Hog Down!
 

I didn't get a chance to test the Hornaday FPB yet but my buddy Anthony dropped one this evening with a .44cal XTP. He has orders to Camp Lejeune and I wanted to get him a hog before he left. It was pouring rain and we were sitting in my 2-seater ladder stand at exactly 100 yards from my feeder. One of the little red ones came out and then quickly darted. He showed himself 2 more times in the following 20 minutes. Then he came back with two more in trail. I told Anthony to go ahead and take a shot when he had it. He waited for a few seconds and as soon as one of the black ones showed itself, he dropped it. It squealed and thrashed a bit but was dropped on the spot. Weirdly enough the rain let up as we were climbing out of the stand. This was his first medium sized animal. He usually hunts small game like squirrels and ratcoons. And this was his first animal ever with a muzzleloader. I got him hooked on them when I let him shoot the Genesis when I still owned it. He was super-stoked especially since he missed one two days ago.[:'(]

Here's Anthony with his first hog! It was a sow. We weighed it and it was just under 100 pounds.



He was shooting my old Remington Genesis I sold him. It has a Nikon ProStaff 3-9X40 scope with the BDC reticle. He was using a .44cal Hornaday XTP with a Harvester green crush-rib sabot over 100 volumetric grains of BH209 and a Winchester W209 primer.

Here's the entry wound...



Here's a shot from inside the body. You can see the route the XTP took...



And here's the exit wound...



The shot went in the ribs on the right side and exited the neck on the left side taking some shoulder with it.

I'm gonna give them a few days to settle back down and then I'm gonna sit in my ground blind and try to get the black boar with an FPB.

RE: Hog Down!
 

NIce looking porker, looks like the xtp did a good job.

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Congrats . It looks like that XTP did a number on that hog. Why I bet the only bullet out there that would have done better is the Lehigh:D:D:D:D

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that looks like some real good meat on that porky. Now if you could get someone to shoot center ( lung through lung ) that'd be even better:D Thats a lot of damage on the exit side.

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Good report SW thanks for the pics. Looks like the xtp did a good job. Tell your buddy good luck at Lejeune

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Keep it up. Just don't make any whiney comments when I joke about Lehigh. :D

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Nice report and great pics. That was a 240gr XTP?
Nasty!

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Nice report and pics ! There you go.... the old, dumb, cheap, unsexy XTP does the job !

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Good report. I shoot that exact load out of my Genesis as well. Looks like it did the trick.

Looking forward to the FPB report as well.Lucky dog, I wish I had hogs around here [&o]

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Sorry I didn't mention that. It was a 300g.

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I always felt that the XTP was an under rated bullet by many. They want to spend big dollars on other projectiles. And not that the others do not work fine, but that kind of damage would stop a lot of animals. My Genesis likes the 300 grain as well.

Congratulations to your buddy on a great shot and a nice hog. Some good eating there I bet.

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For sure! No doubt the XTP did a fine job. I've got a box of .45 cal XTP's that I may give a try on hogs and maybe deer as well.

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It's good we don't have pigs around here, the deer do enough damage but I would love to be able to hunt some pigs without having to empty out the checking account.

250 gr .452 XTP's have worked great on several PA deer. It's my cheap practice bullet and the go to bullet when I need to start from scratch shooting in a muzzleloader.

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Congrats to your friend onthe nice pig.i have killed an awful lot of hogs with the240 grain .430 XTP bullet. It alwaysdoes a real good jobon hogs and deer when i put it in the right place.

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First let me say congrats to you for helping your friend and being there for him.Second
I will be waiting and watching for the report on these 45's.I have a box in the gun room
have not even tryed them yet,out of my pro hunter.Maybe if it don't rain today i will give them a try.

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I haven't had a chance to use the 300 gr XTPs on a deer or a bear yet. But looking at that wound channel I ain't worried about how they will perform. Congrats to your friend on the hog and good report.

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I haven't had a chance to go after another hog yet. They went nocturnal after Anthony shot his. And that boar I'm after is still only coming out after dark. I have to figure out a way to get him to come out during the day. I think I'll just leave that area alone for a while and see what I get on the trail cam. I'll just take some time to work on my food plot for deer season.

I ran out of FPB's trying to dial in the Endeavor to an acceptable level. The thing has been giving me fits lately. I just ordered 2 more packs of them so hopefully by the time I get them I'll be ready to shoot another hog.