.44 bounces off hog skull WARNING!!!

This is why I don't use jacketed ANYTHING in my .44.

Nothing but hardcast lead. When it REALLY matters it's a premium gas checked offering from Beartooth or Precision Cast, but my plinking fodder bullet is nearly as good and only slightly softer.

Still a hell of a lot harder than the lead wire crap that they swage into jackets and pass off as deep penetrators.

I really wish they made Belt Mountain Punch Bullets in .429 diameter.
 
A while back Ted Nugent had a show on where he stuck an arrow in a hog, and the hog looked around and spotted Ted and commenced in a rapid fashion to charge him. Ted dropped his bow, pulled his .40 cal pistol and busted that hog about 3 times in the head at about 10 feet and dropped it. Sure didnt have any of those bounce off its head,,,,old Nuge was sweating blood on that one.
 
That vid is total BS. I don't care which bullet you use in a .44 that hog would be dead if hit. It wasn't hit, period. Total joke and I can't believe you posted it Brent.

LK
 
OK I have shot enough critters to know that almost anything can and will happen, you know the Murphys law thing. I too looked at this vid many times. What puzzled me is the pigs hind legs. They never really move much or open apart. Either the first shot was a spine shot or as I think, the pig was already paralized when the filming started. If the bullet bounced off its head, I do not believe that it would bounce a few inches.
I am calling BS on this one, and I will stand by my 44 rifle for hogs. I also do not use Nerf loads either:D
 
I know for a FACT that my 4in Ruger .357, One shot kills on multipal hogs up to & above 200lb Whith SJSP some relodes & some 125gn. I'm not saying hogs aint tuff but Only one on WALL 3 & 1/2 in Tusks 220LB. With a BOW & yes he went 75 yrds ;)
 
What a lot of hunters but no pig farmers? I guess some of you hunters should be talking to us farmers. It is possible to bounce 44 Mag rounds off of a pigs head all day long period.

The pig has a hard head period. There are two places to shoot a pig in the head with success.

1.) Pigs can be shot in the forehead at a spot just above and between the eyes. Draw an imaginary lines from the base of the ears to opposite eyes and shoot at the point where they cross. The barrel of the gun must be held at a right angle to the line of the snout and head or else the slug will travel above or below the brain or simple back at the shooter.

2.) The other chosen point is behind the ear with the shoot being aim down towards the snout.

Shooting in the head any other place is risking the shooter and plain wrong.

Come on there has to be other farmers to teach the common hunter on how to do this right.
 
PS I have seen enough pigs/hogs shot in the head with many different guns from the 44Mag to high power rifles, the bullet doesn't penetrate and the pig/hog just gets a little mad.
 
Actually, I don't know what you think is so hard on a pig's head. It isn't like their bones are substantially thicker or stronger than like-sized animals. In many parts, the human skull is thicker. Simply put, there is nothing particularly special about the hardness of a pig's head. There may be something to the angles involved, but then what you have are glancing shots as opposed to bounces.

Now pigs do have some substantial musculature on each side of the skull for powering their manidbles, but that isn't going to be an issue with forehead shots which are what the video appeared to be trying to show.

Their mandibles are another story all together. They have mandible with bone akin to what you would see in cattle or horse in terms of robusticity, at least on the large hogs, but mandibles aren't being discussed here.
 
Elmer Keith years ago wrote about such things happening with elk when hit by what I think was a colt revolver load 38-40 soft points that were not loaded very heavily. They flattened out on the skull. Perhaps the skull of tht small pig could be compared to the skull of a mature elk. Anyway the loads used on the pig could not have been heavy or other wise the impact would have been much greater, especially if the slug did not get through the skull. Keith decided that semiwadcutter hard cast bullets were the best to use on big game. He is considered to be one of the fathers of the modern .44 mag pistol.
 
Im no expert, but i do alot of hog hunting. Not sure what that fella was doin in the vid, but you never shoot a hog in the head unless you can hit em between the eyes. That is a Hogs strongest point because its his only defence, his head and of course tusk.
 
I have killed hundreds of hogs in over 30 years of hunting, some with my S&W629 44 Magnum. Using 240 grain Winchester Hollowpoint factory ammunition the bullets definately do not bounce off the skull of a pig at that distance. A lot of people handload their 44 Magnums to reduce recoil for target practice & then make the mistake of taking these rounds hunting. What is shown could happen as some people download their 44's so the bullet barely dribbles out the end of the barrel.
 
The shooter is a crappy shot. The first shot went through wood first, likely stripping the jacket off, and impacting the pig as fragments, not as a solid slug. The second shot doesn't actually impact the pig directly and likely missed below the pig. The third shot does directly impact the pig and the pig is finally put out of its misery, but the shooter clearly missed his stated target.
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Ding Ding Ding Ding

Ladies and Gentleman we have a winner.......
Rewatch the video in slow motion and you will see that the shooter is clearly a lousy aim.

At the 17 second mark you can see the chunck of wood that gets taken out with the first shot. At around the 30 or 31 second mark you can see the puff of dirt below the pig....

Two shots, two misses. :eek:

When the shooter picks up the bullet it appears to be just a stripped jacket without the lead. Most definately from shooting it through the log at such a close range. Had it hit the hogs head directly it would have more then likely flattened Not mushroomed.
 
Not surprised...

I shot a small one with a .308 in the chest that came out his belly and dropped his intestines out.

He ran off, so I shot him again. He still kept coming at me and 5 shots of .38 Special +P (DoubleTap no less) didn't do the job. It did scare him enough to make him run into some briars where I'm guessing he eventually died.

I'm gonna stick to 12ga. slugs from now on.
 
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