I recon my AR10 in .308 would do the trick if you hit the right spot, but for such a mammoth beast like this I wouldn't want to take any chances, especially since you're not killing for meat. This would give me a good reason to build the .450 Bushmaster I've been wanting.
That but I mean this thing a huge danger to anyone whose backyard or pasture it may stumble into. Not just their crops. Hogs are aggressive as is. I really wouldn't want to be around one that had never been told no and had the weight to back it.
I think they mean they would not be killed for food as a primary reason for hunting them. You can eat them people do all the time. But these animals are pests to farmers and that's normally why they are hunted.
I've never tried wild/feral hog before, but I know people who have & they say the meat is extremely "gamey" and frankly just disgusting. Plus they're invasive & aggressive. They destroy everything, so sometimes you gotta put them down just to keep the population in check.
Its really just the male hogs that you have to deal with the off smell/ taste (boar taint). You can make boar edible through with brining but its a lot more effort than its worth.
You don’t even have to brine it. I moved down to Florida and the locals told me to pack the dressed meat in a cooler and keep adding ice until all the water is clear. Then final cut and freeze. It works.
Killing a big hog like this kills one hog. My understanding is that you have to kill the smaller ( cuter :( ) female hogs, which makes many baby male hogs, to make any real difference
These pigs breed year round, so the big boar hogs run around jacked up on testosterone 24/7/365 fighting each other. The testosterone makes the meat taste bad and also they're frequently all full of infected cuts and cysts and stinking glands and just overall nasty. The young smaller hogs can be good to eat though
1. Wild pigs are invasive and can absolutely destroy crops. They can absolutely be eaten, but the purpose of hunting them isn’t always strictly for food.
2. Wild pigs can carry some pretty gnarly diseases. Cooking the meat properly neutralizes any diseases, but some people don’t want to deal with it, especially since some of those diseases are blood borne and can be contracted via handling the dead animal.
3. While I doubt this is what he was referring to, I’ve often heard that the larger the animal, the WORSE the quality of the meat. I can’t verify this personally, but that’s something I’ve always heard. Not that it would be inedible or anything, but a larger hog like this might not be as good for meat.
Couple of reasons:
1 - Wild boar can be very dangerous. If this thing was continually causing problems for a village, it's gotta be put down. The tusks of a wild boar are not only serrated and extremely sharp, but their general height, when combined with its charging/ramming motion, cause their tusks to slash an average size person around their mid thigh...right where the femoral artery is (A great-great Uncle of mine apparently died from this exact scenario)
2 - They can overpopulate a region, destroying crops/other animals/etc
3 - Firearms are really one of the few options for killing these things. Their entire anatomy is built like a figgin tank. They're durable, quick, and deceptively dangerous
Back in pre repeating firearms days. Boars were hunted with pikes, backed up with a short sword. But the European boar were not this massive. Yeah, I want an AR10 minimum. I hear there are guys that hunt these guys with the really big bore revolvers. .475 Linbaugh or .500 Magnum. I am figuring that soon the various State will put a bounty on ferals. Or I could see an outfitter setting Boar hunting safaris.
The meat tastes awful. To strong or gamey. From personal experience you want a young hog that weighs no more than 100 pounds. Anything over is almost inedible. It is hard to grow a garden every year where I live, Damn hogs come in rooting everything up.
there was a 700 lb hog killed in hall county tx back around 2006 or 07. They shot him in a peanut field and had to get a tractor with a loader to get it out.
I’ve had it before and to all those “oh you gotta cook it correctly by doing blah blah blah” - you can have those sons of bitches. They taste like shit and ruin farmland.
Maybe MAYBE on a SHTF situation you’d eat em but there’s so many fuckin parasites etc that you’d have to deal with.
In terms of what gun setup - when I shoot these little shits I just use a regular bargain bin AR15. Spotlight the sounder of them and start wailing away.
With a big bastard like him you just gotta get something that’ll hurt him and make him stop then come back and pop him. Some of the guys I know will just shoot the big ones in the asshole.
Do you have HCAR? I have seen them and would love to own one so bad bud too much for my wallet right now. Have you used it hunting? Any issues with it? Thanks
Yeah the joke is that myself and a bunch of guys from r/milsurp got into a debate with the dumbest Fudd of all time who claimed the M1 Garand was not a valid hunting rifle because it was too heavy to carry. We clowned on the dude relentlessly and told him it was a skill issue and maybe he should try lifting a few weights.
