What Glen said!

by rob , Monday, November 18, 2013, 21:22 (4028 days ago) @ Glen

I have shot a truckload of them with rifles from 270, 30-06 and 45-70. I shot one with a .44 Mag using 24 grains of H110 and 240 grain Sierra JHC bullets...SIX TIMES, first shot in the shoulder at 20 yards, fell into Cow House Creek on his back and I swear he bled so much it looked like the Nile when Moses struck it with his staff. I had my gun put away about to go claim my prize when he started kicking, got up and started staggering up the bank to were he was when I shot him. Pulled the sixgun and popped him at the base of the neck right between and above the shoulder blades. He looked like lightning hit him and down he slid into the creek again. He got up faster this time and turned toward me. I shot him again between his right shoulder and neck and down he went for the third time. He got up again plainly looking at me with some serious anger issues this time and started dragging himself toward me and I popped him on the top of his head. Again, lighting strike and he was slammed into the water in convulsions. Back up again but ready to forget me, he turns to the other bank and gets shot two more times and he got UP two more times. By now he was at the bank, barely able to drag himself yet he made it about 50 yards to a tree where he circled several times and laid down. By now, Scott and Shawn had come to see what kind of battle was going on so we went to the tree and followed a good blood trail probably 200 yards, a diminishing blood trail another couple hundred practically on hands and knees and then lost him. I will not go after hogs with a handgun smaller than .40 caliber and IF I ever use another jacketed bullet on one it will start at 300 grains in the .44. I'm pretty sure if I'd hit him the first time with a 250 Keith he'd have been food on the table with one shot. To say I'm not impressed with the terminal performance of Sierra JHP pistol bullets is an understatement. I know it' wasn't the best choice for pigs but it's what I had loaded on hand at the time...lesson learned.