The book Use Enough Gun by famous African professional hunter Robert Ruark posed the question about how much gun was enough gun for cleanly taking big game. The same concept also applies to hunting game like wild hogs. When pressured, angered, cornered, or especially wounded, a wild pig can dose out all the thrill any hunter can handle. The choice of an effective pig rifle/cartridge has to be made with serious attention to the natural meanness of this particular tusk laden target. Most experienced hog hunters will tell you to forget those long barreled elk and moose rifles with 24-inch tubes. They are too cumbersome to move quickly in hog habitat which is usually thick, vine laden cover. You need a rifle that is quick to point, and easy to move around in close, tight situations.
“I was walking by a creek the other weekend when all of a sudden I started noticing all the fresh sign around me. I was just thinking to myself there has to be some hogs close by. It wasn’t two seconds later when two huge boars I estimated at 300 pounds apiece jumped up about ten feet in front of me. I never even saw them coming. Talk about tactical hog hunting,” said Jason Pope of Madison, MS.The wild pig situation in Mississippi is reaching critical mass, with emphasis on mass. Tactical hog hunters should take note. What made pigs so ideal for domestication is what makes them a problem in the wild.
The Rock River Arms LAR-8 Elite Operator is an AR-15 platform rifle on steroids. Tthis 7.62 semi-auto hunting tool is ready to take on any game that the traditional .308 Winchester can handle. The .308 is highly popular for deer hunting here and is the big stick for wild hogs. We’re not discussing ballistics here, but trust me, as any experienced game hunter or military sniper knows the .308 can assuredly handle pigs with prejudice. And the format is the perfect weapon for tactical hog hunters. We're talking about big medicine for big pigs.
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