6.5 Creedmoor for Hog Hunting over Bait

[John_Galt]

Sorry if this has been discussed before but my search results didn’t show much. I’m going to be stand hunting for Texas hogs over bait in May in a low fence area. Curious if a 6.5 Creedmoor will do the job or if something like a 30-06 is necessary. I’d prefer the lighter recoil of the 6.5 CM for quick follow up shots but I’m willing to bring the 30-06 if the 6.5 CM won’t do the trick. I’m not in the market for another rifle so one or the other will have to do the trick. Curious to hear some real world experiences.

 

[SDHNTR]

100% adequate

 

[Snowhunter11]

Thread '6.5 Creedmoor/260 for Deer, Elk, and whatever else.....'
https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/6-5-creedmoor-260-for-deer-elk-and-whatever-else.244973/

 

[Snowhunter11]

I use a 6.5 cm with 147 ELDM. I haven’t shot a hog however they all bleed the same.

 

[TSAMP]

A guy on here killed a hog with a blow gun. You'll be fine.

 

[kkp005]

It’ll work fine. I’ve got a thermal on a 6mm creedmoor and it absolutely wrecks em

 

[John_Galt]

A guy on here killed a hog with a blow gun. You'll be fine.

That’s amazing! Did he share a video? I’d like to see that.

 

[John_Galt]

It’ll work fine. I’ve got a thermal on a 6mm creedmoor and it absolutely wrecks em

Glad to hear it. We’ll be doing a couple night hunts as well but they supply the AR-10s with thermals. I’m looking forward to spending some time with my father and killing some hogs.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

You'll be fine with it, we ear hole them so we don't have to track them so just use anything. AR's with 55gr 223 are usually what we grab just because they're always readily available.

 

[John_Galt]

I assume a heart / lung shot will be sufficient with the 6.5 CM or do you reccomend a head shot regardless of the caliber?

 

[kkp005]

Glad to hear it. We’ll be doing a couple night hunts as well but they supply the AR-10s with thermals. I’m looking forward to spending some time with my father and killing some hogs.

Have fun.. put it right in the middle of their shoulder and they won’t make it far ..
literally killed trailer loads with a 10.5” 7.62x39s shooting 124gr russian soft points like 2100fps

 

[HairyScandinavian]

I assume a heart / lung shot will be sufficient with the 6.5 CM or do you reccomend a head shot regardless of the caliber?

We're lazy, don't like to track hogs so it's always the noggin no matter what. Plus we tend to just shoot one at a time and no sense in wasting the meat. I like hog a lot better for enchiladas and stuff like that than venison, actually will can a lot of it and makes for some quick enchiladas and tacos.

 

[kcm2]

A lot of pigs are killed with 223 rifles and stout bullets. Learn their anatomy as the lungs are lower and further forward than on a deer. the 6.5 Creedmoor will be fine.

 

[cuerro viejo]

A lot of pigs are killed with 223 rifles and stout bullets. Learn their anatomy as the lungs are lower and further forward than on a deer. the 6.5 Creedmoor will be fine.

You don’t even need stout bullets.

 

[Slickhill]

I’ve killed hundreds of them with every manner of bullet you can think of in a 223, and not just head shots. You’ll be fine. Despite the stories you read they’re not armored, not especially tough, and way more often than not they’re not going to charge or try to get you in any way.

Shoot them somewhere between the eyeball and 2 ribs back of the front leg and you’ll be good with about anything.

 

[pirogue]

As a landowner, the ones I kill are usually around my feeder, or stands. I don’t want them laying there, don’t want to drag them off, so I try to make a marginal shot so it runs a couple hundred yards before dying.

 

[Mvaughan]

You’ll be fine hitting them anywhere from the head to right behind the shoulder. My favorite shot placement on them is center mass of their neck…DRT 100% of the time.

 

[kcm2]

I'm the guy who had 6mm CM 103 gr ELDX Hornady bullets penetrate about 3-4" in pronghorn I shot 3 years ago. That one I recovered. If I'm hunting something that would chew me to pieces in seconds, I'm using a stout bullet.

 

[Mvaughan]

I'm the guy who had 103 gr ELDX Hornady bullets penetrate about 3-4" in pronghorn I shot 3 years ago. That one I recovered. If I'm hunting something that would chew me to pieces in seconds, I'm using a stout bullet.

Pigs aren’t going to chew you to pieces in seconds.

 

[Mvaughan]

They die in a quick fashion with a neck shot…exit wound in pic.