>pisgah, thanks for checking on that - but my hunting buddies and I only have access to WMA land here near the beach (places with hogs near here are Woodbury, Waccamaw, >and Francis Marion) ... hence the interest in a powerful rimfire.


Understood. Don't neglect, though, to seek out landowners and ask permission to hunt. We don't have much in the way of hogs in my county, but I have gotten permission to hunt coyotes on five private tracts just this week! That gives me a total of 17 tracts now, ranging from 50 to 800 acres apiece. When it comes to hogs and dogs, people are eager to have them controlled. Once they get used to my coming and going and know I can be trusted, many of them will let me come back for deer and turkeys, too.