I am a very small, slightly built man. I don’t like recoil. I hunt deer with an ancient .243 Winchester Model 70 (Actually Labeled Sears Model 53.) My Dad bought it, and decided it “was too weak,” and later bought a .30-06. My bigger, stronger brother got the .30-06 when Dad died. I got the .243.
I have shot two deer with it, in Angeles National Forest. (I have a friend who is a Ranger, and he locates me the spot—I am myself not much of a natural hunter.)

But I have been looking at the Hunting Regulations. I notice here in California, you can hunt Wild Boar all year around. You simply need a pig tag. And unlike the Deer Tag system in California where you can only hunt in a certain country sized area, you can hunt wild boar anywhere you want. And there are lots of guides, for people like me with no natural hunting ability.

So my question is, would a .243 work on wild boar? I am recoil sensitive, and anything much larger would be sort of out of the question for me. Also, I already have a .243, and I don’t want to spend more money on another gun. I also inherited a .30-30, but that kicks like a mule,nearly knocks me down, and has no scope, so I can’t hit anything with it past about 40 yards (I am not that great a shot, particularly with open sights.)