Impressive shot
An Alabama man killed an 820 pound wild hog. With a .38 revolver.
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July 19th, 2017 at 7:13 pm
That guy understood; placement beats bore size or power.
By contrast, someone put up a YouTube vid years ago of his daughter emptying a 9mm magazine at a similar hog, reloading and bang bang banging away until the poor animal eventually died. It wasn’t “hit the vitals” but just “hit the pig”. Stupid.
July 19th, 2017 at 9:20 pm
Beware the man with only one gun.
July 19th, 2017 at 11:32 pm
Graveyards all across the USA accommodate many unfortunate and deservedly folk who met their demise from a well placed shot from a 38 Special sidearm.
I could imagine that many feral hogs have met the same fate, too.
July 20th, 2017 at 12:25 pm
Big Hog, or small hippo?
July 20th, 2017 at 4:20 pm
I met a police officer who encountered a 500 lb hog that had fallen of a truck on an urban freeway. It was injured to the point where they had to put it down. He and his partner emptied their 9mm pistols, then reloaded, then reloaded again, then went to the trunk of their cruiser and got a couple of extra boxes of ammo. At the end of that the hog finally died. They had to go back to the station for more ammo.
I am sure this will trigger jokes about what terrible shots police officers are but with 200 rounds, they should have hit something.
vital. Ammo perhaps. Cops had JHPs. Anyone know if the AL guy was using FMJ or hard cast. Or perhaps the pig was the porcine equivalent of Cole Younger.
July 20th, 2017 at 4:53 pm
Richard; bad shots, or a failure to understand anatomy. Or both. Hard to say. I’ve read several similar reports of cops’ inability to bring down an injured animal, one resulting in the death of the animal’s owner when he could have dispatched the critter himself with one well-placed shot.
I don’t believe bullet expansion means much if you hit the heart (unless it’s a very large heart, e.g. a moose or larger), or the upper spine or brain pan. Hitting my deer last fall with a percussion revolver, there was no apparent bullet expansion (pure lead, wide flat point bullet too, at ~1K FPS) until the bullet flattened out against the far leg, breaking the humerous clean in two. One shot; it was down in five seconds, and dead as a door nail in less than ten seconds, with a wrecked heart, a broken leg and two wrecked lungs. No expansion through the chest, yet it doesn’t get any better than that without a brain shot. I’ve had many similar experiences with 50 cal (.495″), lead round ball at around 1,500; no expansion and a quick kill. Of course a deer (or most anything else) can run quite a ways in five to ten seconds. The ONLY “drop it in its tracks” shots I’ve ever gotten were CNS hits, where I “missed” high and dinged the spine. Some people target the base of the neck, and seem to do very well with that.
July 21st, 2017 at 4:04 pm
“The next day, Wade took the wild hog to Brooks Peanut Company and weighed it on the drive-thru scales. The hog tipped the scales at 820 pounds and had six inch tushes.”
*tusks
Funnier this way, though.