12-24-2019, 02:12 PM
Well, I made the rookie mistake of thinking my first shot would drop my first target cleanly and I was transitioning to pick up a second target before realizing my first wasn't down. It is a sort of gamble. If you transition quickly, you are more apt to pick up other runners. If you stay on target and verify the hog is down, you can deliver a follow-up shot more quickly and then try to pick up runners, but if the hog goes right down, then you wasted time watching it when you could be on target elsewhere.
Turns out, shot #1 would have been fine. The hog was mortally wounded and wasn't apt to last long, but I did not know this until cutting it open. So I spent time trying to make sure it didn't get away and putting it out of its misery and the piglets got away cleanly. Two of the four Speer Gold Dot bullets were recovered. They expanded nicely and had great weight retention. The other two shots exited.
[video=youtube_share;Anx9WrFxhBs]https://youtu.be/Anx9WrFxhBs[/video]
Turns out, shot #1 would have been fine. The hog was mortally wounded and wasn't apt to last long, but I did not know this until cutting it open. So I spent time trying to make sure it didn't get away and putting it out of its misery and the piglets got away cleanly. Two of the four Speer Gold Dot bullets were recovered. They expanded nicely and had great weight retention. The other two shots exited.
[video=youtube_share;Anx9WrFxhBs]https://youtu.be/Anx9WrFxhBs[/video]
Kill a hog. Save the planet.
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