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Smlekid, You have not said whether these pigs are wild boar or feral hogs. The wild boar and some or its hybrid relatives are much more challenging game than the feral hog. Armour, weight, large tusks, speed, intellegence, agility and aggression are the qualities that make the boar dangerous game. If you are shooting feral pigs then perhaps buckshot will work. Better luck on your next hunt! David
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From the morning paper it seems the 1051 lb hog was about as wild as your average dairy cow. And if that kid with the guide and dad spent 3 hours tracking it down they must have included lunch and a nap in that time as it was confined to a 150 acre fenced area. Whole lot of falsehoods to gain publicity here and someone ought to be ashamned for teaching the kid to lie so well.
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I don't really knoe th lineage of pigs in Australia my guess would be Domestic stock gone wild from around 200 years ago probably what come over with Captain Cook but that is just a guess
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Ferrel pigs, allowed sufficent generations in the wild, without significant reintroduction of domestic stock, will slowly revert to their ancestry. Kind of like reverse breading. Just as the wild boar was bread into the domestic pigs of today, domestic pigs in the wild will, over time will, unbread....so to say.
We see it in the wild pigs here in Florida. The longer a population of pigs goes without a introduction of new domestic stock the more like wild boar the will become. With each successive generation they will be longer haired, more of them will be black, their legs will be relatively longer, their snouts narrower and longer, and the boars will develop VERY thick shields and significant tusks.
Even their habits will change. They will graze more and root less.
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I would use 000 if you can get it. But 30 yards is way to far to bee shooting at big hogs with a shotgun. Do you have dogs? If you are hunting with dogs then use a knife. Even a bow is better than buckshot on a hog, so I would take that if you have a stout bow. Bows will kill pigs, but don't expect them to drop quickly and it is best (and safer) to hunt them from a stand. The small pig on the right took two arrows, one to the head/neck and one to the body, and ran a good distance before dropping from the second arrow to the body. 
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I would use 000 if you can get it. But 30 yards is way to far to bee shooting at big hogs with a shotgun. Do you have dogs? If you are hunting with dogs then use a knife. Even a bow is better than buckshot on a hog, so I would take that if you have a stout bow. Bows will kill pigs, but don't expect them to drop quickly and it is best (and safer) to hunt them from a stand. The small pig on the right took two arrows, one to the head/neck and one to the body, and ran a good distance before dropping from the second arrow to the body. I normally wouldn't bring this up, but look at the balls on that sumbitch! I would hate to try to run with those things.
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If you can get/shoot 3.5 inch buckshot that's what you want. I cut down a small tree and killed the doe behind it on a walk up hunt.
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