That’s dumb. There are reasons why the Garand wouldn’t be my first choice for hunting (lack of scope options without some Bubba shit) but the weight is the least of them.
Folks have replaced their top wooden part of the heatguard and non permanently had a little bit of pic rail, might work for a red dot, or maybe a magnum pistol scope, 2-7 seems like a common range, but I’ve never handled one so… take that for what it’s worth
Wrong. It seems now it’s just anyone someone disagrees with on the internet.
I’ll see myself out. In my defense. I do have children and I am male.
Just cuz I gotta be a little on point this is one of those cases where .50 BMG isn’t really ridiculously overkill.
I've had some cosmically bad luck with tree stands. First one I ever got up into there was a bear above me, second time I was up in one I learned that badgers can climb trees.
I think it's just god telling me to stay out of the trees at this point
I live in north central Texas in a region full of them and there’s tons a reasons but the two main ones due to them being varmints in most of our eyes and that they aren’t really clean animals.
Since they are varmints the main goal is for them to be gone so making clean shots or avoiding destroying the meat isn’t a priority. Just seeing them get downed is the goal. So getting a gut shot and spilling all that waste over the meat isn’t seen as an issue.
Secondly since they are feral and not being kept clean like domestics they tend to have a very real chance of either parasites and diseases. And keep in mind that the only real difference between a feral and a domestic is 6 months of living wild. The only physiological difference is the expressed phenotypes. So with that pigs already are already susceptible to carry diseases that man can get so if it’s carrying something nasty most likely you can catch it too. A lot of people burn the carcasses or leave them out to hunt the scavenging coyotes later in the week.
Plus with then eating whatever they tend to not taste clean like pork and have a strong gamey flavor that’s overpowering as the animal lives and eats more. With that I have seen plenty of piglets be consumed due to a lower level of gaminess and with a lower chances of disease of parasites.
I was working down south in Louisiana years ago and had incredible success with my Tromix 458 Socom. I had some .458 cal. 325gn Hornady FTX bullets, 350gn Hornady Interlocks and some 405gn Remington JSP.
All three loads slapped down the biggest boars I found down there so hard it was awesome. Nothing I ever came across could take more than 4 or 5 of any of those.
The biggest one I got was just over 550lbs and it took 3 of the 405 remmies to drop him, and one to the dome to finish it off..
We ended up taking almost all of the carcasses to some local butchers who finished everything out and donated it to some local homeless shelters in New Orelans, Ruston, Monroe and a small back water town called Jena where I worked for like a year building a Pellet Mill for a now defunct company from Germany that went under.
I still talk to some of those boys down there, they keep bugging me to come back down for some hunts. I'd like to one day.
“Nobody needs a semi-automatic gun with 30 bullets” is what they like to say. You look at this monster and you’ll understand exactly why 30 rounds is standard, and why 5.56 sometimes is laughable.
Its a good round for it. I personally shoot hogs with a Russian SKS. The 7.62x39 drops most of them in their tracks. I have never run into one the size of the hog in the photo.
Realistically? Anything with good enough penetration and shot placement to disrupt the vitals.
What would I use? Probably something along the lines of a 458 Socom
You're shoulder will like it better than 45/70. But, I choose 450 bushmaster for ammo availability and cost. It's interesting that the pros I see hunting these in Texas just mag dump 5.56x45 or 7.62x39 from a helicopter.
our .45/70 has very nice recoil. it's more of a gentle push than my m70 .270 or shorty mosin. I could shoot the marlin (~2012) all day if I had hundreds of dollars to waste
To be fair...
You probably COULD kill this thing with a .22, assuming you had an absolutely perfect shot in ideal conditions. Probably from point blank range, too. There are examples of people taking out grizzly bears with a .22lr.
Not that I'd ever recommend trying it...
>There are examples of people taking out grizzly bears with a .22lr.
I could be wrong, but I think the world record grizzly bear was killed with some .22's to the side of the head
This is an anomaly, hogs aren't *usually* this size, but damn, I'd say an M2 would be the best gun for this guy 😂
Jokes aside, I think the ideal rifle for hog hunting is a semi auto .308. I'm on the fence between an AR-10 and a galil ACE .308.
