Hog Gun
 

I'm thinking of saving up my money to build (To me) what could be the perfect hog gun.

I'm kind of torn between building a 300 Blackout upper (I already have a DPMS AR) and the CMMG Mutant.

I've heard good things about the Mutant, but have recently heard that CMMG doesn't have a good rep when it comes to quality control.

On the other hand, 300 Blk is pretty expensive, and at the moment I don't have the tools or knowledge to make the brass.

So, thoughts?

I hear the 6.5 is going strong, but the 6.8 is making a comeback sorta for a hog gun.

Did someone say "FAL"?

6.8 SPC would be more appropiate for hogs between the two 6mm AR- calibers.

.300 BLK is pretty awesome; however, I wouldn't incur the extra cost of it unless I was planning on suppressing it.

But, that being said, I haven't head much on the Mutant, but everything I have heard was kinda "meh"

For the record, my hog gun is a Marlin 336C in .35 Remington.

What about the Galil in 7.62x39?

Plus, I know the 30-30 Winchester will do the job just fine.

Check out these vids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ufSIb0CtgI - Hog Hunting in Georgia. This one features the guy using the Mutant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTmXyTuE5I - Hunting with an M240L

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKr-EDfPjns - Picking a good hog gun


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVRlgQmvcE

The only Galil I've ever played with was a FA 5.56 version at Benning. I was somewhat under whelmed by it.

And note that most of the IDF guys, including their commandoes are going towards an AR- platform rifle.

Also, I'm not a big fan of the 7.62x39 cartridge. And finding soft points might be problematic as well.

If you want to go semi auto for your bacon bullet thrower, I'd go with your original suggestion of the .300 BLK AR.

Or, you know, the old .30-30 kills hogs just as dead.

To be fair, the main gripe against the Galil appeared to be weight, especially compared to an M16.

I thought the IDF has been transitioning to the Tavor and X95s. I've been seeing less and less ARs

That's because they don't have to make or pay from them, just slap stuff together from the old parts the US sends over

Are you going to use this to put down feral hogs in your area as well? They can do a lot of agricultural damage.

Not just crop damage. They spread disease and can hurt people

I've heard some of these feral hogs can grow very large, and the population can grow very fast. Assuming the right kind of population management via hunters and trappers (who sometimes manage to catch entire "family groups" of hogs), how much feral hog meat gathered by these people is sent to soup kitchens and other subsidized food sources? I would think the hunters and trappers can't eat it all themselves without getting sick of pork.

Forget where they put the meat after they've killed them. There is such a hog problem down south that people welcome others to come from all over just to shoot as much as they want.

Go watch the vids I put down

Could very well be true. When I was at Benning, there was an IDF "operations group" there doing some cross training and also a group of IDF Armor guys going through the manuever center course.

Being the most worldly of my peers, I picked their brains every chance I got.

This was 2011, so the Tavor might not have been the new hotness yet.

And in regards to Hogs...my family raises cattle, soybeans, and corn.

They are nothing but a nuisance that threatens the family livelyhood. Kill them. Kill them all.

In 2009, the Tavor was selected to completely replace all weapon systems used by front line troops by 2018. So yeah, it would have been a gradual transition. he first Tavor (MTAR-21 variant) rifles were issued to new recruits of a main IDF infantry brigades in 2013, replacing the M-16 rifles