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.375 H&H ?

How about 9.3x74R, oomans ? Or is that too close to being a howitzer?

I've used a 9.3x74R double on boar, it's quite nice really as there's usually quite a lot of weight to soak up recoil. It's a relatively slow heavy bullet with loads of oomph behind it - I liked it and would buy such a rifle if I had both the need and the funds.

I have two - a Rossi M92 in .44 Magnum, and a Winchester 94 Trapper in .30-30. Both work fine.

Mind you, many people here in NZ hunt boar with dogs and a knife!

Over here slug is what most people use as rilfes and suitable ammo (limited to 200 rounds a year) are mentally expensive and scarce.

Slug ammo is simply referred to as "pig bullets". Any kind of shotgun is used - including those magazine fed jobs..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/c ... boars.html

From the linked article:

“In Germany,” he says, patting his high-powered, .308 Blaser hunting rifle “we shoot 750,000 of them a year, and even that hardly keeps the numbers steady. Here, where the conditions are even better for them, they will be unstoppable unless something is done.”

watch this little girl do the job with a .22




Jenks

Jenks wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/c ... boars.html

From the linked article:

“In Germany,” he says, patting his high-powered, .308 Blaser hunting rifle “we shoot 750,000 of them a year, and even that hardly keeps the numbers steady. Here, where the conditions are even better for them, they will be unstoppable unless something is done.”

watch this little girl do the job with a .22





Jenks

And this is why, despite what some of the less steady deposition thinks is the best way to control the numbers (I've heard some stupid ideas for controlling numbers like contraception and even darting and putting to sleep, very impractical ideas).

Or what about using an air rifle on Boar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mCTl0lGyuo



Jenks

No, we'll stick with a combination gun. 9.73x74R and a 12 bore slug as back up...

That sounds like agood option Mr Brock.