Re: 6.8SPC vs. 500-pound Russian boar
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jray</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: steelcomp</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wrong round for a pig that size. You're just askin to get hurt. I've used only two rifles for pigs...my Rem 7600 .30-06 with 150g bronze point, and my Ruger .44 carbine with 240g semi-jacketed flat nose and 23.2 g of 2400. That's a hot round in the .44 carbine, but out to 100yds it thumps the crap outa the big guys. They don't get up. Never shot a pig more than twice. Few more than once.
I can see 500lbs there. </div></div>
I hunt hogs every day in oklahoma because our ranch its over ran by hundreds if not thousands(said the gamewarden). Its not about the caliber that you use its more about the accuraccy. I use a custom ar-15 5.56 and with cheap ass wolf ammo i can drop them every time the first shot. I sometimes even use my .17hmr </div></div>Sure, when you're only shooting the hundred pounders. Did you read the part where he was getting through and through's? Sometimes you don't have the luxury of "placing your shot", and if you know so much about pigs, then you know a wounded one can -and will, if given the opportunity- rip you to shreds. Just because you "can" shoot them with a .223, or a .17, doesn't make it right, or smart.
I have to correct my first post...there was a pig or two I shot more than twice, this one in particular:
I got bitched out by the local game warden one year, because I shot a pregnant sow, 'bout 200lbs, with a .223...damn pig just wouldn't go down even though I was blowing her to pieces. No knock down power as I emptied a Mini into her. Long story short, the game warden didn't like the "carnage", so I told him, "hey Mike...next time I'll use BIGGER BULLETS."