Another big boar down...

[86er]

... for me and Ricky. This guy has been terrorizing our property, keeping other animals out of the food plots. Luckily, he consistently came out in daylight between 5PM and 6PM. Today was his last day out. At not quite 100 yards, Ricky put a 140 gr Nosler Accubond from his 7mm-08 in him and he went down. Not to waste the opportunity, I shot two 170 gr Nosler Partitions traveling 2375 fps from my 300 Savage into his shoulder. The boar weighed around 250 pounds. We were very surprised to see the thickness of his hide - over 3/4 of an inch! The .284 Accubond travelled around 14 inches, slightly front to back. It weighs 94 grains or 67% weight retention and is .529. One .308 Partition went 14 or 15 inches through shoulder bone and left a dent in the hide on the opposite side. It weighs 89.9 grains and expanded to .619. The other hit slightly higher and broke shoulder and leg bone before sticking to the hide in the opposite shoulder. It weighs 94 grains and expanded to .589. The Partitions retained an average of 53.5% of their weight. Both of these results are on par with what Nosler said and are consistent with bullets we recovered in the past. Overall, good performance on a tough critter.

Note the hide that is nearly an inch thick behind the shoulder:

Nosler Partition 170 gr RN:



Hog killer extraordinaire:

[pwl44m]

Nice Job Joe , or Ricky. That looks like some mighty Lean Pork.

[Griff]

Excellent!

[Bigahh]

Nice shooting Boys! Enjoy the Pork Chops

[kimwcook]

Sounds like he got everything he deserved for making a pig out of himself. Good job! Thanks for the report, Joe. Nice shooting, Ricky.

[Nath]

Nice work

That is some thick hide!

Nath.

[TedH]

Good job guys!

[Rusty]

Like the song says, if you're cookin a hog you better start about 3 in the morning.

Nice work.

[Rube Burrows]

Nice hog. I sure would love to kill me some TX hogs one of these days.

[foxtrapper]

Nice going Joe! Hope your giving yourself a chance to heal. Chronic pain is easy to tuff out at first when your young ,then the years pile up and it's no fun Question, The Ricky you hunt with is that the same Ricky you brought to Maine on the bear hunt? If not how's taxidermy Ricky doing?

[Birdman]

Thanks for the preformance detail of the bullets. Now enjoy supper.

[crs]

Good show.
Now if we can shoot or trap that Jaguarundi and show it off, people will beleive it is not just a bobcat.

Note pictures of Texas Jaguarundi:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=ja ... 62&bih=555

[awp101]

3/4" hide? I may just bring my -06 and be done with it!

[Ysabel Kid]

Tough critter indeed! What cha' doing Joe - breeding them with rhinos?

[piller]

Thick, tough hide, but certainly not bullet proof. Maybe next time you can let Ricky try out the 300 grain flat nose soft points from his .45 lc levergun on a big hog and find out what those Speer bullets on live game.

[missionary5155]

Greetings and well done !
Another good piggy headed to the table.