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I was fascinated by this article, hope you guys enjoy.
http://www.shakariconnection.com/bullet-wounds.html
Hell yea
This is not an attempt to stomp on your thread FordGuy nor for myself to shine in any way, but this article was a good find. Ford guy if you could add (bullet choice foundation) to the thread title and Karma tacks it ,all of us would be better off not seeing another 'what do I use' post. I gave this thread alot of time for replies and with none.....so here it goes.
I'm not beating on my chest here but I'm headed to my 1000th trip.
At the start Kat and I used Encores in 223, 300 Win Mag then resorted to her 308 and a 45-70 still in Encore platform.
We've had the times with the hogs and killed alot, We used barnes bullets mostly and with our caliber choice there wasn't any big deal.
The red tipped V-Max 5.66 is for comparrison.
Then I started getting people looking me up to help with there hog problem. Using single shots killing one two at a time and the thought after getting charged we sold all but the 308 because of expensive porting work and switched to AR platform.
This is when we started to loose hogs....shooting them and they just run off for hundreds of yards. It didn't matter to us we were in our own world being so that we never took pics. The run offs didn't matter either because death was the final outcome and we were doing our job, what we were ask to do.
Its not like we didn't try barnes in the AR's, these are what we have left-over.
At the end of 07 we got this lap top and finding the hog, getting the pic of the kill mattered after joining several forums and ending up here.
If you hunt deep woods with alot of brush I'd pick barnes 1st, for what The Red Goat said 'grazing fire' but then ask yourself 'Do I want to shoot a hog at point blank and have the bullet just cut thru' or ' do I want to do the most interal damage leaving the bullet inside to deliver all its energy'
I'D PICK THE LOWEST WEIGHT BARNES , EVEN TIPPED FOR QUICKER OPENING AND LESS PENTRATION IN EACH CALBER CHOICE FOR HOGS.
I tested the 140 RRLP barnes (AR-10) and recovered one of two 48.5 grain 27 cal. cylinders in the 6th gallon laundry jug the other exited the side . the first jug didn't even move and had a straight thru 30 cal. hole. I found all the brass in the 4th jug. (these bullets are on the bottom left of last pic above) This test was After I shot a hog and I know it was on and didn't hear the thump or wack sound and the hog just walked off.
Ask your self if ' i miss and these two 48.5 grain cylinders go flying what could happen'
I'm not affiliated with bullet people but hello speer and hornady,lol. Speer hollow point varmint 130's are my choice for 308 but K-max's 150 gr. 308 rem.cor-lock are better but I couldn't get the speed wanted from them and just damn the V-max they are the shit in 5.56, 6.8 and after my hunt with a fellow using a 6.5 grendal, in that to. there is no mushroom to push anything there is a explosion tearing tissue up.
60 GR. V-Max 5.56 from 50 yards the hog went 2 foot....straight down and the shot wasn't behind the ear.
Same bullet and rifle, K-max said 96 or 98 yards the hog went in a 6 foot circle, with this off placed shot. way to go Kat.
I know that there is not always time to put shot placement first.
EastTxHunter uses a 1-7 twist with a different 5.56 bullet but its bad ass, I can't call it now???
THERE IS ROOM FOR ERROR IN SHOT PLACEMENT USING V-MAX AND HEAVER CONSTRUCTED VARMINT BULLETS, THEY CAUSE QUICKER, WIDER TISSUE DAMAGE. AS FRITZCAT SAYS YOU WANT THE SHOCK AND AWWWWWW.
Additions and comments needed... like the ol' saying the proof is in the puddin.