Can the 6mmBR drop a feral hog?

[ajacinto]

Whats your take?

 

[H2OBUG]

Yes use a big bullet--should be no problem

This was with a .243 using a 85 Gr BTHP

http://www.handgunhunt.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2231

 

[DennisH]

Pop him one inch behind either ear and it's a done deal!

 

[ajacinto]

AWESOME!

Good to know... I guess some things that are "common sense" are not so common to me.... lol

Thank you!

 

[ajacinto]

Yes use a big bullet--should be no problem

This was with a .243 using a 85 Gr BTHP

http://www.handgunhunt.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2231

Real nice pictures! I am barely trying to get me some hog kills with my 270WSM Remmy [full size rifle]..... SMH I can't believe you do the same with a HANDGUN! Good on you! One day I'll get there!

I am located far west west Texas, so I've been looking at Lincoln National Forrest [mainly NM] for those hogs but so far no luck

 

[expiper]

My Son was hunting hogs in Ohio and saw one standing and he shot it!!..and it dindnt move...so he cycled in another round and was ready to shoot him again.....and he relized that it was dead and leaning against another dead hog on the other side of it.....TWO with one shot thru the shoulder...they were leaning just rite against each other ....one was around 100 lbs and one about 125.....DRT....with a 6mmBR and 100 gr SBT,Sierra GameKing ...the bullet did more damage to the second one !!!!......Roger

 

[CPorter]

I've used an AR-15 to drop hogs and it worked just fine. Before the AR the hogs I shot were with a .243win using 55 and 70 grain ballistic tips and also some 80 gr soft points. All worked with 1 shot despite some bad shot placement by me. Given that a 6mm BR should work just fine.

 

[dansig]

I wanted to see the true power of my 6mm BR
I shot at a 12mm steel plate from 100m and the bullet went through like it was plywood.

that was the 68gr Berger bullet.

if 1/2* steel can't stop the 6mm BR then no normal animal can either.

 

[areaone]

Use a heavy gr AMax and you will be"takin home the bacon" with no problem at all on any size hog.

 

[1holeaddict]

Not sure i would want to be on the receiving end of a 105 grain pill fired from a 6br.
SHOT PLACEMENT KILLS

 

[kelbro]

Killed many with a 22Mag, in the ear or right behind it. But I keep my Ruger 44 on my hip as a backup. They are not bulletproof

 

[GSPV]

Put the bullet at eye level at the crease where the neck attaches to the body. He'll go down like a ton of bricks and it won't mess up a bunch of meat. There is as much room for error in the shot as the heart/lung without the problems with nicking the front of the gut or messing up a nice pork shoulder.