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  1. Howie1968

    Hornady GP conical with felt over powder wad?

    I came to this forumn 7 yrs ago same question hundreds of wild hogs since and some great accuracy if you havent treied it give it a shot some recomend if you are shooting 50 cal get .54 cal wads 54 get .58 i just get the same caliber wonder wad
  2. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    There is another element to hunting i believe at times we dont think of my situation is i have a incredible area the main trails run North and South i am sut up to the east about 25 yards to the north is a big creek to the south east and west nasty thick thickets 99 percent of my shots are on...
  3. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    ive got about 40 years experience hunting them. ive found the more air you can get into the chest cavity and blood out. given any caliber ive always used the heaviest bullet i can find to take hogs. i will use roundballs in .58 . and a couple bigger calibers
  4. Howie1968

    HELP!

    buy it i have the .72
  5. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    yes sir i love them ive got a bunch of the 50 cal 600 grains sized to .503 they are hammerson any size pig same 80 grain charge
  6. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    its a bluish lube sir i cant detect a smell
  7. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    the diameter was .541 weight 535 and pre lubed price for 50 was 26.00 but i bought several hundred i initually bought them for my .54 great plains hunter with 1-32 twist but these bullets are to small for all of my lyman guns i bought 8# onion skin to use as paper patch material but ive yet to...
  8. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    I pretty much strictly hunt them at night so penetration is key especially in the thickets of East Texas. My reason for using heavy Conicals is to get pass throughs. Yes Ive killed them with .530 rb however no pass throughs. These heavy big Conicals put blood on the ground and air into chest...
  9. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    You have hind quarters and back straps and nice blood trail for tracking if neededo
  10. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    got some pigs coming back so i took my handy .54 white mountain carbine loaded with no excuse .535 bullets wonder wad 80 gr pyrodex p. shot distance 25 yards completely wrecked the heart and lungs exited off side with massive wound and spewed blood several feet from the hog he took a couple steps
  11. Howie1968

    Chrono results from .50 Traditions Deer Hunter

    that is great information, thank you for sharing
  12. Howie1968

    Hunting Gun Weight

    i love my tc white mountain carbines 50 and 54 i own 2 lyman deerstalker .54 calibers my lyman .58 hawken is also nice to carry those are my favorites to carry
  13. Howie1968

    SOLD 63# Lead Ingots

    Justin is great to deal with!!!
  14. Howie1968

    .72 caliber conicals

    ill look and see where i got mine i got some 800 grains and 1000 gr the 800 were short and stubby the 1000 were longer. Roundballs shot much more accurately than the .72 conicals i shot 100 grains of 2F and pyrodex rs out of mine with conicals. at 25 yards i got huntable accuracy at 50 yards...
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