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 Details coming later. Having a really rough morning right now. But I took this sow last night at 167 yards with a frontal shot that passed though the brain, the neck and nearly half of the body before coming to rest. I have the recovered 125 grain Accubond but have not taken a photo yet. Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | ||
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Good stuff BT! Hope to go back out myself Wednesday! ya! GWB | |||
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 OK, here is the recovered Accubond. Ahead of a book-minimum charge of Varget, it leaves the muzzle of the 24" .300 Savage barrel at 2740 fps. It entered about 1/2" from the left eye, coursed through the brain and neck (due to angle/incline only encountered a small bit of vertebrae), ranged to and through the chest and lodged low in hog's side in the 3rd to last rib. It had broken through that rib but could not quite make it beyond there. I rarely take head shots on hogs, but this presentation was all that I was able to get. Twice the hog stepped out of the tall grass, but the chest was never fully clear. The third time, I decided to pull the trigger. Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Good work, Bobby. I just love the old .300 Savage. You take care of yourself. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Excellent shooting and a nice pig, good work. "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..." Hosea 8:7 | |||
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I don't know, but between you and Geedubya there won't be any left for us poor dog hunters. Hogs will be placed on the endangered species list.  Good shooting of course. | |||
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Good shootin. I had a Savage 99 in 300 many years ago. Had some issues with cases caving in when I seated the bullet. Deburred the necks too. The 99 also stretched the cases so bad that if I got 4 shots out of a case I was lucky. Looks like it works pretty good in a Contender. | |||
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Very nice porker there! The 300 Sav is a damned fine cartridge. Had an old Arisaka long ago that shot MOA. great performer. Doug Wilhelmi NRA Life Member | |||
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Way to go Bobby. At least some of us are seeing pigs. I think I got a defective batch of corn!! | |||
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As always, nice work BT Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Thanks, guys. I've always had a soft spot for the .300 Savage, and this barrel can sure make me smile. Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Sure nothing wrong with a head shot. Even better when you hit 'em where you intend to. They seldom go very far then. I'm curious, how many of those guns do you have? Damn, seems like every hog you kill it's with some different rifle. Hand in there Bobby. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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George- The correct answer would be "not enough" ha ha! I only have 4, but I switch around scopes fairly often, so it may seem like a different gun when it's really just a scope (or sometimes stock) change. All have 24" barrels with the exception of the 7mm BB, which has a 20 1/8th barrel. Here's a low-res snapshot of them  Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Now that is one handsome quartet of very useful tools! There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Looks like you prefer thumbhole stocks and those are not Boyds I don't think. I have two of the G1 actions, great triggers on both. | |||
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Bill- Thanks...and I do like their usefulness. With RA, polyarthralgia and neuropathy, rounds like this suit me well because of the minimal recoil. And yet, with the right bullets, they'll take care of any deer or hog inside of 350 yards. Even the ol' 30-30, with either a 125 grain Accubond or Ballistic Tip at 2600 fps, generates more than 1,000 ft./lbs of energy at 300 yards. Honestly, they have all the power most of us would ever need to cleanly harvest deer-sized game. Palidun- You are indeed correct. They are not Boyd's. The 7mm Bullberry has a Pegasus stock in sapphire from Highplainsgunstocks.com. The others are Revolution sets from Marty at Haus of Arms. I have used Boyd's, but on the Contenders, the scope-eye alignment is skewed because the stocks have too much drop, much like the factory TC offerings used to have. The Boyd's stocks do work, but I am a stickler for consistency in position/placement to keep parallax to an absolute minimum, and these sets suit me perfectly. I do prefer the TH stocks, but the twins shoot the 30-30 a bit, so we went with an ambidextrous stock on it. Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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The SPS has the 125 gr. Accubonds on sale presently if your low. I would say an accurate 30-30 with factory loads would cover many deer hunting situations nicely. | |||
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Thanks. I appreciate the tip. I'm good on my supply for now, though. I bought a few recently when they had over-runs on sale. Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Thanks Bobby, nice set! I agree, never enough guns! Though I have a hell of a lot more than just four. Closer to 40 plus a big pile of revolvers. They all need to be shot. 8 new ones now. Damn! Stay well, kill a few more hogs. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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Good lookin pork AND guns. I always like to do my math with respect to guns. You guys already know the equation. N+1 =X. Your number of guns plus one equals the right number. I apply that to my bicycle accumulation as well. Packy | |||
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