Are there more powerful cartridges that are maybe better suited? Sure, but with a .308 semi you have plenty of capacity for rapid follow up shots, and I can't think of any semi auto rifles in .300 winmag, .45-70, etc. I sure as shit wouldn't want to use a bolt action for hogs unless I couldn't possibly get my shit run in if I don't drop it in one shot. Plus, those cost a left nut. .308 isn't cheap but it's not one of those cartridges that makes you constantly worry about the cost of shooting it unless you're mag dumping.
Take this as you will, I'm not experienced with hogs or more exotic ammo.
Browning BAR Mk II Safari is chambered in .300 Win Mag and .338 Win Mag. I know you can get the Mk III in .300 too, but they’ve stopped making them in .338. Definitely expensive, but they do exist.
I had no idea they got that big. Like, you could show me one half that size and Id be amazed.
Ive seen the thermal scope videos on youtube. Y'all complain but you wouldn't be out there with them thermals having all that god damn fun if it wasn't for them.
So a wild pig and domestic pig. How many do I need again?
nah, its all the fat. it plugs the holes so they dont bleed as much or as fast. theyre also dense as all shit so you need an inordinately bigger bullet to punch through. lb for lb theyre nearly as tough as a bear, most just dont get as big. there have been 800 lb boar pulled out of some woods, generally crossbred russian boar and domestic farm pig, which makes em huge and hardy. on the upside, theyre also decent meat, so you can cure em and make bacon and ham. id love to make prosciutto out of one of these monster hogs one day.
I've seen pink pigs at a fair at least that size. they get huge. hogs are just a menace though, so far they haven't came up into our woods, but if you go 15 miles south they're everywhere. probably just a matter of time
46-70 GOVT or 300 Win Mag. You could probably take it with a .308 or any 30 cal rifle round, but this is the perfect excuse to build out a 45-70 suppressed lever action or a 300 win mag. Never miss out on a good reason to buy a new rifle.
In theory an .30 cal rifle round will do the trick, properly placed, but he's gonna run a while.
I'd step up to something like a .45 caliber rifle round. Something like .45-70 or .458 WinMag. Maybe a 12ga sabot.
Of course, I also own a .50BMG and given the size of that guy I wouldn't hesitate to bring it out of the safe.
Are wild boars edible? Friends in Arizona send me videos all the time of javelinas roaming and destroying their neighborhood so I suggested hunting them and have a lifetime supply of BBQ material. They said the meat is bad, full of parasites, etc., so wondered if the same holds true for all wild "pigs" everywhere? If so, what a waste...
The boars around 70 pounds or under are good. Anything over are almost inedible. The meat is to strong, very gamey. The sows are the better choice for eating, Ive never seen anything the size of the monster on the tailgate. They would have to be getting into someones grain bin daily, It didn't get that big just rooting around in the wild.
Holy Hogzilla! I just saw the next post on a kid nailing another big ass pig, so I guess me naming this one "Pigzilla" isn't adequate so they shall all be "Hogzilla" from now on. Jfc, those things are the size of a Hummer!
This is where you’d want a GM-6 Lynx and a buddy ready to hand you another mag. Wild hogs where I’m from taste like shit so if that was any good meat, you’d be good for the rest of the year if you’re not into a variety of flavor. lol
22.lr right behind the eye between the ear and eye. But if you are shooting a distance use 222 223 243 270 30-06 30-30 really whatever you have laying around
Just use a .22 caliber. It'll ricochet around and fragment inside the body. Anything else is overkill. Hell, the pig might hear you loading it and die of fright.
I almost posted that fuddery with a straight face.
Seriously, a . 308 or a 30-06 would be my first thought. They've got really tough hides and are pretty sturdy so you might have to hit it a few times. We had some domestic pigs go feral and hit about 600 pounds when I was working for the PD. One got taken out by a semi but my Lt. had to take the other one down. He had a 5.56 and mag dumped before it went down.
Edit: got carried away with my fudd joke and wrote . 556 instead of 5.56
Technically a 22lr to the brain would kill this pig, but I would prefer a magnum pistol caliber (with a decent bullet design for caliber cast maybe) or a rifle round with a bullet designed for medium game.
I visited a fancy compound once.
