With the 215 Grain hard cast KEAD pills, I got complete penitration of hogs with a large hole. Some went down, some ran off through the brush like a dozer running a quarter mile track. Did not care if the ones that ran were not found right then…they were dead from the big wound channel in both sides of them.
Current times the ranch to the N has been doing better management and runs their pen traps three times a year. Larger hogs get removed and sold to the packing plant. What is left is the little footballs that quickly grow to 75-150 lbs.
Switched over to the Ruger Ranch in 223. Quality commercial loads are 3200 fps and SP’s expend their energy quickly. Currently purchased a case of 1K V-Max, a good neck shot shocks the spinal cord and they go down. With multiple pigs in the kill zone @140 yards, shots are planned with largest first and have about 1 second to hit 1-2 others before they realize they are in danger.
If the larger hogs somehow recovers from the shock, multiple follows up can be placed to keep it down.