain Barnes TTSX, and we found that bullet under the hide after it broke both shoulders on the 300-pound boar. How often does somebody find one of those bullets in the animal ? I never have, before or since. By the way - the expanded bullet looked just like the picture on the box, and the hog dropped immediately at the shot. I think this is the way it's supposed to work. I've written several times on this forum about shooting deer with the 22-250, using bullets that are more heavily constructed than your typical prairie dog bullet. This worked just fine for me, at least on the rib cage shots I've tried it on. All that said, I wouldn't do that with a hog. There's ammo out there designed for shooting hogs with lighter cartridges, and most of it loaded with a monolithic copper bullet. This is probably as it should be, and that would be my recommendation. The other thing I would say is this : How big are your hogs ? A 100-pound sausage pig is not the same animal as a 300-pound tusker. If you wouldn't feel comfortable shooting a big black bear with your gun/bullet set-up, you probably aren't going to like the way it handles a pig of similar size. [/QUOTE]
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