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I`ve never hunted wild bore, but I can tell you that a well placed lite bullet can kill a hog where he stands. I killed a bunch of hogs with a .22 rimfire handgun. Most around 200 to 250 lbs., but some up close to 400 lbs. Never was the gun barrel more than 3 ft. from the hogs head. Every hog I ever shot dropped like a rock. I`m sure a .243 in the brain would do the same thing as a .22 Long Rifle at greater distances. The thing is you have to put the bullet in the brain, any other head shot will just piss them off. Had a friend of mine shoot a hog in the face 3 time without putting a bullet in the brain. The pin it was in was not to large, but you can bet he was not slowing down and would not look at you. I shot him from behind and put the bullet behind his ear down into his brain and he skidded to a stop. As Rocky said, shooting from a stand and a rest, up nice and high, I would not be afraid to use a .223. Now if I were going to be down on the ground with them I would want a gun that would punch a big whole from end to end through the biggest hog out there. As I said, I`ve never hunt wild hogs, but I have seen what domastic hogs can do when they get mad.
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