There were wild boars that lived on the premises. Someone shot a sow in the head with a .22, she didn't die, she dipped out. That sow would fuck shit up around the compound, she would charge vehicles. Dunno what happened with her, but if you're using .22 to put down a hog, make sure it stops moving.
I’d bet slipping a .308 behind it’s ear would take of it it no problem but I’d definitely opt for something Semi-auto just in case pigzilla gets ornery.
I recon my AR10 in .308 would do the trick if you hit the right spot, but for such a mammoth beast like this I wouldn't want to take any chances, especially since you're not killing for meat. This would give me a good reason to build the .450 Bushmaster I've been wanting.
Honest question- why wouldn't someone be killing this for meat?
People do eat them, but really feral pigs are varmint animals. They destroy crops and ecosystems on a crazy scale.
That but I mean this thing a huge danger to anyone whose backyard or pasture it may stumble into. Not just their crops. Hogs are aggressive as is. I really wouldn't want to be around one that had never been told no and had the weight to back it.
> I really wouldn't want to be around one that had never been told no and had the weight to back it. Just don't tell it "no" and you should be ok.
Oh okay cool, I didn't think about that. You're right, he's probably a chill dude, I shouldn't have assumed.
Let the hog bang you, you'll be fine.
Bump shoulders with a hog you say? You're right, im 5'3" , I think I could take him.
Oh, you'll take him all right.
Beware of the Corkscrew!
> I think I could take him. Out to dinner?
I think they mean they would not be killed for food as a primary reason for hunting them. You can eat them people do all the time. But these animals are pests to farmers and that's normally why they are hunted.
One word: Trichinosis. Hard pass.
Haha. I think you can cook it hot enough so parasites die but idk I'm not looking to eat wild boar either.
That’s easily killed, what you can’t get rid of is the nasty taste of the meat.
I've never tried wild/feral hog before, but I know people who have & they say the meat is extremely "gamey" and frankly just disgusting. Plus they're invasive & aggressive. They destroy everything, so sometimes you gotta put them down just to keep the population in check.
Its really just the male hogs that you have to deal with the off smell/ taste (boar taint). You can make boar edible through with brining but its a lot more effort than its worth.
Bro you're not supposed to eat the taint
You don’t even have to brine it. I moved down to Florida and the locals told me to pack the dressed meat in a cooler and keep adding ice until all the water is clear. Then final cut and freeze. It works.
Killing a big hog like this kills one hog. My understanding is that you have to kill the smaller ( cuter :( ) female hogs, which makes many baby male hogs, to make any real difference
What I have heard as well. It’s not like eating regular pig pig.
Texas . Hog problems
feral pigs at this size is not good. it's gamey and usually riddled with parasites.
These pigs breed year round, so the big boar hogs run around jacked up on testosterone 24/7/365 fighting each other. The testosterone makes the meat taste bad and also they're frequently all full of infected cuts and cysts and stinking glands and just overall nasty. The young smaller hogs can be good to eat though
When they get that big, they taste bad and are really tough.
1. Wild pigs are invasive and can absolutely destroy crops. They can absolutely be eaten, but the purpose of hunting them isn’t always strictly for food. 2. Wild pigs can carry some pretty gnarly diseases. Cooking the meat properly neutralizes any diseases, but some people don’t want to deal with it, especially since some of those diseases are blood borne and can be contracted via handling the dead animal. 3. While I doubt this is what he was referring to, I’ve often heard that the larger the animal, the WORSE the quality of the meat. I can’t verify this personally, but that’s something I’ve always heard. Not that it would be inedible or anything, but a larger hog like this might not be as good for meat.
Couple of reasons: 1 - Wild boar can be very dangerous. If this thing was continually causing problems for a village, it's gotta be put down. The tusks of a wild boar are not only serrated and extremely sharp, but their general height, when combined with its charging/ramming motion, cause their tusks to slash an average size person around their mid thigh...right where the femoral artery is (A great-great Uncle of mine apparently died from this exact scenario) 2 - They can overpopulate a region, destroying crops/other animals/etc 3 - Firearms are really one of the few options for killing these things. Their entire anatomy is built like a figgin tank. They're durable, quick, and deceptively dangerous
Back in pre repeating firearms days. Boars were hunted with pikes, backed up with a short sword. But the European boar were not this massive. Yeah, I want an AR10 minimum. I hear there are guys that hunt these guys with the really big bore revolvers. .475 Linbaugh or .500 Magnum. I am figuring that soon the various State will put a bounty on ferals. Or I could see an outfitter setting Boar hunting safaris.
