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How about a good old .30-'30 levergun? Short and handy for a little one, but perhaps not easy for her supervisor to see when it's loaded.
My choice would be a CZ 527 carbine in 7.62x39 with a 4x scope, or a Burris FastFire or Docter red dot sight.
The 7.62x39 round is ballistically similar to the thutty-thutty, the rifle is short, light and handy, but a nice safe look-inside bolt action. My 527 was/is a big favourite with my younger nephew. He's a smallish 15yo now, but the carbine was already a good fit for him 3-4 years ago.
I'm of two minds about recoil brakes. They do reduce the "felt" recoil but the come with increased muzzle blast for the most part.
If you make sure the mini-Minion was double stuffed during training, plugs and muffs, it would probably work.
You can kill feral hogs with a .223. I believe that Winchester makes a 64 grain round called the "Razorback XTP" esp. for that.
Remington has a similar round. The caveat is range and bullet placement. It is mosty people who want to hunt with the AR's that they have that do this.
Considering the size of the tusk and the photo of a Russian Boar/Feral hog mix that a buddy showed me I'd want a .45-70 with a flat nose hard lead bullet in it. It took him 2 rounds of .358 Winchester and 1 insurance shot to put it down. His first shot was quartering at around 200 yards though.
toad wrote:I'm of two minds about recoil brakes. They do reduce the "felt" recoil but the come with increased muzzle blast for the most part.
If you make sure the mini-Minion was double stuffed during training, plugs and muffs, it would probably work.
You can kill feral hogs with a .223. I believe that Winchester makes a 64 grain round called the "Razorback XTP" esp. for that.
Remington has a similar round. The caveat is range and bullet placement. It is mosty people who want to hunt with the AR's that they have that do this.
Considering the size of the tusk and the photo of a Russian Boar/Feral hog mix that a buddy showed me I'd want a .45-70 with a flat nose hard lead bullet in it. It took him 2 rounds of .358 Winchester and 1 insurance shot to put it down. His first shot was quartering at around 200 yards though.
The biggest hog I ever killed (345 lbs, dressed) was killed with a .22LR. He got me hemmed up, no way around him, so I got a big beech tree between us, and put one right between his eyes at a range of about 15 feet. He folded up like a cheap pocket knife. I wasn't hunting hog that day, I was hunting squirrels. Looking up, not down. Scared the hell out of me.
I don't recommend the .22LR for hog, but it does illustrate that bullet placement is paramount.
toad wrote:I'm of two minds about recoil brakes. They do reduce the "felt" recoil but the come with increased muzzle blast for the most part.
If you make sure the mini-Minion was double stuffed during training, plugs and muffs, it would probably work.
You can kill feral hogs with a .223. I believe that Winchester makes a 64 grain round called the "Razorback XTP" esp. for that.
Remington has a similar round. The caveat is range and bullet placement. It is mosty people who want to hunt with the AR's that they have that do this.
Considering the size of the tusk and the photo of a Russian Boar/Feral hog mix that a buddy showed me I'd want a .45-70 with a flat nose hard lead bullet in it. It took him 2 rounds of .358 Winchester and 1 insurance shot to put it down. His first shot was quartering at around 200 yards though.
The biggest hog I ever killed (345 lbs, dressed) was killed with a .22LR. He got me hemmed up, no way around him, so I got a big beech tree between us, and put one right between his eyes at a range of about 15 feet. He folded up like a cheap pocket knife. I wasn't hunting hog that day, I was hunting squirrels. Looking up, not down. Scared the hell out of me.
I don't recommend the .22LR for hog, but it does illustrate that bullet placement is paramount.
When I was butchering the hog I got in the fall, i found a 22 slug just under the skin on its ham. It looked like it had been there a while as there was no evidence of a wound in the hide that I could see.
The 8mm slug on the other hand went in just behind the shoulder and out behind the other shoulder. Of course if all you have is a 22, it is better than nothing.
