Has anyone taken hogs with 762X39 rifle?

[plateshooter]

Since it's supposed to be close to the 30-30, I'm asking if anyone has actually taken a hog or hogs with one and how did it work out for the task.
Thanks for your replies.

[howie1968]

2  yrs  ago  i  had  a  mini 30  i  had  a  4 X scope  on  it  and  shot  samller  pig  with  the  remington soft point core lokts  i  hit  the  pig  angling  towards me in  between  the  shouler  and  the  neck   it  took  the lungs  out   but did  not  penetrate  much  farther   the  pig  ran  about 50  yards  leaving  no  blood  trail   but  i  was  able  to  recover  the  animal.   wold  makes  some  154 gr  soft points  that  would  be  better  than  the  123-125  gr  stuff  but  if   i  did  not  have  any  other  gun  id  use  it  in a  heartbeat  after  all  i  have  killed  them  with  a  223  and   buckshot  slugs  243  357 30-30 280 30-06 and  my  aal  time  new  favorite    the  45-70   i  forgot  i  have  killed  a  few  with  22  and  22  mag  also   but  i  have  found   for  stup  you  in  your  tracks  raw  power  i  love  that  big  45-70

[shb]

My dream hog gun is a mini 30 sent off to one of those accurizing shops, with a laser dot mounted on the front scope ring. Combined with a varmit light  mounted on the scope. I bet hornady would load up some 7.62 x 39 light magnums with 150grn nosler partitions.

Lite, short, handy, and when you wade into a herd of hogs on your way back to the truck at 3 in the morning all you have to do is light em up and put the red dot on their chest. That way you could get two or three before they get away instead of just one.

thats my little fantasy.  research has shown that kind of rifle will cost about $1200, so I'm still using a plain old .308 sniper rifle.

[Jacktheknife]

I use my Siminov rifle for hog and it is a perfect hog gun,  IF...     one is a good shot and a good hunter. I got out of the hospital after 5 months,   {5 weeks in a coma!} it was fall and I figured I had done about all the recovering I was going to do inside, so me and my new hound old Tom, 6 years old and a Walker given to me by a friend, thanks Thomas,     and I went right out in the woods, the old trapline, and for the first time in 20 years saw a herd of Hog!  Old Tom flushed a dozen Hog and they ran across the open area to the next thicket, I had old Essey with me but just watched having never seen hog here before. Then all of a sudden Tom flushed another, a female, without a thought on my part, Essey came up to my shoulder, the front and rear sights came into allignment, and old Essey spoke,  Boom!
The 170Lb Hog doubled back into the thicket and I circled it, once twice, and as I started to circle the thicket again old Tom said OOOOOWWWWW!
"Here it is boss!"  20 yards from where I shot her.  About the deadest hog I ever saw.  Stone dead! Yup, one shot one kill.
              Nobody will agree with my opinion of the sks, nobody!
All of the other guys will say oh! I prefer the 3007x82 with 4000 grains of 99x1313 and this and that, and that is just an old surplus army rifle from China even!  well, without being pompus, I turned down the Dallas county Sheriffs dept. swat team as a career, because as I told Lt. Goggins,"I wouldn't shoot people for money"  I was a good shot. He said "Jack you could walk in here, put on a uniform and I would feel more comfortable about sending you out today, and calling your shots within 6'' of hostages heads, than I would with any of these idiots I have down here now!  I know if you missed it would always be on the side of safety, its ingrained in your mind. You are trained now! better than we can do with new recruits, and you did it with a .22, hunting with your hounds, trapping and shooting your damn thumbtacks for  targets,  stuck in a board in your backyard.  So I spent the last 15 years as a roofer.  I was profoundly proud of being asked however. And yes maybe it does sound like bragging, well maybe it is. sorry.

[moose]

the group i "Dog hunt for Hogs with" all had SKS rifles , the first time i hunted with them, i thought who would hunt with a 50 dollar gun for pigs,well after that day i bought a new SKS in 7.62x39 for 100 bucks from a co-worker, he had had for about 5 years, it is a hog killin machine, i have killed 5 hogs with it in two years with wolf ammo........

[Jacktheknife]

Thanks Moose!  Your appreciation of  the sks was the first thing I read this morning, sure sounds good to me, God bless and good hunting.

[TCAS]

Not a hog but I did use a 7.62x39 with PMC soft points on a doe drive.  Shot one deer and it ran about 50 yards after it was shot.  The PMC 123grain? soft points did a good job.

Hey if folks reccommend a 44 mag pistol to hunt pigs then there is no reason not to use a 7.62x39 rifle

TCAS

[Captainkev]

My buddy was hog hunting with me in West Texas a couple months back with an SKS he had just picked up.
He shot a 125 lb. sow at 55 yards with it and dumped her where she stood.
Took one follow up shot to make her still, but she was down for the count.
Now, on a bigger hog and at a longer distance, I am sure the short 308 would still work, but I would prefer to have a little heavier bullet if it were me, and since it is, I do........................
Kevin

[Bushnell Boy]

I haven't but I plan on using one this year for them. I bought a 450 marlin for stalking them but I've got a Norinco sks with a Bushnell holosight on it for hunting over feeders. It will be loaded with a high capasity mag. The place where we hunt has givin us permision to shoot as many as we want. Last year If I would of had a semi auto instead of a bolt action I could could have shot at least a dozen hogs instead of one. That won't happenm again