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Offline bkoenig

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Re: Hog hunting caliber/rifle
« Reply #20 on: June 21, 2014, 07:42:10 AM »
Ahhhhhh.... pig 'chootin.  Best thing ever, short of cat 'chootin.   ;)  Used to hunt a lot of warthogs when we were living in west Africa 'cause it was our only source of pork (Muslim country), but as much as I'd like to I've never shot their American cousins.  Over There I used a .280 Remington with nosler partitions.  It was (and probably still is) the only .280 Remington on the continent, since I gave it to a friend.  God help him finding ammo.  The 7mm projectile was absolutely "enough" for even the biggest ones, but probably not "a lot more than enough".  Don't know how tough the American ones are, but wouldn't personally take a .22 caliber afield for die wildschweine.

Ok, it sounds like we need a thread for Africa stories