11-03-2019, 04:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2019, 08:22 PM by Double Naught Spy.)
Correction...130 gr. ELD-M. Too many boxes....
I had not seen hogs on this property in a while, but started off my evening there as my more productive properties of late are temporarily off limits due to deer hunting. Turns out to have been a decent decision and I bagged a 220 lb boar.
I believe I stalked this boar, twice, it having run off the first time, maybe due to me making too much noise coming through the brush to get to it. On the second attempt to make it to the same area, I took a different route and moved much slower and ended up surprised when the hog 'appeared' in front of me. I scanned, spotted the hog in the back of the woods a good ways, then worked on trying to move slowly through the brush for the next 20 yards and looked up and saw him directly in front of me and actually seeming to look at me. So I hastily set up my shot.
I had hoped from a large bone impact to see how it would perform but the bullet passed just behind the humerus and below the scapula. The bullet seems to have expanded/been expanding while passing through the muscles there and punched through an upper rib (#3 or 4), crossing the thoracic cavity, cutting the trachea and/or esophagus and at least one large blood vessel that I could feel. It was during this time that I wanted a photo of the transition from the muscles below the scapula to the rib cage that my phone slipped from my grip and dropped into the pooled blood. First rule of cadaver photography is not to drop your equipment into the corpse. All I can say is that I am glad my phone is 'waterproof.'
The bullet exited the thoracic cavity, clipping the 2nd rib on the left side and coming to stop behind the scapula/humerus shoulder joint. The core of the bullet had separated from the jacket apparently well before this point as the two parts had no matching sections. Often is the case when this happens that the core can be fitted in some way back to the jacket, but this was not the case despite the fact that the two were found together.
The bullet seemed to expand just fine and penetrated well enough to get the job done. Given the shot's location, I was surprised and pleased the hog dropped as it did. I was expecting the hog to run given what I was attempting to do. I think the severing of a major blood vessel next to the heart probably contributed significantly to this result.
[video=youtube_share;Bwu-PSttom4]https://youtu.be/Bwu-PSttom4[/video]
I had not seen hogs on this property in a while, but started off my evening there as my more productive properties of late are temporarily off limits due to deer hunting. Turns out to have been a decent decision and I bagged a 220 lb boar.
I believe I stalked this boar, twice, it having run off the first time, maybe due to me making too much noise coming through the brush to get to it. On the second attempt to make it to the same area, I took a different route and moved much slower and ended up surprised when the hog 'appeared' in front of me. I scanned, spotted the hog in the back of the woods a good ways, then worked on trying to move slowly through the brush for the next 20 yards and looked up and saw him directly in front of me and actually seeming to look at me. So I hastily set up my shot.
I had hoped from a large bone impact to see how it would perform but the bullet passed just behind the humerus and below the scapula. The bullet seems to have expanded/been expanding while passing through the muscles there and punched through an upper rib (#3 or 4), crossing the thoracic cavity, cutting the trachea and/or esophagus and at least one large blood vessel that I could feel. It was during this time that I wanted a photo of the transition from the muscles below the scapula to the rib cage that my phone slipped from my grip and dropped into the pooled blood. First rule of cadaver photography is not to drop your equipment into the corpse. All I can say is that I am glad my phone is 'waterproof.'
The bullet exited the thoracic cavity, clipping the 2nd rib on the left side and coming to stop behind the scapula/humerus shoulder joint. The core of the bullet had separated from the jacket apparently well before this point as the two parts had no matching sections. Often is the case when this happens that the core can be fitted in some way back to the jacket, but this was not the case despite the fact that the two were found together.
The bullet seemed to expand just fine and penetrated well enough to get the job done. Given the shot's location, I was surprised and pleased the hog dropped as it did. I was expecting the hog to run given what I was attempting to do. I think the severing of a major blood vessel next to the heart probably contributed significantly to this result.
[video=youtube_share;Bwu-PSttom4]https://youtu.be/Bwu-PSttom4[/video]
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