I accidentally deleted the first posting of this topic...These are some photos of past boar hunts. The fat boar with the open sight handgun was a Redhawk using Winchester 44mag ammo loaded with a 250gr Partition.The other 2 boar were taken on the same day using my Freedom Arms 454 that was also loaded with Win. factory ammo using a 260gr Partition bullet. The pig with the stick in its mouth was still alive and I finished it with a 280gr
SWC-GC bullet over a good charge of H-110 from my Ruger Bisly with a
4 5/8" barrel. Love hunting boar....

James,
tell us more about the boar hunts.
where and when. private land or public.
haven't hunted for years but would sure like to shoot a hog.
thanks,  ace

Ace, The photo of the fat boar on the left was taken at Tioga hunt ranch in north central Pennsylvania. I used Win. factory ammo loaded with a 250gr Partition and when I shot this boar all I could think of is when you hook a large bass that comes flying out of the water because thats exactly what this pig looked like when I shot him. He jumped straight up in the air and when he landed he stumbled around till I put another round. The other 2 boar were from a more pure Eurasian blood line and were nasty. After I shot the one with the stick in its mouth I walked up on it and it was trying to pull himself to me while snapping its jaw to get my foot. I put the stick in its mouth and shot him with a Bisly in 45 Colt. The one behind the tree was very large indeed... he was 300lb or better. They were shot with the 454 loaded with a 260gr Partition. The place I shot them was Cherry Ridge in western Penn. that no longer has boar but is strickly a whitetail ranch.Thanks for your interest in my hunt and hope you can get back out one day soon,James
PS -the boar in the snow was taken with a FA`s 475
      the picture with my red & black jacket was the first boar I took using my Redhawk and Win. old 240gr LSWC ammo
      the black & white boar was dropped with a S&W 460

James
thanks for the reply.
ace

James congratulations on your many boar hunts looks like great success by the photos.
How far were the shots taken and did you recover any lead? I`m always interested in bullet performance in tougher skinned game than deer. The spent slugs tell a story of there own if they can be found.

marksmen, Give me some time to take some pictures of the the bullets I`ve recovered from my handgunned boar and I will post them.....

Marksmen, Bullet performance on boar: This boar was close to 350lb and I fired 2 rounds of Hornady factory ammo using their 300gr XTP Mag bullet. The boar was feeding with his head down, facing me , about 40yds. I tried for a neck shot but was to far left and the bullet traveled under the skin in the fat to stop along side the lungs. He ran to my left and I hit him in the left lung with the bullet stopping under the skin of the right side as he dropped after a short run. The bullet through the lungs weighed 279.2grs losing 20.8grs. Thats the bullet on the left. The bullet on the right traveled under the skin and lost only 8.9grs.

Marksmen, More bullet performance on boar: I consider this to be my best boar taken with a handgun. This one weighed close to 400lb and was taken at Double Boar Ranch in western Pennsylvania a few years ago. I was sitting under a big pine when a group of boar came out of the heavy forest to feed. I was using my FA`s 454 loaded with Winchester ammo topped with a 260gr Partition. The shot was close ( 20yds ) with the boar quartered toward me. The bullet hit the left shoulder, through the lungs and stopping under the right side. Boar ran about 50yds and dropped. The 260gr Partition bulet worked perfectly with a recovered weight of 250.4grs losing only 9.6grs.....That was a fun hunt...

Congrats again The Bullets tell the tale the Horndays look good for there performance, the Winchester bullet is a great example of what a bullet SHOULD look like after travailing thru the boar or any other big heavy skinned animal finding it on the off side of the shot under the skin is the BEST load for a given kill shot, imagine if you had a super fast camera on the boar at the time of the shot, the stretching of the skin outward to retain that slug inside of the hide.
It could be another boar hunt in my future that big 500 S&W might be a fair choice to tote along.
James have you ever taken a boar with a lead cast slug?
Thanks again for the pictures of the slugs and yardages.
Ever had one chase you up a tree? I use to work for a gun store a had a customer come in and buy a Thunder Five ( 5 shot 45-70 revolver) after being chased up a tree, he hit the boar with a 300 win mag but I don`t know where he hit it but when he did it swung around came for him, in the excitement he dropped his rifle to get a grip on the tree and if he had a handgun he wouldn`t have had to wait for his buddy to come and finish the boar so he could get down, ah live and learn thanks again.

MARKSMEN, The last time I used a cast bullet on a boar was last year when I used a 440gr WN-GC in my 475 on a very large boar. He quartered towared me at 40yds. The bullet broke the left shoulder caught the heart and exited. The pig ran in a circle and dropped. Great performance.....

Elmer was right on target when he swore by heavy slower lead bullets for game the shocking power alone is devastating with the mushrooming of the lead giving a larger wound channel and even larger exit hole seems to be the best way to do things right everything that I have shot with a lead slug has gone down quickly or not out of sight of where I shot from, I can`t say that about copper jacketed bullets, my biggest disappointment was with my 50 Beowulf rifle it`s an AR style rifle made by Alexander Arms out of Va. three 325 gr open hollow points made by Speer went thru a 175lbs 6pt. buck, first one went thru the ribs just behind the front shoulder into the lungs and heart,Second was 1 inch from the first the third went between the shoulder blades as I was above him at that time he was running in a small valley beneath my stand, he left a blood trail that Stevie Wonder could follow for 175yards then piled up. In the process of skinning and cutting the meat I discovered that 1 and 2 went between ribs in and out the third just missed the back bone and took out a short rib on exit the only bone I hit.
I have called Alexander Arms and talked to Bill Alexander(great guy)he told me that the load was for heaver animals than deer I talked to him for 45 mins on loading the shell with a cast bullet but the action of the beast needs 1500 fps to operate the semi action of the AR the cast bullet I wanted to use won`t hold the rifling at that speed and also there`s the problem of leading the gas tube port so the Beowulf would be most excellent for boar but I won`t use it again for deer.

James I looked online at boar hunting in Penn. you have been on a few which place it the best bang for the buck, or a couple recomendations would be helpfull Marksman.

Marksmen,
             Sorry for the late reply. I take care of my 91 year old mom and things can get hectic around here......I`ve hunted 5 boar ranches in PA.Two of them are no longer around and of the other three , Tioga,which is in north central PA just below the NY state line, is the largest and the one I`ed recommend. The Pig Farm , in west central PA not far from the Ohio border, is a smaller operation with good quality boar with Eur-asian blood lines and also a great boar hunting operation. The third ranch I`ll leave nameless as his prices are double for the same boar you can hunt at the Pig Farm. James