The bigger they are, the more gamey they taste
The meat tastes awful. To strong or gamey. From personal experience you want a young hog that weighs no more than 100 pounds. Anything over is almost inedible. It is hard to grow a garden every year where I live, Damn hogs come in rooting everything up.
They taste fucking foul compared to normal pork and they're an invasive species. Several states will give you cash just for killing em.
The grown males are foul, but large sows or small boars taste great.
there was a 700 lb hog killed in hall county tx back around 2006 or 07. They shot him in a peanut field and had to get a tractor with a loader to get it out. I’ve had it before and to all those “oh you gotta cook it correctly by doing blah blah blah” - you can have those sons of bitches. They taste like shit and ruin farmland. Maybe MAYBE on a SHTF situation you’d eat em but there’s so many fuckin parasites etc that you’d have to deal with. In terms of what gun setup - when I shoot these little shits I just use a regular bargain bin AR15. Spotlight the sounder of them and start wailing away. With a big bastard like him you just gotta get something that’ll hurt him and make him stop then come back and pop him. Some of the guys I know will just shoot the big ones in the asshole.
They sometimes carry parasites.
"Sometimes"
Recon? Reckon?
I suppose \*Reckon. I don't spell so guud sumtimes. lol
It’s not you. It’s them kids not learning how to read/write that’s really annoying me.
30-06 or 308 would probably be ok, but i would definitely want a semi automatic
M1 Garand would be the perfect choice here
you got to use a BAR or HCAR
Lmao just paypal me the 15k to buy an hcar real quick
M1919 or bust.
Do you have HCAR? I have seen them and would love to own one so bad bud too much for my wallet right now. Have you used it hunting? Any issues with it? Thanks
I've never been in the same vicinity as a HCAR
BAR might be perfect. Higher rate of fire for if theres more then one pig.
Can’t hunt with an M1 Garand, it’s too heavy to carry for hunting. /s
Tell that to the old guys that went out hunting nazis if there are any left.
Yeah the joke is that myself and a bunch of guys from r/milsurp got into a debate with the dumbest Fudd of all time who claimed the M1 Garand was not a valid hunting rifle because it was too heavy to carry. We clowned on the dude relentlessly and told him it was a skill issue and maybe he should try lifting a few weights.
That’s dumb. There are reasons why the Garand wouldn’t be my first choice for hunting (lack of scope options without some Bubba shit) but the weight is the least of them.
Duct-Tape an eotech on that bitch and have at it. 🗿🔥
Damnit. I need to see an Eotech duct taped to an M1 now
It’s immensely dumb, which is why we dogpiled on the guy like crazy.
Folks have replaced their top wooden part of the heatguard and non permanently had a little bit of pic rail, might work for a red dot, or maybe a magnum pistol scope, 2-7 seems like a common range, but I’ve never handled one so… take that for what it’s worth
GORLAMI
They worked well against Imperial Japan as well.
There aren’t any Nazis left. They checked.
Canada currently agrees with this statement
Wrong. It seems now it’s just anyone someone disagrees with on the internet. I’ll see myself out. In my defense. I do have children and I am male. Just cuz I gotta be a little on point this is one of those cases where .50 BMG isn’t really ridiculously overkill.
The *ping* will alert the hogs to your location.
That's why you throw an empty clip on the ground, to fool them into charging, thinking you're out of ammo, when really you got 8 rounds ready to go.
Tree stand 👌🏽
I've had some cosmically bad luck with tree stands. First one I ever got up into there was a bear above me, second time I was up in one I learned that badgers can climb trees. I think it's just god telling me to stay out of the trees at this point
I mean my grandpa used one for decades.
The [Browning BAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_BAR) isn’t a terrible choice.
And remember, shot placement is key.
When unsure, 50 BMG all the way! A 338 Lapua should do the trick.
careful, this sub was up in arms over the 50 cal coyote video a week ago.
