E-TIPS or pointed TSX

[Richracer1]

Good luck Greg. My fun gets to start Sunday when my 'Smith comes into town with my 243, 7RUM and 375RUM. Had him work his magic on the triggers. I requested all three get set 2.5 lbs. My apt looks like a shooting lab with all of the ammo boxes of load developement rounds I have made up.

 

[Greg Nolan]

Sounds like my kind of place :grin:

 

[Colin]

I shot a 275 pound wild hog in Central California a few months ago with my .300 Win Mag with handloaded 180gr E-tips. The shot was at about 85 yards, downhill and he was running away. The first shot hit right on the spine about 2/3rds back. The bullet shattered 4 vertibrea, travled under the hide and up into the front shoulder. There awas a 4 inch, oblong, entry hole and the bullet did not penetrate the spine. The second shot hit next to the first, but missed the spine. Also left an oblong 3-4 inch entry hole and I found the bullet in the hogs mouth. Both bullets expanded beautifully and retained a ton of weight. I was really impressed with the performance. I'm guessing I got more than 2 feet of penetration from both bullets. Maybe i can talk Pop into uploading some photos for me.

I've also shot a couple of coyotes with the 90gr 6mm E-Tip from my .243. Both exit wounds were about the size of a quarter. One coyote was shot at about 40 yards and the other just over 100 yards. My buddy shot a coyote at just under 200 yards with his 7-08 with the 7mm E-Tip. Same results, about a quarter sized exit hole.

 

[FOTIS]

Posting for Colin....

Here piggy, piggy.

 

[Greg Nolan]

Colin
Thanks for the info. It sounds like the e-tips are going to work out real well. I am enthused
I've hunted central California long enough to know that boar you got is a BIG one. That size is hard to find and hard to kill. How long were the tusks on him? It also looks like a second hog behind you and it aint too shabby either. Congrats :grin:

 

[Richracer1]

Colin
Thanks for the info. It sounds like the e-tips are going to work out real well. I am enthused
I've hunted central California long enough to know that boar you got is a BIG one. That size is hard to find and hard to kill. How long were the tusks on him? It also looks like a second hog behind you and it aint too shabby either. Congrats :grin:

Yep, that size is hard to find in CA, but not that hard to get if you can place your shot well. For instance, I currently have the Vandenberg AFB record for a hog at 288lbs gutted. I shot him with my 45 cal muzzleloader using Precision Rifle saboted 40cal 180gn bullets. Fortunately for me, he standing still, quartering away at about 120yds. It dropped him in his tracks. He was still kicking so I gave him another lead injection at the back of his head. I was able to retrieve the first bullet, but never got the second one which didn't exit. Anyway, good shooting Colin, running game are tough to get.

 

[Colin]

He was a big hog. I actually mounted him myself (as I'm starting a taxidermy business here in Central California) I'm sick of paying more than $500 for deer mounts and wasn't about to pay $800 for a hog mount. The mount actually turned out pretty good and I'll be concentrating on the working man...$350ish for deer and $400ish for hogs. I've completed two coyote mounts and the hog and am working on a whitetail right now. Anyways...

He had tusks that were 2.5 inches and 2.75 inches. We took 4 hogs on that trip with Twissleman Outfitters. They have a great set-up and are really good guys. Here is the story for all that are interested.....

A buddy actually paid for the trip for 3 of his clients and said he'd pay my way if I bring the food, cook and entertain. We had 2 guides Andrew and Ethan, myself and a guy named Dave jumped in with Ethan and the other guys went with Andrew. There was one guy on the trip (also named Dave) that did a lot of bragging and saying things to the guides like; "Keep an eye on these younger guys, don't worry about me because I'm comfortable out to 500 yards". In the end this guy probably shot up $50.00 worth of ammo at 3 hogs and hit 1 of them. The guy that paid for the trip and 1 other guy were having to leave the first day, so we all really wanted these guys to get hogs. Per the guide Andrew, he got them on 2 different herds of hogs within 80 yards and they all missed like 4 or 5 times a piece. We happened upon a sow in a wallow at 50 yards and they all shot about 4 times each. One of the guys that was leaving that day clipped her and she was hurt pretty bad. The 2 guys left that night with that hog.

The next morning, Myself and the 2 Daves went out and we spotted a herd of 21 head about 1 mile out in an open field. After about an hour they worked their way towards us and we cut them off. At 85 yards they all bunched up and we'd drawn straws, I got the biggest in the group. When he stepped clear and started running away I dropped him. My buddy Dave shot and hit the other hog you see in the photo. He broke his back leg and they sent a dog after him. All the mean while, they guy confident at 500 yards had shot at least 6 times not hitting anything. The dog bayed up the hog with the broken leg and we drove up in a truck. The hog ended up hooking the truck and broke off a tusk. Once we got him down, we checked him out and he'd broken off both tusk (one on the truck and one prior). He only had about 3/4 on each side sticking out. He went about 250 pounds. The other guy finally put down a 175 pound sow.

It was a fun trip.

 

[Guest]

The moral of the story?

Don't let your alligator mouth overload your tadpole arse.

Good story all around, Colin. Congrats on the hog, he's a beaut. I'm anxious to try out the 90gr E-Tip in my 243, after figuring out how to handload them for my 270Wby and a 300Wby of a friend.

 

[Colin]

Frankly, I was pleasantly suprized at the expansion of the 90gr 6mm E-Tip.