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a very interesting post there falcon.

That's impressive for a 22WMR. I don't know if I would want to shoot a 120 lb animal with it unless I could get a shot into the ear and into the brain. Have you taken many other hogs with this rifle?

A.22 magnum is not a hog gun by any means. We are limitedto rimfire rifleson that place during small game season: There are a few hunterswho make it work. i limit my .22 magnum shots on hogs to 50 yards and pick my shots very carefully.If that were a 200 pound hog i would not have attempted that shot. Started hunting hogs with the .22 magnum about a year ago and have killed about a dozen hogs with it, most of them under 80 pounds. They were all killed with the CCI 40 grain FMJ bullet.All went down at the shot and some required a secondshot to end their suffering.

None of the hogsthati haveshot with a .22 LR or.22magnum gotaway. I shot a big sow that was looking at me. She was hit just to the left of her right eye with a .22 LR solid point.Almost losther: Chased the blood trail into a thicket and could not find her so i gave up. She was lying on the road bank dead as i was driving out. ino longer hunt hogs with a .22LR.

Usually try and get the bullet in the ear, behind the ear, on a line between the ear and eye, or in theeye.

Kind of where we used to shoot them to butcher.. The brain pan as my Dad used to call it. Of course we'd jump the fence with a knife the second they went down to stick them and bleed them out.

Great job, great shot placement. Great example of shooting a bullet to match the weight of game and taking it properly with a "bow shot".
Chap

I didn't know you could get .22 mag shells in BP???

now we both know thathe posted in the wrong section