They're pigs, not Sherman tanks. Flesh and bone...of course .243 is enough.

So East did you recover that last butt shot pig in the brush?
"Just askin'"

223.... bc you can get more holes in a herd. Anything is big enough for hogs; including chunking rocks at them.

Sure am glad that no one has ever tried to kill a hog with a bow since a .243 is not enough.

I am trying to understand this also and that is why I asked the question. To me alot of you guys need to treat this question like you treat the people that see a Mtn lion I want pics. I own a .243 and I have never even thought twice about shooting a hog with it.
I shoot an 85 gr boat tail HP and it is good for the deer in Brazoria county but after 200yds you have to shoot them in the neck or there will be no blood. If I know I am going to shoot hogs I usually go with a .444 with a 265 round nose and a 1911 straped on my hip if they run.

I have never thought of a hog of being easier to take out than a deer.

...and it's still dead!

150 yards through the fog. Ran 15 yards.

Does this look like a man that gives up???? I think not

I've shot hogs with rifles ranging from very small 22lr/22mag/17rem to very large 375rum and you shoot hogs different with the small calibers.

I'm skeered now so I know them hogs were too. Them hogs were just die'n to get in a pic with ya I can tell.

I will put it this way. I hunted this entire last weekend with little sleep. When I did a spot and stalk on ONE pig, I carried the 25-06. When I did the spot and stalk on multiple pigs I carried either the 7mm or 300. After the first shot, and the rest scattered. I was just hoping for a hit, so I always figured the bigger the bullet the bigger the blood trail.

Of course there are always things you cant explain. Some call it missing, but I blame the caliber.

You missed with that much lead in the air? Say it ain't so.

Yea, but they kept closing their eyes when the flash went off!

What I see when this comes up is quite often the guy asking will ask which, say a .243 or a 30-06. If buying a gun,and those were my only 2 choices, Id probably go with the 30-06, just because as Elmer said, you really cant have too much gun.

I cant understand why the question is so often made between calibers that are basically large and small, is it fear of recoil?

We all know guns and caliber choices are as personal as our choice in women and dogs. Everybody has their favorite or favorites.

Personally, I just say make a choice and go learn to shoot it. When you can shoot it well, them go kill something. If you're truly serious, do an autopsy and see what the damage was and then do it again. If the damage is not what you want, then rethink your choice and go again.

Hell, ain't that the fun of it all?

hog shot in the tail with a .50 BMG will run just as far as one shot in the tail with a bb-gun.

Learn to shoot, and you'll be just fine . . .



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can kill them dead on the spot with just about anything.

Who would want to recover a hog that has been buttshot... ?? I don't know how a pig can hold so much crap but that is one I would not want to eat

Not everyone can afford one of everything

I've killed more with a 300wm, but I got the rifleman nickname from shooting them with a lever action 22mag.

Yes, it is wise to obey the scriptures...

It all depends on how you like to hunt. If you like to wait for that one perfect shot and pass on anything else, then you can kill them with anything. If your like me and just want them dead use a bigger gun. You wont have to wait for the perfect shot to get the job done. You can kill them running, facing you, angling away or towards, or walking straight away from you.

with me i have severeal guns and it depends on if i want to recover a hog for the dinner table or i am just shooting critters in the off season if am doing the latter my 223 ar or my mini 30 may be at my side if trying to get one in truck bed for some pork i go with my 308, 270 or 45/70 , i understand all are not luckey to have such a colletion of rifles if had to go with one for texas game would be no smaller than 243, and one for north amercian game at least a 270 . and by the way ever hog on my place gets a round threw at it if all i got is a 22 and they are still gaining on us

What ever gun I have in my hand when I see hogs is my hog gun at the moment. A 243 works nicely on hogs if a very large boar is encountered just make sure the bullet goes in the vitals and dead boar, perhaps not DRT but still dead, and a big boar typically does not make it to my table, but they do make for a good coyote bait

I guess I should have asked the question another way then.
We have already heard from the shot placement guy. (Duh)
We have already heard from the bowhunter which that is a choice to take a bow out and hunt.
We have already heard from the guy that shoots them with a 22 short and kills them everytime BS by the way.

Who actually on here goes out looking to hunt hogs and uses a .223, .243 or the 22 LR as a preferance? If so would give advice to a young hunter that is looking for a rifle to shoot hogs because the question gets asked and these are some of the suggestions that are given. Quit reading between the lines on these questions. Never said that one of these calibers couldnt kill a hog but what is a preffered caliber.

I don't go out to hunt hogs... but will say what is taken depends on what I'll be doing. Riding all over the place on a 4wheeler cecking feeders will often have the 17rem or 22mag with me. Rol up on a feeder and there's hogs under it, they'll get shot. Just riding around the pasture I'll have a long range gun and the AR. Sitting on the couch and shining a light across the back pasture usually means an AR will get the nod b/c it's the closest thing from the couch.