11-17-2011, 12:22 AM
If your using a 6.5 grendel and not some anemic 5.56 you will do well. Hogs spend a LOT of time with their head down rooting so a brain shot can be more difficult to get then a chest shot. Best to avoid a gut shot if posible. The 123gr Hornady has no problem penetrating to the brain of a 300 lb class hog. I think a pigs heart may be 1-2 inches forward of where your pictue shows and again the 123 Hornady will crack the front ham bone and go throught heart. I think its better to miis forward and down not rearward and high. The Grendel will knock said piggy down, puncture through the cartilage plate,break the front thigh bone destroy the heart and break far side bone,sometime exiting critter. But somtimes despite a destroyed heart (I think pigs have LOTS of stress hormones capable of contracting distant blood vessles therby maintaing blood pressure and activity despite pump (heart) destruction.) hogs will get up and run for as long as 30 sec. this is when they get dangerous. If they get up, knock them down again and again; a climable tree can by handy. Other advice- hogs cant see or hear well so you can stalk them. They travel in heards or "passels" so dont shoot as soon as you see the first one. They move most at night dawn and dusk, and lay up during the day . They wont migrate out ouf the area they are in if not threatened. Oh and they taste good. Good hunting!