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Friends,

I just received an email from one of our hunting club's members (We have an >7,000 acre ranch leased near Mountain Home, TX), which said that his "better half" (Molly) got quite a surprise last evening about dusk. = She shot a young (dressed @160#) sow at about 80 long steps away with Ron's .54 and discovered TWO pigs, both GYD. = The PRB has passed through both lungs and went into the spine of another/smaller hog that she couldn't even see.
(Sounds like an EXCELLENT and big BBQ coming to me.)

yours, satx
 
I'll email Ron/Molly and ask if they have any photos of the two of them, the Hawken's rifle or the pigs.
(As it was likely "black dark" by the time that they got home, he may not have made any of Molly's kills.)

yours, satx
 
Hard to beat the performance of the larger / heavier PRBs.
Best analogy I think of is the little boy or girl we've all seen at the bowling alley who can barely carry / roll a ball down the lane...but if they do and it makes it to the pins, the ball usually just plows right on in / through the pins even though its turning over so slow you can count the thumb / finger holes at every revolution going down the lane.
 
Though I prefer my "homebrew" 530 grain Minie balls out of my little .58cal "Zouave" (whatever it is??? - I refuse to re-join the UGLY & "over-heated" argument of WHAT to call it.) to a PRB for BIG hogs, I don't disagree with you.
(That PRB certainly worked WELL for Molly.)

yours, satx
 
roundball said:
Hard to beat the performance of the larger / heavier PRBs.
Best analogy I think of is the little boy or girl we've all seen at the bowling alley who can barely carry / roll a ball down the lane...but if they do and it makes it to the pins, the ball usually just plows right on in / through the pins even though its turning over so slow you can count the thumb / finger holes at every revolution going down the lane.
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A well-thrown small bowling ball is better than a poorly thrown large one. :wink:
 
Wow, a 2 for one special!! The second pig must have been right up close to the Sow, maybe a half grown piglet staying close to Mommy still? But anyway you put it that there is a lot of BBQ Ribs, sandwiches, and pork roasts.
 
Ron emailed me a couple of minutes ago and said:

1. NO photos - Just too dark.
2. Other "wee piggy" was about 65#, dressed out.
(That one, I would put on the BBQ, WHOLE. = Sounds YUM to me!!!)
and
3.BOTH of them were "stunned" at "2 for 1".

yours, satx
 
In all my years launching 54's with 90 grains of 3f or same of 2f, depending on the rifle, I've only recovered one ball. And that one pounded chunks out of a whole lot of bone before stopping under the hide. All those others had to be doing something after they whistled out the back side. A barbecue pig is a real good place for them!
 
satx78247 said:
Friends,

She shot a young (dressed @160#) sow at about 80 long steps away with Ron's .54 and discovered TWO pigs, both GYD. = The PRB has passed through both lungs and went into the spine of another/smaller hog that she couldn't even see.

Sounds like good shooting, but since I'm too old to be into "texing" what the heck is: GYD??? Sure wish more people would have learned how to write things so others can understand what they are trying to say!
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SORRY. Mea Culpa. - "GYD" is "common police shorthand" for "Graveyard Dead".
(After 3 decades "on the job" I often forget that civilians don't "speak Cop".)

Also, you may want to know that "DRT" means, "Dead Right There".

yours, satx
 
satx78247 said:
SORRY. Mea Culpa. - "GYD" is "common police shorthand" for "Graveyard Dead".
(After 3 decades "on the job" I often forget that civilians don't "speak Cop".)

Also, you may want to know that "DRT" means, "Dead Right There".

yours, satx
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I’m sorry, but your shorthand, unnecessary quoting and unnecessary CAPITALIZATION is the hardest to read stuff on the Internet. All it does is make your posts harder to read.

Why not use proper grammar and type like everyone else here? Why try to be so different? Why not let your posts stand on the merit of their content, rather than trying to impress people with a bunch of annoying nonsense? For someone who prides himself on being so scholarly, you write like no one we’ve ever seen!

Just my opinion and just asking; "What's the point?"
 

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