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<blockquote data-quote="RuffHewn" data-source="post: 26934" data-attributes="member: 1358"><p>Thanks for all the good advice, everyone.</p><p></p><p>I am just south of Clanton, Ala. I hunt hogs on my cousin's place about a mile from me. He has open fields that span aprox .75 mile. My place is mostly wooded with just a couple of greenfields for taking whitetail, the longest being varily over 300 yds.</p><p></p><p>I can still get within 500-700 yds on the hogs. The last time I hunted elk was in the early '70s a couple of years before I joined the USMC. I always managed to get within 400 yds then. I used a .270 Win 130 gr Gamekings on every thing I took then.</p><p></p><p>I am using H4350 with the 190 SMK now but will eventually try H4831.</p><p></p><p>Ian, that was a great article on the .300 WSM to 1000 yds. It is what helped me to use a Mike Rock barrel. My rifle does not like the FS and just slightly better than 2.2" at 300 yds.</p><p></p><p>Hogs are not near as tough as reputed. There is a lot of callous "armor" skin on the front that they develop moving through briars. I have no doubt this has stopped or shredded bullets. Their lungs are also very far forward and the diaphram is only slightly behind their shoulders and hunters probably have shot in the rumen thinking they were hitting center lung.</p><p></p><p>Again, many thanks. And my e-mail problem is my fault. I should have used REC USMC <a href="mailto:RET@wmconnect.com">RET@wmconnect.com</a> with the spaces. I tried to correct it and could not reenter it im my profile with the spaces.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RuffHewn, post: 26934, member: 1358"] Thanks for all the good advice, everyone. I am just south of Clanton, Ala. I hunt hogs on my cousin's place about a mile from me. He has open fields that span aprox .75 mile. My place is mostly wooded with just a couple of greenfields for taking whitetail, the longest being varily over 300 yds. I can still get within 500-700 yds on the hogs. The last time I hunted elk was in the early '70s a couple of years before I joined the USMC. I always managed to get within 400 yds then. I used a .270 Win 130 gr Gamekings on every thing I took then. I am using H4350 with the 190 SMK now but will eventually try H4831. Ian, that was a great article on the .300 WSM to 1000 yds. It is what helped me to use a Mike Rock barrel. My rifle does not like the FS and just slightly better than 2.2" at 300 yds. Hogs are not near as tough as reputed. There is a lot of callous "armor" skin on the front that they develop moving through briars. I have no doubt this has stopped or shredded bullets. Their lungs are also very far forward and the diaphram is only slightly behind their shoulders and hunters probably have shot in the rumen thinking they were hitting center lung. Again, many thanks. And my e-mail problem is my fault. I should have used REC USMC [email]RET@wmconnect.com[/email] with the spaces. I tried to correct it and could not reenter it im my profile with the spaces. [/QUOTE]
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