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Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack
Best heavy brush/close range/hands-and-knees wild hog gun I ever saw was a good - shooting lever action or rolling block .45-70. As Elgin Gates once said about big-bore cartridges for rhino and Cape buffalo, "Make the first one count, because he'll never feel the second one."
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That's probably right. There are hog hunters who use nothing but those short barrel lever action Marlins in 45-70. The recoil on those things will rock you back.
Lots of talk about 10ga's.
Here is a CH 10damascus /12 Bernard on a 2 frame. The 10's are light 26" uplands and the 12's are heavy fowlers. With the 10's the gun is a tad over 8lbs.