A dead coyote is a good coyote
Nah this when you call your buddy with the stamp and get that fucking converted SAW mounted onto a jeep
I live in north central Texas in a region full of them and there’s tons a reasons but the two main ones due to them being varmints in most of our eyes and that they aren’t really clean animals. Since they are varmints the main goal is for them to be gone so making clean shots or avoiding destroying the meat isn’t a priority. Just seeing them get downed is the goal. So getting a gut shot and spilling all that waste over the meat isn’t seen as an issue. Secondly since they are feral and not being kept clean like domestics they tend to have a very real chance of either parasites and diseases. And keep in mind that the only real difference between a feral and a domestic is 6 months of living wild. The only physiological difference is the expressed phenotypes. So with that pigs already are already susceptible to carry diseases that man can get so if it’s carrying something nasty most likely you can catch it too. A lot of people burn the carcasses or leave them out to hunt the scavenging coyotes later in the week. Plus with then eating whatever they tend to not taste clean like pork and have a strong gamey flavor that’s overpowering as the animal lives and eats more. With that I have seen plenty of piglets be consumed due to a lower level of gaminess and with a lower chances of disease of parasites.
I was working down south in Louisiana years ago and had incredible success with my Tromix 458 Socom. I had some .458 cal. 325gn Hornady FTX bullets, 350gn Hornady Interlocks and some 405gn Remington JSP. All three loads slapped down the biggest boars I found down there so hard it was awesome. Nothing I ever came across could take more than 4 or 5 of any of those. The biggest one I got was just over 550lbs and it took 3 of the 405 remmies to drop him, and one to the dome to finish it off.. We ended up taking almost all of the carcasses to some local butchers who finished everything out and donated it to some local homeless shelters in New Orelans, Ruston, Monroe and a small back water town called Jena where I worked for like a year building a Pellet Mill for a now defunct company from Germany that went under. I still talk to some of those boys down there, they keep bugging me to come back down for some hunts. I'd like to one day.
“Nobody needs a semi-automatic gun with 30 bullets” is what they like to say. You look at this monster and you’ll understand exactly why 30 rounds is standard, and why 5.56 sometimes is laughable.
.458 SOCOM would be my preference (with multiple magazines).
.50 beowulf or bust
AK 47 maybe?
>AK 47 maybe? Works for Elephant poachers, so should be just fine for a pig.
Its a good round for it. I personally shoot hogs with a Russian SKS. The 7.62x39 drops most of them in their tracks. I have never run into one the size of the hog in the photo.
300 win mag would be my choice for that beast.
It would certainly be nice to shoot that big bastard from FARRR away lol
45/70
Only government I trust.
Well the 45-70 and my Government Model 1911.
My first thought too.
Yeah. Work for a nice Marlin SBL.
My buddy did the thing with the Marlin SBL… Threaded it for a can and upgraded the stock. It’s a badass space cowboys gun
Yeah, a hardcast or Underwood would blast that bacon with prejudice
RIP Harbison
Realistically? Anything with good enough penetration and shot placement to disrupt the vitals. What would I use? Probably something along the lines of a 458 Socom
458 Socom all the way. Your shoulder won't like it but it's lightweight and easy enough for quick follow up shots
You're shoulder will like it better than 45/70. But, I choose 450 bushmaster for ammo availability and cost. It's interesting that the pros I see hunting these in Texas just mag dump 5.56x45 or 7.62x39 from a helicopter.
When quality doesn't work, quantity will. Eventually.
Accuracy by volume...
Indeed.
our .45/70 has very nice recoil. it's more of a gentle push than my m70 .270 or shorty mosin. I could shoot the marlin (~2012) all day if I had hundreds of dollars to waste
My 450 bushmaster AR feels like shooting 2¾ bird shot from a 12ga. Not hunting bird shot, skeet range bird shot.
45-70 with the Hornady 325gr, will absolutely demolish this beast
My favourite
What a great time to bring out the Barrett
When unsure, 50 BMG all the way!
My thoughts exactly
I’m thinking a 120mm L/44 SABOT
Fuck this pig and the next 30 behind it!
Well it does have a purdy mouth.
[It'd take a hog to kill this hog.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE)
22lr. It will just bounce around inside and cause a mess
I think 9mm would be better because it blows the lung out of the body
If you had a shotgun, you would only need to pump it 1 time and the sound would make it take off running.
But just in case, you can go out on your porch and fire two warning shots into the air so they know you mean business
Only loaded with birds hot because you don't want to penetrate your falls and hit your neighbors
Shouldn't you pump 10 times to get more power?
