My go-to rifle for nightime pig hunts is a M70 Featherweight in .22-250 and my pig medicine is a NBT 55-gr over H380 zipping along at 3550 fps. I have killed literally hundreds of pigs with that combo and have never lost one--missed one last month though. Now, my nighttime hunts are over lighted feeders, at ranges from 58 yds to 125 yds, and it is relatively simple to poke a bullet mid-way on a line from eye to ear hole, and that is a DRT shot.
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Originally posted by chtx View PostWe honestly do pretty good with cheap FMJs and green tips. Had plenty of pigs DRT with shots square in the shoulder. This includes pretty big boars. We shoot a lot of pigs so it gets expensive quick with expensive bullets
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Originally posted by Pigkilln View PostI have used the hornady sp 55 grain with good results. Probably 15 deer and a dozen hogs. Mostly head shots on the hogs. Several of the deer were high shoulder or lung shot and they did great.
Very accurate in that gun also!
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We shoot lots of them year around, seldom from a blind. With .17 HMR and up. we try for multiple kills every time. Some two with one shot on the first shot into a sounder.
I am not a fan of the .223 because most of the shots are running and/or at a distance. Without a decent blood trail ( thick hide and lots of fat), it can be hard to Locate the bodies in the thickets where they run.
We have settled on a 6.5 CM and a .270 for big hogs. For Headshots or small pigs, caliber doesn't really matter.
Ymmv
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You can pretty much kill anything with an ear shot with pretty much any caliber. But I'm pretty sure that's not the info Jethro is looking for.
Jethro you ruled out Barnes and that would have been my first choice. A varmint Bullet dang sure wouldn't be my choice at all.
Maybe a 55grain Hornady interlock or some other kind of stout Bullet?
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