Welcome to Ron Spomer Outdoors. In this video, Ron and Joseph discuss the best cartridges for feral pig hunts. The pros and cons of big bore ammo and the advantages of small cartridges.
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For 44 years I’ve had the good fortune to photograph and write about my passion – the outdoor life. Wild creatures and wild places have always stirred me – from the first flushing pheasant that frightened me out of my socks in grandpa’s cornfield to the last whitetail that dismissed me with a wag of its tail. In my attempts to connect with this natural wonder, to become an integral part of our ecosystem and capture a bit of its mystery, I’ve photographed, hiked, hunted, birded, and fished across much of this planet. I’ve seen the beauty that everyone should see, survived adventures that everyone should experience. I may not have climbed the highest mountains, canoed the wildest rivers, caught the largest fish or shot the biggest bucks, but I’ve tried. Perhaps you have, too. And that’s the essential thing. Being out there, an active participant in our outdoor world.
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As a fellow Texan I agree I found 125 grain out of a 10 inch 300 blackout w a can it's lights out if I'm going to a place where I know if I need a little more distance I'll switch out and use my 16-inch upper and it's still lights out
I've killed them with everything from 22 to 7WSM. It's bullet placement. I'm not finding fault with killing coyotes but they do a good job at helping controlling the pig population in East Texas
I got a call from a local farmer to put down a vicious boar. It was a big fat older boar and he got so nasty, they were worried he would kill someone. I shot him in his pen, he coughed up blood right off, bleeding from the nose, but he did not go down, I put another in him to try to make it quick. He went down. But my impression is that the fat prevented him from sucking air. I am not sure if wild pigs got that much fat. But they are tough!
We got some massive wild hogs in Canada. European Boar crossed with domestic hogs that are super big. Cause a lot of damage!
.338 Federal is about right
Anyone have experience with.44 spc for hogs? Suppressed?
.308 and .30-06 have never disappointed.
308 for cheap ammo and don't be a dickhead with a 223. 300BO if close.
How heavy can you go with subsonic 308? Would it be heavier than
300 blkout with the extra powder capacity with the bigger case
The helicopter blade strike can cause a delamination, also may hit the tail rotor or damage the swashplate or particle separator. FOD is a killer of aircraft.
Here in Australia, we get some bad arse bastards, and most graziers ( I suppose ranchers to you yanks) like us, use the 308. We aren't into fads and new cartridges every 5 minutes like seems to be on gun channels in the US.
I'm using 3006 since more than 40 years . Never any Problem, from roe deer in Germany, big antilopes in Namibia or moose in Sweden. To my opinion much more better than 308 Win. if hunting bigger animals. More than 200 f/s in comparison to 308 if using 180 gr bullets are possible, if loading carefully..
Head shots .17wsm out to 150yds. And in drops . Put right behind the ear.
Great video guys , I'd choose the .45-70 every day of the week and twice on Sundays .
308
Done
Are they tasty like farm pigs? Seems like a waste of meat if they are tasy
I think .243 if you look at ballistics is more than adequate for pigs. Big or little close or far. .243 100 grains will carry the mail or the bacon 🥓. 100 grain bullet goes around 3,000 feet per second. That works for deer or pigs.
I have hunted pigs with 7.62×54 and 8MM now 270 due to shoulder surgery. Offer first to farmers second to jails third to food banks and orphanages.
Maybe I need to sort out that .25-20 on hogs. shoot for the ear hole.
For hunting boar 🐗 remember two very important things.
1.) Nothing less than a 30 cal bullet
2.) ABSOLUTELY make sure your firearm is capable of quick follow-up shots.
Many guys here use
.303 British
.30-06 Springfield
.300 mag
.7mm
I dont see much about hunters getting sent up a tree by a boar with tusks , it happens . 8.6 looks good to me .
So far with 6.5×257 Roberts, 243 Win, 357 Max (loaded to 350 legend ballistics), 445 SuperMag (300gr at 2000fps) in my rifles wild boar hunting headshots do not matter any of those easily do incredible… shoulders the 445 is definitely king… Bang Flop no squeal…. Hope to shoot my 309 JDJ next time.
If you think that's bad we have between 9 – 12 million feral pigs in Australia 🇦🇺 🙄🙄🙄
Hi there the wild boars came from Russia well know as Russian boar ok .
The boar that you guys have in usa are way different species all together.
Here in Argentina was introduce the Russian boar back in 1900 from a Spanish guy name Mr Luro hi did put together the first hunting lodge of the Argentina in the Pampa hi introduce the red stag also .
Now we have the same problem here in Argentina but I like to said that for some reason if you hunt back in the Patagonia the wild boars are very very huge very very strong big chest and 6 inches or more tusks very impressive very smart animals let me tell you it can't see very well but they can smell you a ml away .
