Aiming point for hogs, 25-06 & 7mm Rem Mag

Depends. If you're in a relatively open area and can track them, there's nothing wrong with putting the bullet right in the heart/lung area and follow a potentially minimal bloodtrail to your pig. In thicker vegetation, I prefer to "neck" shoot them. I put neck in quotes because it seems to me that pigs don't really have necks. Anyway, shoot them about 2" below and behind the ear and you'll break the spine, dropping them where they stand. At closer ranges, this is what I like to do. When shooting farther, I go for the heart/lung shot because I like the larger target area on a critter that rarely stands still - gives more margin for error.
 
I always shoot for the neck. They drop right there. I don't shoot the heart/lung because the shoulders are so good slow roasted in a crockpot. If you do, keep in mind their heart is not where a deer's heart is. It's much further forward and lower than you would think. Shooting them behind the shoulder gets lungs only and if you shoot too far back your in the liver. Never had to shoot long range at a hog. They are too blind not to sneek up on.
 
Slugger, the 7 Mag loaded with 154g Hornady SP with 72.0g of R#25, Win Mag primer will shoot a hole straight through both boar's hogs shoulders.
 
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Slugger, the 7 Mag loaded with 154g Hornady SP with 72.0g of R#25, Win Mag primer will shoot a hole straight through both boar's hogs shoulders.



You are very right... I got one good shot at a sow about 125 yrds out. 7mm rem Mag, 140gr Barnes X @3400fps, goes in and out in a flash! dead hog laying there at 25 yards, with a shot just behind the shoulder.
 
I prefer the neck shot. Anything between the shoulder and the head will generally put them down right there. Even thru the shoulder generally prevents hogs from going anywhere. I have shot several hogs behind the shoulder with the 7 mag and some run, some don't go anywhere. The problem with the ones that run is they don't leave much of a blood trail. They usually don't go far, but still can be tough finding them when there isn't any blood. I shoot nothing but 140gr. Barnes TSX in my 7 mag. Check out my post titled "5 hogs", the big boar I shot went about 120yds, never bled with the bullet going right behind the shoulder. We didn't find him until the next morning because there was no blood. Had I hit him a few inches more forward, he would have dropped right there. Trust me neck shoot, I have lost a few hogs that I felt were hit good because I never found blood.
 
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