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Wow, you have some seriously good hog hunting opportunities.
I have 1200 acres in Georgia I can hunt except for Oct,Nov,Dec. It is a deer lease but I pay to hog hunt in the off season.
It is good land and has a lot of hogs but it is a paper Company lease and they have cut a bunch of it over the last five years. It makes it really hard to pattern the hogs even with a feeder with the near constant tree cutting and land clearing.
The deer hunters shoot a few pigs and a couple of guys have a corral trap and they will trap 15 or 20 a year for meat and to try to keep the population in check.
I hunt them a lot with a G40 but I like to hunt them with other stuff just for fun. I have an AR pistol in.300 Blackout and an AR rifle in 7.62X39. I have killed them with a Marlin 45-70 and a Longbow.I started loading in 1976 with the original Lee Loader. I progressed to an RCBS Rock Chucker that I still use for rifle rounds today.
I am a competitive shooter and continuously reload to keep up with my hobby. If I was starting over I would buy a big Dillon but my Lee Classic Turret keeps up. I load a couple of hundred every week just to stay stocked up.
I have or do load for 9mm, .38spl/357, .45acp, 10mm, .243, .223, .308, 30-06, 30-40 Krag, 45-70, 32 Win Spl, 7.62×39,
30 carbine, 303 British and probably some I can’t remember.The savings right now is tremendous for hunting rifle rounds, 9m is almost a wash right now even using range pick up brass.
I started loading in 1976 right after I got married and moved into an apartment. I used one of those little Lee Loaders where you beat everything together, loading for my .41 mag Blackhawk.
I am not an experimenter, I found Longshot works well in my 10MM’s and I stayed with it. I load mostly Hornady 180 gr XTP or HAP and never had any problems with it.
I went through a pound of Blue Dot and it was fine too but I never tried anything else.I had a Tisas BR9 High power copy and it was a great gun.
About a year ago I bought a Tisas .45 Commander size and it has been great from the get go.
Two problems with the Tisas 1911’s seem to be it needs a stronger safety spring and the extractors need reshaped or replaced.I bet the 10mm version is a real gem and I would love to have one.
I have had a Glock 40 with red Dot and TLR1 Light for about 7 years as my hog hunting guns.
It has been Glock reliable and killed a dozen hogs or so, one shot, one stop with handloaded Hornady XTP’s.
I have never really liked the feel of it, or any Glock, even though I own a half dozen.I also had a G29 that I carried while clearing trails, filling feeders or hanging out on the 1200 acres I hunt pigs on. I actually stumbled on a pig or two close up and killed them but as I said not a big Glock guy.
I sold the G29 and bought the SA XDM Elite 3.8 10mm and made it do the G29’s work.
I was interested in the Sig XTEN after reading an article in one of the gun magazines I get but held off as I have two holsters that fit my G40 and I would have to buy new ones but the other night I got to handle a XTEN and it fit my smaller hands so much better. The guy that owned it said it was accurate as heck and he had had no0 malfunctions.
I ordered one and waiting on it to show up. I will Red Dot it right away as my old eyes are poor with open sights.