Local people here hunt with dogs and knives
Very extreme hunt because they have a special breed mix Argentinean Dogo and the grate greyhound .
I call it the navy seal dog myself because is very relax dog like greyhound but strong bite like the dogo and fast i mean fast for some reason the Russian boars developed running speed so that combination is good .
Now people hunt at night is not easy hunt the fight many times are in places that is not good access for the bushes and spikes stuff and no matter how or what the hunter need to get in there and dispatch the animal with the knife in the dark a pretty much piss off Russian boar .
I did a few time when i was a young man but no anymore to dangerous im 56 years old man .
Good video
I live in the middle of wild hog Tx and you can over think this subject real easy. They aren’t as hard to kill as popular belief will lead you to believe. I can’t tell you how many hundreds I’ve killed and even the .17 wsm in the jaw hinge will melt the legs of a 200+ lb pig every time. I personally don’t waste the more expensive ammo on these nuisance animals.
I love my 45/70 with 405gr cast running about 1250fps. They NEVER take a step.
wrong type of pigs, real ones are in palaces
Shot my biggest (366lbs) at 125yds with my 6.5 Grendel.
Hawaiian poachers use .22
35 Remington is a good one too. An interesting fact is 35 Remington was the first semi auto rifle cartridge in the Model 8 – a John Browning creation. John Browning didnt make many mistakes that are still around today. I wish some maker would come out with a 35 Remington semi auto carbine maybe something Thompson styled. Develop a 165-180gr standard semi auto round for easier control compared to the factory 200gr for the lever actions. That said, 35 Remington handloaded puts it easily closer to 358 Winchester as does the Buffalo Bore factory ammo available
There was a story I believe a year or two ago out of Texas. An elderly woman going to her car at dawn when a small sounder (herd) of wild pigs attacked her. They killed her and ended up feeding on her until they were chased off. Hogs are not only destructive but dangerous for people in some cases such as this. There needs to be a national 'kill wild boars' week and mke it a community thing where people come out to barbecue, and pack up the extra meat for local families of the community in need.
The 22mag is a awesome ear hole caliber, and I have killed hundreds with it, basically any caliber from .223 , 243 , 308 , ect any thing you hunt for deer with.
Big hogs are tough and don’t bleed much so a bigger exit hole is better if you’re not ear hole shooting
I like to shoot the really big ones. Yes just about anything will kill an average pig but for me ( Shoot what you like) my favorite big boar medicine is the old 9.3×57 (Not the 9.3×64) with the 286 gr. Norma Alaskan. Big, relatively slow, despite the name "Potato gun", flat enough out to at least 200 yards, it piles the biggest of 'em up pretty quick.
I have taken hogs with a 12 gauge, 00 buck and one ounce slugs. They are a nuisance down here in South Texas.
Helicopter work is usually about $1000, an hour , better get at least 100 pigs an hour to just break even
Hey Ron you’ve got someone who hacked your YouTube. Told me I won a gun and needed $150 to ship it!!
338 Federal
Form my experience in FL. 7.62×39 was very effective and cheap. My AK was Accurate enough cheap to shoot and suppressed. 90% where head shots out to maybe 150 yards no pig ever got back up and lived.
.44 magnum revolver or a.45-70 lever gun, both with heavy cast bullets.
feral pigs? those don't exist, they're a myth created by the NRA to boost gun sales! /endsatire
IT'S HARD FOR ME to feel sorry for these farmers. They cry about the ferral pigs, but then they demand $100+/day for hunters to hunt them.
I would use a 12 gauge with a slug load
A great pig cartridge is whatever you have on hand. I'm not "hunting" pigs, I'm killing pigs. I've used everything from 22lr to 357SIG and Magnum to 270 Weatherby. If the cartridge is not powerful enough for a one-shot kill, you pull the trigger until the pig stops or you can't see it anymore. If I know there is a big group frequenting an area, I take a 20" ar15 with a 30 round mag of 55gr. FMJ.
So the takeaway here is, ‘maybe not .22lr’ anything else might work ok.
I like the 458 SOCOM in 300 grain. My first hog hunt I was on the ground snapped off a shot and missed and the 6 hogs came charging straight at me. This was way different for an old deer hunter. Dropped one of them at 15 yards stopped right in front of me. The rest took off to the sides. In the brush I want a big bullet with plenty of stopping power. Seen hogs shot with 223 that just kept on going, yes shot placement is important, but hogs are dangerous. That was my biggest take away, was hogs will charge you and a lot of people going the first time and expect deer like responses can get a real nasty surprise.
One way to poison hogs is to use sausages with slightly too much ham curing salts added. Anyone eating ham or any pork other than fresh eats curing salt, add too much and it kills anything.