Recovered Accubond

[Richracer1]

I found this in the hog I shot last Sunday. I went through it's right hind leg, shattering the bone, then went across and lodged in the skin in front of the left leg. I thought it had exited, but found it while scraping the skin today. The hog was 172lbs dressed. The bullet was a 180gn AB. The recovered weight is 108.5gn. Shot from a 300RUM at about 40yrds.

Here is a pic of the hog getting ready to lose his skin.

Here is the recovered bullet

 

[FOTIS]

That is awesome ! Congtrats on the piggie.

 

[Richracer1]

That is awesome ! Congtrats on the piggie.

Thanks POP. Unfortunately, hitting the leg destroyed most of the meat. I got about a 1/4 of the meat I would usually get. Oh well, such is life.

 

[FOTIS]

Don't feel bad. At least you shot one! I went to Texas with some buddies a couple of years ago. We hunted for three days and did not veven see one (at least me). We were suppose to come back with 15 hogs (3 per) and came home with two!
That was an expensive and totally fruitless trip!

 

[JD338]

Richracer1,

Congratulations on your hog. Should be a good BBQ.
You gotta love them AB's..........they rock! :grin:

JD338

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Congrats on teh hog, pretty close for the 300 RUM. Looks like the 180g AB almost turned inside out! Those RUMS tend to lose ya a lot of meat sometimes, but oh well. Little bit of meat is better then no meat, at least thats what I always said, :grin:

 

[nomosendero]

To me, the fact that the bullet gave such diagonal penetration, this with hitting a big bone in the early part of the penetration on an animal that is
tougher than a Deer & doing this at close range at RUM velocities speaks
volumes. A 200 would do even more, wow!

 

[Richracer1]

Congrats on teh hog, pretty close for the 300 RUM. Looks like the 180g AB almost turned inside out! Those RUMS tend to lose ya a lot of meat sometimes, but oh well. Little bit of meat is better then no meat, at least thats what I always said, :grin:

I think I need to clarify. I only got 1/4 of the meat from that ham that I would normally get. As for the range, well, when your walking back to the truck and the animal basically jumps in fron of you, not much choice.

To me, the fact that the bullet gave such diagonal penetration, this with hitting a big bone in the early part of the penetration on an animal that is
tougher than a Deer & doing this at close range at RUM velocities speaks
volumes. A 200 would do even more, wow!

I was only using the 180ABs to pop the rifle's cherry. I have since resighted for the 200AB. This is the main load for this gun. The 180AB load was 98.5gn of Retumbo, so yeah, it was hauling ass when it hit the hog. What I find interesting, is it didn't blow up the intestines. I'm still baffled as to the bullet path fron the right ham to in front of the left ham w/o blowing the intestines apart. Oh well, better for me to field dress it.