Looking for a hog gun.

Get a Marlin Guide Gun. It is inexpensive, light, easy to use, quick to bring to bear on the target, and very accurate out to 100 yards with a peep or ghost site, let alone a scout scope if scopes are your thing. The lever action allows for faster follow up shots than you will get from a bolt action rifle and nearly as fast as from a semi-auto.

Power is a non issue with this gun as it is a bit of overkill for this purpose. High-end retail or hand loads will take a Cape Buffalo in one shot, and can even be used for elephant if you don't have anything better. Compared to that boar is kind of a joke. Normal 45-70 non-expanding ammo will give you full penetration through a boar lengthwise, even it it hits some bone along the way. Also because it is a .458 caliber bullet the wound channel is bigger (for faster bleedout) than with .30-30 and similar rifle ammo. Especially if you use an expanding bullet that can still give you full penetration. Speaking of which....

If it were me I would use a Guide Gun + Buffalo Bore item 8B:

http://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=151

I honestly think that would be the perfect dedicated hog rifle setup.
 
your Savage 99 in 308 should be great! but if you must have a new/used gun

Marlin lever in 35 REM, 375 WIN, 444 Marlin, or 1895 in 45-70

all "fast handling" and puts em down "right now!" my .02 cents
 
I've long been a fan of the Marlin 336 in 35 Remington. I could really throw some lead with the one I had. That'd be great for pigs. Another option would be a compact bolt gun, like the Remington Model 7 or my Ruger Compact. Something like a 260 or a 7MM-08 in an easy handling short rifle would allow for pig shots out beyond what the 35 can do - which is the reason I finally put down the 35. I like my short little rifle so much that I might get the barrel on my Ruger Hawkeye 223 shortened to 20 inches. And I can throw some lead with the bolt gun too, though I find that I lose cases when I get going on the hogs, and I hate to lose those prepped cases.
 
Like plumbernater's dad, my '94 Marlin drops most of them like a rock. I prefer solid bullets, most hollowpoints will come unglued and lose mass/penetration. Mine is zeroed to 100yds. and shoots just over an inch high at 50, drops 14.5"s at 200. I use this rifle in the heavy stuff where I can rarely see 50yds.

A .308 has very similar ballistics to a 30-06 out to about 600yds., you can check ballistics at any cartridge manufacturers site.
 
The Springfield Armory Socom 16 just might be the best hog gun there is,in my opinion.Shorter than a Marlin 336,and packs a .308 punch with a 20 round capacity.
 
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