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Post by mbaneacp on Nov 10, 2018 2:39:52 GMT -5
... to work well, kinda like a .357. We were runnung Fiocchi 180 JHPs and Federal Trophy 180 Trophy Bonded. Pigs be ough little buggers...shot one about 3/4 of an inch above the line between tehe eyes...shook his head and kept coming. Sort of like John Farnam's old joke about a guy getting shot in the head -- he might not get all the jokes, but he could still return fire!
Redhawk ran like a top -- a big clunky top, but there you are!
Michael B
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Post by coldtriggerfinger on Nov 10, 2018 4:20:48 GMT -5
How many rounds did it take to kill it ?
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Post by AmmoHouse on Nov 10, 2018 12:29:50 GMT -5
Need pics!
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Post by matt56 on Nov 10, 2018 16:02:44 GMT -5
I have been looking for the Federal trophy bonded locally but can't find any.
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Post by mbaneacp on Nov 13, 2018 2:53:23 GMT -5
Quick reply...de rounds depended on de pig. Did a nice clean heart shot on a big sow, and she dropped like her legs were jerked out from under her. The one I head- shot took another 2 rounds...I could have waited for the head shot to do its work, but I didnt want him to have a lasr spurt of energy and make the swamp. Two on an other pig coming straight at me.
Whould like to come out here with my JR500 shooting .50 special loads, see how that works.
Michael B
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Post by pennsylvaniaboy on Jan 19, 2019 9:11:15 GMT -5
not a fan of the redhawk i guess?
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 19, 2019 11:09:46 GMT -5
"...shot one about 3/4 of an inch above the line between tehe eyes...shook his head and kept coming.”
----Michael Bane
*****
Michael.... decades ago, before silhouette came about, my shooting partner Ed Verge and I lead a big sow out of his barn, to wash her down with snow, which was 3 feet deep, a scene she didn’t like. Such attention to her hygiene was unusual, which activated her nerves. We guided her back into the barn, to an area of clean hay and sawdust. "You do it,” says Ed . Whereupon my Model 19 snakes out from under canvas coat, triggering a 158 JHP to the brainpan----about the same place you did----the ridge off thick bone which protects the knowledge box from frontal assault. Bullet gouges a cigar-butt trough of skin, ricochets into the heavy planking above our heads. Pig shakes her head, stunned, like she’d taken a good punch. Recovering from my own shock, I re-holster, to draw a World War II Marble MK II navy knife.... slipping the blade level, straight into neck. Pig spins a 180, runs onto sawdust pile to collapse and bleed out. The whole maneuver quiet.
Turns out the 158 JHP strikes ridge of tank armor called a pig’s forehead at a 30-45 degree angle, to ricochet. When we sawed the animal in half, we found no cracks in skull bone, a 1-1/2” thick wedge, nor any evidence of bruising on the brain. Although, of course, we had sawed through the brain.
You picked about the smallest, thickest, target on the whole animal,
David Bradshaw
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Post by bula on Jan 19, 2019 11:23:12 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with the RH except somebody drilled the wrong sized holes in it. LOL. Glad it ended well. Understand the I just want to thing.
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Post by bula on Jan 19, 2019 11:27:58 GMT -5
This just might be the exact niche for one of those all copper bullets with the philips head type meplat ? A "cordless drill" type loading.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jan 19, 2019 15:03:10 GMT -5
Ditto, Bradshaw’s remarks!!!!......frontal head shot in the classic “between the eyes” area is not a good place to brain a hog. Better is earhole, or halfway between earhole and eyehole. Here a 22lr is sufficient out to 30 yards or so, have done it many times when abating ferals with night vision.
Trapr
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Post by coldtriggerfinger on Jan 19, 2019 15:58:04 GMT -5
Same thing with a brown bear. Plenty of guys have got chewed shooting them between and just above the eyes with the 300 Whby, 300 Win, 30/06 ect.
Now a 416 or 458 busts their head open in a very nice way.
Hence my disdain for the 30 caliber.
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Post by jfs on Jan 19, 2019 16:11:35 GMT -5
That skull is like a skid plate.... 
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