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Long Path · February 25, 2000, 02:19 PM

I agree with Gizmo; 165's and 180's are preferred. You MUST break the shoulder, if you're not using a head shot. Frankly, I'm sold on using a bullet through the ear of any hog over 150 lbs, now, having seen a good-sized sow absorb a .30-06 165g in the chest and just keep right on trucking into the heavy brush. Hogs don't have long necks, so you don't run into some of the same difficulties on making head shots on them that you find with deer, whose heads are constantly in motion at the end of a powerful, long neck.

February 25, 2000, 02:19 PM	#6
Long Path Senior Member Join Date: May 31, 1999 Location: N. Texas Posts: 5,899	I agree with Gizmo; 165's and 180's are preferred. You MUST break the shoulder, if you're not using a head shot. Frankly, I'm sold on using a bullet through the ear of any hog over 150 lbs, now, having seen a good-sized sow absorb a .30-06 165g in the chest and just keep right on trucking into the heavy brush. Hogs don't have long necks, so you don't run into some of the same difficulties on making head shots on them that you find with deer, whose heads are constantly in motion at the end of a powerful, long neck.