Kinda makes one think twice about .223 for that sort....

by John Meeker , Saturday, March 15, 2014, 20:42 (3912 days ago) @ Hobie

'tho, I know from reports here and elsewhere, that the little cartrigde is effective, something the size which that one claims, would make me, at least, be thinking BIG chunka of deep-drilling projectile.

Yeah, I know..REAL guys would use a big knife or a spear, and they did -- and do. The European paintings are full of boars, dogs, men and cutlery. One could note armor, even on the big dogs, on the men -- and mostly more than one sticker-guy running steel into those Beeg Piggies.

However, a fellow who hung out with the Swamp Arabs on the Iraqi border after WW2, relates that the monster hogs from those old painting were alive and well among the Marsh Arabs. He was considered to be a hero, of sorts, for reliving villages of the plauge and menace the big piggies actually were. I think he used .303's, but don't remember perzackly. As usual, probably not the machine, but the man, and where he placed the projectile.

Anyway you look at, that's a lot of meat to hit the ground. Our stone age ancestors must have been very happy when they finally brained one dead with flint points and rocks on a handle.