Thread: A good calibre on pigs

You have a center fire. The 12 gauge. Solids good to 100+ a bit more. Semi option and no boar shield will stop those ounce loads. If you can line up 3 or 4 pigs it will go through them all. No 223 will do that and if they run a shotty is better than a rifle. Pigs disappear in thick stuff and light calibers are precision calibers. Good in the day not so good in a spot light when things are blurry and you need to hit the big bit. 22 calibers were designed to shoot vermin like rabbits. They do it well . Bigger calibers were designed to shoot bigger game. Was out shooting a week or so ago and there were a few goats about. One joker had a 7-08 and another a 223. Guess what one with chest shots and some not so good shots at moving targets dropped them the best and made a real mess of them?! 6mm + and do the job properly. friend who shoots more rounds in a year then most do in a life time has been thermaling pigs for farmers said his 308 using a lighter load of 150bt's seems better than his 6.5cm for on the spot dropping