What number shot for 16 guage when hunting both squirrel and hog?

im hunting squirrel and hog tomorrow afternoon.i want to know what shot number will do the trick for both......i don't wanna have to buy 2 dif shot sizes...thanxWhat number shot for 16 guage when hunting both squirrel and hog?
Just get some number 2 shot. It won't tear a squirrel up, because less pellets will hit it. Keep your shots on hogs to less than 25 yards. This means you need to be up in a tree. If one happens to charge you while you're on the ground, unload right in its face.What number shot for 16 guage when hunting both squirrel and hog?
You will want #6 for squirrel. If you don't want to use slugs for the hogs and don't have an aversion to hogs chewing on you, you could hope that a hog would charge you and you could stick the barrel down its throat and then pull the trigger. Holding the barrel a couple of inches from its head would also work. Can you take a big knife? That might work better for the hogs. Some states have bizarre laws for hunting in WMAs and you may have to wait until deer season before you can hunt hogs with an appropriate firearm.
There's nothing out there that will work for both.





It's either having to buy 2 different types of shot or buying another gun completely. Using the load you'd use for squirrel would only tick a hog off, then you'd end up on the hog's supper table instead of the other way around.


I wouldn't use anything smaller than a .308 on a hog.








Added--


Also, a .22 isn't the proper caliber for a hog either


(figured I'd mention it while I thought of it)
no chance oen will work for both. #8 for squirrel, but it would only piss off a hog with it's thick skin and muscle mass. Slugs for hogs, backed by buckshot for close encounters, but they would destroy a squirrel.


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I can't say for sure, but I suspect that - if you're hunting squirrel for meat - that any shot you use on a squirrel will only moderately annoy a wild pig, and a load that would drop a hog would only leave bits of squirrel fur and a red stain. I would ask whoever you're going with for some advice.
You better plan on switching loads out quickly. You need buckshot or slugs for hogs and 6 or 7's if you want to eat the squirrel. I actually would sling a gun for hogs and hunt squirrels with a .22 heck you can kill a hog with a head shot with it, but you better be a good shot.
As fonz said. Pig - squirrel, slight size difference there. There`s no way around it,shot shells aren`t that much. Don`t know what kind of gun you have,but if it`s a pump just alternate your rounds. You can always eject one so your next is the same round if you have to.
You need 6 shot for the squirrel and buck shot for the hog. I would not rely on the 6 shot for the hog and the buck shot would leave nothing of the squirrel.. You simply can't put 5 pounds of poop in a 2 pound sack... You need two types of ammo... Sorry.