The Walterhog .375/300-gr bullet by Saeed is a wonderfully successful design.

It is an intelligent bullet, unlike its namesake. It is reactive, changing its behavior depending on target:

1. Mushrooms perfectly and penetrates from the south end to north end of an impala, stopping under the hide.

2. At high enough impact velocity it blows off the nose petals in a tougher cape buffalo and exits on body shots from ham to head.

3. It could be reversed and fired backwards for FN solid performance on elephant skull and body shots.

With its sleek external ballistics, and deadly-reactive terminal ballistics, it is truly the only bullet anyone with a .375 needs, for any kind of work, near or far, DG or PG. It is the ultimate KISS principle of riflery.

Question:
Would any loyal AR members wish to subscribe to a possible future run of a Walterhog copy, call it the Walterho', if Macifej could be persuaded to duplicate it?

Choices:
Yes. Only copper will do.
Yes. Brass would be interesting.
Shameless prostitution.
Shameless KISSing up.
No

Question:
What does Don Imus say nowadays when he plays Santa at the office X-mas party:

Choices:
Ho Ho Ho
Ha Ha Ha

 

Thank you for the 6 responses out of 115 look-see's so far.

Half require copper half say brass.

Two thirds say forget PC and say "HO HO HO!"

I tried to do this with Bridger bullets once upon a time. Bridger stopped making bullets for public consumption before it got off the ground. Wishing John good health!

Some would say the Walterhog is already available as the GSC .375/300gr HV, and there is even a 265-grain HV and 270-grain FN to go with it.

Some would say the swaged-beaten-multi-Dremel-Tooled-grooved-undersized copper Barnes TSX is good enough substitute.

The GSC performs like a Walterhog. O.K.
The TSX is easier to obtain.

I guess this Walterho' bullet is going nowhere again.

All Copper expanding bullets are extremely effective...
Solids in Copper or Brass appear to work equally well....Brass being harder I believe

Yes, the copper monometal GSC HV and the Walterhog are very much the same.
I still have yet to test the .395/310gr SHARK for expansion at various speeds. Coming up.

The original version Walterhog that Bridger copied did shoot into very small groups.
The nose portion was too long to fit a .375 H&H with 3.6" box. It filled Saeed's 3.8" box with .375/404 UAE Express.

It would have to be redesigned for mass consumption utilizing a shorter nose section.
That might destroy the reactive intelligence of the bullet.

We would have to redesign the Walterhog and come up with something like the GSC HV, which can be seated short or long depending on the box.

I do have a picture of that Walterhog 3-shot 100 yard target that measured 0.1... inches ...

I don't think anyone want's to shoot something with Walter's name on it RIP!!

If it was called Saeed-Hog it would probably sell like tickets to an Al Gore Show at Woodstock!

Hey! Maybe I could make some real cheap "Walterhog" imitation bullets accross the border and you could call them "Nada-Hogs"? I think they have some extra capacity at the factory where they make "Romex" watches.

SHARK = S&H Accurate Reloading Kaputzer

Six-pointed brass death star meets water bucket ... we'll see ... it was in the 20's F frosty and sunny last week early on, then warmed up to the 40's and rained for 5 days straight, rains stopped day before yesterday and it was in the 60's F !!! Now it is cooling off again, hopefully the weather will be right this weekend.

how bout naming them after walters favorite game..."Warthogs" Ugly and mean with them tuskies

SHITM Warthogs

now we got sharks and warthogs...

HO HO HO then.

How about calling them "SaeedSHARK" bullets.

The Big Guy doesn't mind.

How about one in copper that weighs 300 grains (BTHP soft) and one in brass that weighs 300 grains (FN solid): both with Saeed's banding.

If the nose is made about 0.1" shorter it should fit .375 Ruger and .375 H&H, everything in .375 caliber.

The banded design will allow seating out to fill the box on a 3.8" box.

Macifej can work magic on the hollowpoint design to increase the reactive IQ of the shorter-nosed bullet.

A bullet's brains are in its nose.

Macifej,
Dang if it is not raining again!
I thought about putting on my duck hunting gear and shooting anyway, but I do not want my rifle to get that wet out at the strip pit.

If it is only snowing tomorrow I will shoot then.

SHARK .395/310gr tested today. See other thread.

Total responses to this poll:
29 out of 549 views.
18 interested, 11 not, of the 29 responders. HoHoHo!

The majority say it has to be copper for an expanding bullet. Smart.

The one-bullet-measured drawing, just to hammer on this some more:


The Bridger copy and the original Walterhog:



The accuraccy of the Bridger copy:

Copper for hollowpoint, brass for cup point solid, and Ho Ho Ho. I still have to get a barrel shooting a projectile larger than 0.366 and smaller than 0.458. Packy

quote:

Originally posted by packrattusnongratus:
Copper for hollowpoint, brass for cup point solid, and Ho Ho Ho. I still have to get a barrel shooting a projectile larger than 0.366 and smaller than 0.458. Packy

Let them eat cake:
.375 GSC HV's in 265 and 300 grains, and they have 270-grain and 300-grain FN's,
and even an SP that is 293-grains of VLD .375-caliber target bullet or something wild like that.

Which one of the four Ho Ho Ho's, The green ones, is Ho-Bart (SP). Or should it be Showbart? Packy

No Hobart.

Left to right:
Alanbart, Saeedbart, Walterbart, Roybart

Walter looks like about a 34C in that snapshot!

O.K. Walterbart is actually Hobart.

Look how innocent Walter looks after shooting the kongoni in the (shudder) dick!
Looks like a regular H0-down about to happen.
Louzianna Saturday night in Tanzania:
... Well ya get down the fiddle, and ya get down the bow, ya kick off yo' shoes and ya thow 'em in the flo' ...

Looks to me that them Africans need to use a big ass mower so huntin' can be nice-n-easy like it is in Louisiana!

That grass looks like a pain in the ass!