I love the Ruger #1, too, and I'm also partial to a nice Browning B78 or 1885, but I want a repeater for hog hunting. That's because the last pig I killed, a 170-pound male, was downright exciting. I didn't see him until he burst out of cover about thirty yards away and ran straight at me, fast, so he was only about ten yards from the muzzle when I fired. It wasn't a great shot -- low, through his left shoulder into his left ham -- but it changed his mind about running me down, and instead he started screaming and skipping around, jumping and zooming in circles right in front of me. My second shot just plain missed, and then he took off hell for leather into the trees and I had to run fast to catch him standing still for a second and put one into his neck and out his ear. So it ended okay, but it was pretty hairy, and I really don't know if it would have worked out if I'd had to hand-load each round. I was using a .308 bolt gun with a 1x-3x scope set on 1x.
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