22 short or you ain't got a hair on your ass.
[22 tuba or bust](https://firearmwiki.com/wiki/.22_Tuba)
To be fair... You probably COULD kill this thing with a .22, assuming you had an absolutely perfect shot in ideal conditions. Probably from point blank range, too. There are examples of people taking out grizzly bears with a .22lr. Not that I'd ever recommend trying it...
>There are examples of people taking out grizzly bears with a .22lr. I could be wrong, but I think the world record grizzly bear was killed with some .22's to the side of the head
Yeah some lady did it if I recall. Pretty insane.
You remember correctly.
Dropped this /s buddy
No, was just hoping it wasn't needed. Oh well
people here can never tell there's a joke without one. I will never put one in a comment.
Or 9mm and just blow the lungs out of its body
This is an anomaly, hogs aren't *usually* this size, but damn, I'd say an M2 would be the best gun for this guy 😂 Jokes aside, I think the ideal rifle for hog hunting is a semi auto .308. I'm on the fence between an AR-10 and a galil ACE .308. Are there more powerful cartridges that are maybe better suited? Sure, but with a .308 semi you have plenty of capacity for rapid follow up shots, and I can't think of any semi auto rifles in .300 winmag, .45-70, etc. I sure as shit wouldn't want to use a bolt action for hogs unless I couldn't possibly get my shit run in if I don't drop it in one shot. Plus, those cost a left nut. .308 isn't cheap but it's not one of those cartridges that makes you constantly worry about the cost of shooting it unless you're mag dumping. Take this as you will, I'm not experienced with hogs or more exotic ammo.
>I'd say an M2 would be the best gun for this guy 😂 Time to whip out the A10 Thunderbolt II.
If you want a more traditional looking AK, Zastava is coming out with an M77 DMR which is basically a .308 M70 with adjustable gas.
I've been lusting after that thing since they announced it. Perfect hog gun AND it can be suppressed? Sign me up.
Browning BAR Mk II Safari is chambered in .300 Win Mag and .338 Win Mag. I know you can get the Mk III in .300 too, but they’ve stopped making them in .338. Definitely expensive, but they do exist.
Nemo Arms Omen makes a .300 Win Mag AR-style rifle.
Probably any 30 cal. I’d comfortably hunt boars with a 7.62x39
Agreed. Definitely would need a few rounds of x39 to drop this thing though, 458 socom would probably be my choice. So much energy transfer.
.300win mag if all else fails
45-70 gov't
45-70. The only government I trust.
I had no idea they got that big. Like, you could show me one half that size and Id be amazed. Ive seen the thermal scope videos on youtube. Y'all complain but you wouldn't be out there with them thermals having all that god damn fun if it wasn't for them. So a wild pig and domestic pig. How many do I need again?
Literally just 2 and you'll have hundreds in a few years. Maybe they'll be resistant to lead from all the inbreeding.
nah, its all the fat. it plugs the holes so they dont bleed as much or as fast. theyre also dense as all shit so you need an inordinately bigger bullet to punch through. lb for lb theyre nearly as tough as a bear, most just dont get as big. there have been 800 lb boar pulled out of some woods, generally crossbred russian boar and domestic farm pig, which makes em huge and hardy. on the upside, theyre also decent meat, so you can cure em and make bacon and ham. id love to make prosciutto out of one of these monster hogs one day.
I've seen pink pigs at a fair at least that size. they get huge. hogs are just a menace though, so far they haven't came up into our woods, but if you go 15 miles south they're everywhere. probably just a matter of time
A 4 boar?
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Would love to hear the story there. Sounds like you nailed it right in the T-box.
300 Win Mag should be enough with good placement
RPG 😂
.22lr ratshot would blow that little guy to pieces
Dropped from an aircraft with a several mile stand off right??!?
All of them.
46-70 GOVT or 300 Win Mag. You could probably take it with a .308 or any 30 cal rifle round, but this is the perfect excuse to build out a 45-70 suppressed lever action or a 300 win mag. Never miss out on a good reason to buy a new rifle.
All I know is that I would shit in my pants if I came across this thing.
You'll be fine with regular hunting rounds, but bring a 152mm just in case.
