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Post by dougader on Aug 5, 2012 1:38:44 GMT -5
Shot this boar with a .45 Colt about a month ago. 335 grain WLN tight behind the shoulder, and down he went. What was your load with that 335, Whit?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2012 1:47:28 GMT -5
I agree with the WFNL boolits, I had a mold made for 2, a 340 for the bigger stuff, and the 250 for a general hunting load for smaller game like whitetail and such. I load 18 grn. 2400 and get around 1150 fps. with the 340 and 14 grn Blu Dot gets around 1250 with the 250 Boolit and both print to the same POI in the scoped SBBH. the 250 load will work for hogs but I would use the 340, both loads are very mild in the big Hunter! The loads in the pic are the 250's, but the 340 is almost identical just a little longer from crimp ring to nose to allow for optimum case capacity.
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Post by jwp475 on Apr 17, 2017 6:12:16 GMT -5
Very cool. I'll have to look into that. Underwood loads one as well that chronograph' right there as well
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Post by jfs on Jun 18, 2017 17:06:41 GMT -5
Sorry for the late reply...These three boar were taken with a .45 Colt... Two of them were dropped with a handload using a 260 gr. Partition over 21.5 grs. of 296 from a stainless Bisley while the other was taken with a blue 4 5/8" Bisley shooting a handload with a 280 gr. Saeco #454 over a stiff charge of H-110.... What was really interesting was the size of the exit made by the Partition as seen in the middle photo.... All of the 45 Colt loads worked....A great boar cartridge......
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Post by bradshaw on Jun 18, 2017 18:10:34 GMT -5
"I'm considering taking a boar hunt in Tennessee and would like to use one of my single actions in 45 Colt with a 255 gr. Keith style SWC at around 900 fps... I believe that load would have no problem with a boar, but have never shot one, or any other animal with that load..." ----E. J.
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E.J.... of the many things that factor into stopping power and killing power. size of animal is a big one. Just as there are deer, and then there are DEER, pigs range greatly in size, strength and tenacity. I would rather tackle a pig with a .44 Magnum loaded with run-of-the-mill 240 jacketed hollow point or soft point, or cast at 1,200 or 1,300 feet per second, than to stride into pig country armed with a .45 Colt loaded with a 250/255 SWC crawling along at 900 fps.
A little pig, O.K...
Not, however, a fully mature mother or father pig roaming the hills of Tennessee wearing filed teeth and shoulder pads. To enter handgun hunting against a potentially big animal with ammunition low on the totem pole increases the chance of wounding an animal, perhaps mortally, that you will never see again. No one should hit an animal----only to lose it----on their first big game handgun hunt. If you insist on holding your bullet to 900 fps, resolve----should you wound it----to track that animal to the end of the earth. Run it to ground like a Vermont deer tracker or Apache warrior.
Notice that a couple of responders hijacked your inquiry with loads stepping into the 1,200 to 1,300 fps bracket available to Ruger revolvers. Each one hundred feet per second added to a slow handgun round amplifies performance of a bullet which holds together. David Bradshaw
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Post by rangersedge on Jun 18, 2017 20:36:57 GMT -5
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Post by rangersedge on Jun 18, 2017 20:41:39 GMT -5
It is interesting to see the difference in hogs in the different pics.
Some clearly were domestic gone feral in past generations and others clearly show Russian heritage.
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Post by jfs on Jun 19, 2017 10:43:13 GMT -5
You got a good point there David about the 900fps SWC..... Even though that 280 grs CSWC I shot from the blue Bisley was running a couple hundred FPS faster, the boar was harder to put down, with decent shot placement, then the two that I used the Partitions on.....
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Post by sixshot on Jun 19, 2017 12:15:47 GMT -5
James old buddy, you have killed a lot of hogs & I keep begging you to shoot the correct alloy so that you will kill them quicker, cast will do it! Just match the alloy to the speed, that's the key with cast, almost everyone shoots cast that's too hard. Hard cast works against you, not for you, wish you were closer. The key is, shoot a cast bullet as soft as you can & still maintain accuracy, no more! That can be 1300 fps at 10-11 BHN with a powder coated cast. It will have a bigger meplat (nose) to start with than your Partition so it has a little edge already, run it at 1200-1300 fps, shoot that hog through both front shoulders & have ribs for supper.
Dick
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Post by COR on Jun 19, 2017 13:48:12 GMT -5
Damn James...It only took ya 5 years from the original post.
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Post by sixshot on Jun 19, 2017 19:34:00 GMT -5
Hey Curt, if he's shooting them that slow it might take 5 years for the bullet to get there.......
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Post by COR on Jun 19, 2017 20:23:11 GMT -5
I see his last post was in 2013... if you all had only responded more timely! He probably went out with that weak load and ran into a Tennessee pig that reads these forums and has an understanding of ballistics.
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Post by Cholla on Jun 19, 2017 22:59:02 GMT -5
I know these days it's paase' to not use a large revolver and a heavy load on game, but a buddy of mine happened upon this boar and whacked it with his S&W 69 at 44 yds. It's a wonder the boar died as at the time the revolver was loaded with a practice load consisting of a 240 gr. commercial SWC over a case full of Trail Boss. IIRC the MV is around 775 fps. (Hope you don't mind me posting this, Chris!) March of last year I happened upon this old sow with a bunch of babies. She succumbed to a 255 gr. SWC running around 950-975 fps out of a Uberti .44 Special. Range was 42 yds. So no reason why a 45 Colt with the load described wouldn't work.
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Post by sixshot on Jun 20, 2017 1:36:33 GMT -5
Succumbed, what do you mean succumbed, she was massacred! Maybe ya just got lucky, cast bullets don't kill. Good shooting & nice looking guns in both photo's!!
Dick
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Post by tradmark on Jun 20, 2017 9:12:16 GMT -5
Dick. That seems like a lot of work to get the hardness all set up for a given velocity range. What do you recommend for guys shooting commercial cast bullets? It would seem that the factory bullets wouldnt be to easy to attain that with. Maybe itd be easier to shoot those partitions james is blowing giant holes with.
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