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<blockquote data-quote="John Klingenberg" data-source="post: 1623619" data-attributes="member: 107749"><p>I did hog control on a couple big ranches for several years. I finally settled on the SST and the Gameking in .308. I've used a bunch of others with mixed results, Speer Hot core 165s were good too. A-max is iffy, any match bullet is lousy. I've shot a ton with a 30-06 using a Hornady 130gr that was pretty fail safe. I'm not a boutique bullet buyer except in my long range guns. Most any of the old school cup and core bullets designed for deer are fine. I dont think hogs are particularly tough to kill but that cartilage down the rib cage can be hard on bullets. It's also the reason you never get a blood trail. The skin moves over that plate so they only drop blood when they're in the exact position that you shot them in so the holes line up. Center to lower shoulder or just a bit forward puts them down. Their spine and heart are way lower than most people think. Where it runs through the shoulder it's just slightly above center and the heart is way down there in the cavity. The 6.8SPC with the 85gr TTSX that SSA made was great, it will smash a shoulder, and if you're using 7.62x39 get your hands on some Hirtenberger 154gr soft points. The .308 is plenty of gun if you put it where it needs to go. Two of us would shoot nearly a thousand hogs a year. Most of them were done in by a .308 from 5 yards to past 600. Its plenty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Klingenberg, post: 1623619, member: 107749"] I did hog control on a couple big ranches for several years. I finally settled on the SST and the Gameking in .308. I've used a bunch of others with mixed results, Speer Hot core 165s were good too. A-max is iffy, any match bullet is lousy. I've shot a ton with a 30-06 using a Hornady 130gr that was pretty fail safe. I'm not a boutique bullet buyer except in my long range guns. Most any of the old school cup and core bullets designed for deer are fine. I dont think hogs are particularly tough to kill but that cartilage down the rib cage can be hard on bullets. It's also the reason you never get a blood trail. The skin moves over that plate so they only drop blood when they're in the exact position that you shot them in so the holes line up. Center to lower shoulder or just a bit forward puts them down. Their spine and heart are way lower than most people think. Where it runs through the shoulder it's just slightly above center and the heart is way down there in the cavity. The 6.8SPC with the 85gr TTSX that SSA made was great, it will smash a shoulder, and if you're using 7.62x39 get your hands on some Hirtenberger 154gr soft points. The .308 is plenty of gun if you put it where it needs to go. Two of us would shoot nearly a thousand hogs a year. Most of them were done in by a .308 from 5 yards to past 600. Its plenty. [/QUOTE]
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