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32-20 on feral hogs

breakerdanbreakerdan Member Posts: 364 ✭✭✭
edited April 2008 in Ask the Experts
Anybody out there using the 32-20 on feral hogs?
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  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't think I would pigs are too tough.
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  • ShooterTooShooterToo Member Posts: 29 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I might not try a 200# hog with one unless it was an "in-the-ear" shot. I shoot a lot of pigs and have used most everything from a .22lr to 45-70. All will do the job if you do. I have a Uberti Rolling Block that I have been thinking of rebarreling and chambering in the Federal .327 just for pigs. Right now my pig round of choice is the .45 Colt.
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  • GeriGeri Member Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hopefully, someone will produce a rifle for the 327 federal. A nice sporting handgun would be a wellcome addition also.
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  • mbsamsmbsams Member Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My H%R Handi-Rifle in 45-70 is perfect for Hogs!
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  • Wehrmacht_45Wehrmacht_45 Member Posts: 3,377
    edited November -1
    Yeah underpowered. I don't shoot any game outside of small animals with anything less than a 357 mag.
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  • ern98ern98 Member Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years back a person I knew went to put a couple of large hogs down for butchering. He used his 357mag with middlen heavy bullets. He had to reload to finnish. I don't think he knew where to shoot very well and they were well over 200lbs. Big pigs can be tough.
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  • MrGunz22MrGunz22 Member Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gamo claims to have an airgun that can dispatch wild boar with their new ammo. They actually have a video of a guy killing one with the gun. Heart shot. Personally Ive only killed hogs with my bow and a 270 win. Both put the hog down in less that 40 yds.
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  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just because you "can" doesn't mean you should.

    Feral hogs (aka razorbacks, boar, etc) are potentially dangerous animals that have sharp tusks and can weigh over 200 pounds.

    More gun is better.

    For a handgun, I wouldn't even consider anything under .357, and personally, I'd start the "bidding" at .44 magnum.

    Edit: FYI, .32-20 from a rifle is ballistically inferior to a .357 magnum from a pistol, namely it shoots a smaller caliber lighter bullet at lower velocity.

    hog-jamison.jpg

    (This image is exaggerated since its a small kid who is sitting pretty far behind the hog, but you get the idea).
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  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a kid on the farm, where I still hapen to live, we shot hogs to butcher with a .22 short. Close range, between the eyes about an inch up. Would not recomend this procdure on a wild hog that could hurt you!
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