My cousin in law lives in Connecticut and lives near the shore. He won a 25-20 1894CL at a Ducks Unlimited about 27 years ago. It came with commemorative box of 50 rds. He takes a deer within an 1/8 of a mile from his home every year. One neck shot to each. Bang flop. It's all about shot placement.
Pigs shot in the ear drop real quick.
At this rate he will be almost 80 when he runs out of that commemorative box of ammo.
That's the one I was thinking of. There is a hunting ranch down by Waelder, Texas near Gonzales that will not allow anything less than 243 EXCEPT the Boar Buster.
I personally prefer a little more but it works. Seen it a bunch. I have a Ruger American Ranch in 5.56 I have carried when there was a chance but I never did use it.
I'm a big advocate of Speer 62gr Gold Dot for hogs and deer.
We've been using it for past 3 seasons in our AR pistol, carbine and rifles with good success.
It gives good performance on game and very accurate.
I would like to try the 75gr verson in future.
A guy I know that was charged by a wounded boar was shooting a 7mm Remington Mag...it was a bad shot.
In reality he wasn't charged..boar was just trying to get the hell out of the pasture when it was shot and run back to the woods and the guy who shot shot it just happened to be in the way. The boar ran about 6 feet left of the shooter's leg and kept running. In 25+ years of hunting hogs I've never seen a hog actually charge anyone but I have seen them run away towards a direction where someone was standing.
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