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I remember in my youth watching an old farmer butcher a large hog in a pen. He put a 22 long rifle up against its head and shot it....and shot it and shot it. It did not slow it down much...and thrashed around wildly, screaming. If the farmer had been in the pen, it would have been pretty rough. He finally finished it with an axe. The entire thing was horrible, but taught me that a head shot with a small caliber was not the answer for an old hog.