Post by 45spades on May 14, 2020 9:35:28 GMT -5
Well....my buddy suggested we go and check his hog trap yesterday. So, we ride in for a good ways on the side by side to get to the trap. There were 9 hogs in there. Two had committed sooieeeecide. 5 of the other 7 got lead poisoning. I took my ex mother in law to help. She uglied to death the meat hogs and tore up the meat so bad it was inedible. I swear she tainted then too.
We had a couple of 22’s and I had my 44 Special. The special was loaded with Matt’s 275 grain HPGC. I had 17 grains of H4227 pushing that bullet. I suspect a velocity of 950-1050 fps. The impact of this load was tremendous. These were 25 to 100 pound pigs. Of course the small ones just flopped over. I shot one a little back and it fell over. It wasn’t dead but it was immobilized. It died quickly. The others showed similar signs when hit. I wasn’t able to perform a necropsy on any of the pigs. I intend to make a closer examination on the performance of this load as soon as I get my own hog trap up and going.
I do have some pics of someone can help me post!
We had a couple of 22’s and I had my 44 Special. The special was loaded with Matt’s 275 grain HPGC. I had 17 grains of H4227 pushing that bullet. I suspect a velocity of 950-1050 fps. The impact of this load was tremendous. These were 25 to 100 pound pigs. Of course the small ones just flopped over. I shot one a little back and it fell over. It wasn’t dead but it was immobilized. It died quickly. The others showed similar signs when hit. I wasn’t able to perform a necropsy on any of the pigs. I intend to make a closer examination on the performance of this load as soon as I get my own hog trap up and going.
I do have some pics of someone can help me post!
