A little hammer goes a long way

I have a box of 264 99gr hammers sitting here , waiting for me to decide what to do with them. I had intended to load them for one of my AR15 6.5 grenals, but I have an itch to build a ultra light 6.5 creed with a carbon fiber sporter weight barrel and magnesium chassis on a 700 action. I have some pretty nasty neck issues that makes it unwise to subject myself to much recoil and those 99s loaded to around 3000fps should be pretty easy on snap with recoil. If that little 22cal does that kind of damage, a 99gr 264 can at 3000 should be a dang giant killer !! Full disclosure......I just hunt close to home in Ga, so pigs and whitetails are about all I will be chasing.
 
I have started 6 kids on deer with a 223. I settled on the 60 grain Nosler Partition as the pinnacle bullet in 223 for deer.
Always opens/expands where some of the coppers I had didn't open and left pin holes through deer at 250 yards.
I have only recovered two of these 60 gr Nos Part. Both went diagonally from front end of the deer to the back end of the deer and stopped just under the hide of the back ham. They shed the entire front lead portion and the back half of the partition keeps on going and going and going...

This hog damage has me intrigued. I may have to try some of these hammers in 223 if I get a chance. Maybe when I have grand kids. All my kids have moved up to the bigger style of cavitating, hydrostatic shocking, knock down power producing version of deer slaying calibers.
This was exactly what I was doing also until I found the hammers now I don't even have a partition on my shelve. Sad to think but boy your think they would make a high bc partition some day.
 

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