Originally Posted By: Irish26Originally Posted By: ChupathingyA customer at my gun counter one day said that he shot a hog(unknown weight) 3 times inside a hundred yards with a "7 Mag" and the hog never flinched. I wasn't there to see it, but if that is true.......
I've killed truckloads of 200-250lb'ers with a 55gr Barnes TSX and lately have been using the Winchester 64gr XT.
Chupa Well, if he shot the 7mm and it ran away, he missed the pig.Uh, I think that was the gist of his post; i.e., skepticism.
The "beasts" aren't that "tough." They're a thin-skinned mammal with a brain, heart, lungs, and endoskeleton. Nothing complicated about that.
This one was felled by a .223 loaded with a 55-grain Sierra 1455 BlitzKing traveling at 3011 FPS. (About 1106 LB-FT of muzzle energy.) Distance was about 100 yards; the hog humped up and ran 20 or so yards before piling up in tall grass.
This one went down with one shot from a Winchester 45-grain JHP 3600 FPS Wal-Fart "value pack" .223 factory load. (About 1294 LB-FT of muzzle energy.) Distance was slightly over 100 yards. He jumped and ran a very short distance before piling up in not-so-tall grass.
This one went down after being hit with a 7x57mm loaded with a Speer 145-grain 1629 Hot-Cor loaded to (I think) 2600 FPS. (About 2174 LB-FT of muzzle energy.) He went down immediately, got up, made his way back in the brush about 20 feet or so from where he was shot, where he collapsed -- very dead.
It doesn't take a freight train to kill a hog, nor does it take a lot of complications or slide rule calculations. As long as I can hit the target and have a reasonable expectation of penetrating a vital organ, I don't sweat the rest of the details.