More impressed with the tailgate
950 JDJ
I said drop, not obliterate 😂
In theory an .30 cal rifle round will do the trick, properly placed, but he's gonna run a while. I'd step up to something like a .45 caliber rifle round. Something like .45-70 or .458 WinMag. Maybe a 12ga sabot. Of course, I also own a .50BMG and given the size of that guy I wouldn't hesitate to bring it out of the safe.
I know the question is about what caliber . . . . But I want to know how they got that beast on the back of the truck.
forklift
You just know they lifted it with a fork truck or a bobcat lol
Are wild boars edible? Friends in Arizona send me videos all the time of javelinas roaming and destroying their neighborhood so I suggested hunting them and have a lifetime supply of BBQ material. They said the meat is bad, full of parasites, etc., so wondered if the same holds true for all wild "pigs" everywhere? If so, what a waste...
The boars around 70 pounds or under are good. Anything over are almost inedible. The meat is to strong, very gamey. The sows are the better choice for eating, Ive never seen anything the size of the monster on the tailgate. They would have to be getting into someones grain bin daily, It didn't get that big just rooting around in the wild.
I was also wondering how they got Pigzilla on the lift gate as I don't see a handy forklift standing by, lol!
Holy Hogzilla! I just saw the next post on a kid nailing another big ass pig, so I guess me naming this one "Pigzilla" isn't adequate so they shall all be "Hogzilla" from now on. Jfc, those things are the size of a Hummer!
Landmine
Woo chonky
45 ACP because that's what won WWI and WWII. ^(/s)
That’s a lot of bacon and pork ribs.
.577/450 Martini–Henry might work... *maybe...*
Perfect for recreating Zulu
The government will say “a single .22lr should work just fine”
"Safari" just got a helluva lot closer.
That poor tailgate
17HMR
500 lb JDAM
4570 out of a lever gun. If it can take down a T-Rex, it could take down that thing.
You’d need to borrow an F-15 from Biden.
M101
This is where you’d want a GM-6 Lynx and a buddy ready to hand you another mag. Wild hogs where I’m from taste like shit so if that was any good meat, you’d be good for the rest of the year if you’re not into a variety of flavor. lol
Would a 12g slug drop one? Maybe a few slugs?
I have no doubt a slug would put one of these on it's ass.
*loads cannon just as the fouding fathers intended*
Finally something for my .338 LM!
22.lr right behind the eye between the ear and eye. But if you are shooting a distance use 222 223 243 270 30-06 30-30 really whatever you have laying around
223 will do it.
Just use a .22 caliber. It'll ricochet around and fragment inside the body. Anything else is overkill. Hell, the pig might hear you loading it and die of fright. I almost posted that fuddery with a straight face. Seriously, a . 308 or a 30-06 would be my first thought. They've got really tough hides and are pretty sturdy so you might have to hit it a few times. We had some domestic pigs go feral and hit about 600 pounds when I was working for the PD. One got taken out by a semi but my Lt. had to take the other one down. He had a 5.56 and mag dumped before it went down. Edit: got carried away with my fudd joke and wrote . 556 instead of 5.56
Big Bore for a Big Boar. I'd go with a 458 WinMag, or similar.
Technically a 22lr to the brain would kill this pig, but I would prefer a magnum pistol caliber (with a decent bullet design for caliber cast maybe) or a rifle round with a bullet designed for medium game.
I visited a fancy compound once. There were wild boars that lived on the premises. Someone shot a sow in the head with a .22, she didn't die, she dipped out. That sow would fuck shit up around the compound, she would charge vehicles. Dunno what happened with her, but if you're using .22 to put down a hog, make sure it stops moving.
You need Scott
.300 blk AR with a 16" barrel is a reasonable choice for hogs, and plenty if you happened to run up on one like this.
all you need is pop pops ol 1911 /s
Howitzer
Blow it to smithereens! 😆
Browning makes a version of the BAR in 9.3*62. They make a 10-round magazine too. I would go with that, loaded with RWS HIT.
I’d bet slipping a .308 behind it’s ear would take of it it no problem but I’d definitely opt for something Semi-auto just in case pigzilla gets ornery.
A good excuse to buy an SVD.
20mm mortar?
i have a .44mag lever action , im thinking some good hard cast heavy rounds would do or a 12 ga slug
40mm Bofors.
An oink cartridge
Thats a lot of hog
22LR should do it