6.5 creedmoor for boar hunting?

[starncannon]

Any tips?

[wfjames22]

Shoot them in the right spot and they’ll die. 

[Alleycat72]

It'll work fine with the correct bullet. 

[Alleycat72]

Just remember they are not deer. The best place to shoot them is in the neck. 

[wfjames22]

Or ear canal 

[jwhjwh54]

I’ve killed two in one shot with a 6.5 twice. Shoulder, head, ear, face it’ll do fine. 

killed them with about every type of 6.5 bullet too. 
 

I’ve also had them run off with about every gun I have as well. Had one I shot this year with a 7mm mag run off with part of the lung recovered on the ground, while I stacked up 7 with Winchester 223 55gr fmj’s. Makes me wonder what the heck I’m doing some days 

Edited March 7, 2022 by jwhjwh54

[Alleycat72]

We recovered 33 hogs the other night.  One guy was shooting green tips and doing well.

[10-Ring]

I don't even know any more.  I've dropped pigs in their tracks with a .223 and had them run 100 yards straight up a mountain with a 12 gauge slug to the body.  I've gotten to where I strongly prefer head shots, it's about a sure thing if you do your part.  I come across them often while trail riding and almost always have to shoot while they are on the move, making head shots nearly impossible.  Doesn't seem to be much out there bigger than 12 ga slugs, but I need to make a bigger hole. 

[jwhjwh54]

1 hour ago, 10-Ring said:

I don't even know any more.  I've dropped pigs in their tracks with a .223 and had them run 100 yards straight up a mountain with a 12 gauge slug to the body.  I've gotten to where I strongly prefer head shots, it's about a sure thing if you do your part.  I come across them often while trail riding and almost always have to shoot while they are on the move, making head shots nearly impossible.  Doesn't seem to be much out there bigger than 12 ga slugs, but I need to make a bigger hole. 

I'm going to try a blackpowder 50cal and see what happens 

223 

223

merkel 270 single shot.

Edited March 7, 2022 by jwhjwh54

[jwhjwh54]

6.8 SPC 

It all works 

[Alleycat72]

One thing you have do is qualify your question also. If you're hunting for one hog, most anything works. If you're eradication hunting, grandpa's old 30-30 will be less than ideal. Guys get all kinds of contradictory information because the people they are asking hunt hogs different. 

[10-Ring]

18 hours ago, Alleycat72 said:

One thing you have do is qualify your question also. If you're hunting for one hog, most anything works. If you're eradication hunting, grandpa's old 30-30 will be less than ideal. Guys get all kinds of contradictory information because the people they are asking hunt hogs different. 

Yes!  We see all of these videos out in the flatlands where people are killing a half dozen at a time.  In the mountains if you can get 2-3 shots off and connected before they disappear your are really doing something, not to mention the fact that you will be shooting through/around brush to do it.  I'm getting to be a fair mountain pig hunter, but probably wouldn't know what to do in Texas. 

[Handsome Rob]

On 2/24/2022 at 7:43 AM, starncannon said:

Any tips?

Shoot em where it kills em. Heart/lungs (further forward & lower than deer) neck/spine, ear-'ole..... I've killed more with 5.56 & .300blk than anything else & I don't recall a single runner. 

[Ropin4gold]

I don’t know about your experience but my 30-30 with 160grn FTX absolutely hammers them.