First hog with the new 450B. 60 yard shot offhand using Hornady 250g FTX. Ran about 50 yards. Great bloodtrail. She sure is going to be tasty!
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commander faschisto wrote:The answer is: Bacon!
Hogslayer wrote:Yup you are right it was a pure lung shot. There were pieces of lung lying where I hit her. When I dressed her, there was a 2 inch diameter hole right through both lungs. There was lung even hanging out of the exit wound. The only way to bang flop a hog that works consistently is a spine or brain shot. Sometimes breaking the front shoulder will do it but it is unpredictable. I shoulder shoot them only when they are moving or if I am shooting offhand.
I killed a 300 lb boar this fall with a 223 with a shot behind the ear and he didn't even twitch. I made the mistake once of shoulder shooting a boar with the same rifle. The bullet hit the armor plate and deflected downwards, exiting the shoulder below the torso of the boar. He came after me. I learned that day that a properly motivated shooter can still find a hog in a 12x scope...All i could see was black hog. Shot number 7 dropped him about 10 feet from me. There were so many fatal wounds in him I don't know what finished him off. My nephew was watching from the truck. To quote him, "It sounded like WWIII out there." and "The rate of fire rapidly increased toward the end!"
That learning experience led me to acquire a 450 upper.
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