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I've a lot of respect for pigs and wouldn't like to tackle them with anything less than a .243 but a .375 H&H makes an awful mess of them like it did on my first warthog. The .270gr Failsafe (I wasn't just hunting pigs!) shattered its right shoulder and exited its left hind quarter. Luckily, all I wanted were the tusks!
Bighammer, the 375 is not what tore your warthog apart, but the crappy bullet you were useing! In the first place, the ony real bullet for the 375 H&H is a quality 300 gr bullet of a soft, or solid, no matter the target! I've shot warthog with a 375 H&H useing a 300 gr Nosler Partition, and Barnes super solids (MONO-METEL), and you could mount a full body mount with one stitch, on each side, to close the bullet holes, and eat right up to the bullet hole! High velocity, and rapid expansion is what destroys meat, and capes, not bullet diameter! 
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Re: 375h&h affectiveness