Double Naught Spy
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I put forth my first kill with a 130 gr. Berger VLD-Hunting bullet fired from my 6.5 Grendel that met with a bit of controversy. I was a bit surprised by the performance as I thought the hog should have been dead by the time I walked up on it and it was still quite conscious. http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=573576
I have now shot 17 more hogs, more actually, but the following video summarizes the results on 18 hogs shot by me at varying distances (150 yards and less), varying circumstances (stalks, stands, open fields, high oats, etc.), over a 3 month period.
https://youtu.be/wqKHml1J-bw
The video is long, but includes descriptions from each of the kills. Several have necropsy images included, FYI.
For those interested, here are Berger's description of what their bullets should do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8j-7D-bubQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDoTOoCR2_A
What I found is that despite their claims for hydrostatic shock dropping animals and that if hydrostatic shock didn't do it that the animals would not go very far, the bullet performed much like other hunting ammo I have used in terms of bringing down hogs. Hydrostatic shock is not a reliable aspect of this bullet on hogs. The things that are most reliable about this round and its impact on hogs is that it tends to penetrate deeply, tends to overpenetrate, tends to do a LOT of soft tissue damage and to do it through out the course through the body. This is not what I would consider a good meat-hunter's round, but it is a very destructive round.
Sometimes, even with obviously fatal wounds, the animals do run and manage to run far enough to not be located. In a big flat, plowed field, running 200 yards might not be all that far. In heavy vegetation where hogs are often found, that is another matter.
I have now shot 17 more hogs, more actually, but the following video summarizes the results on 18 hogs shot by me at varying distances (150 yards and less), varying circumstances (stalks, stands, open fields, high oats, etc.), over a 3 month period.
https://youtu.be/wqKHml1J-bw
The video is long, but includes descriptions from each of the kills. Several have necropsy images included, FYI.
For those interested, here are Berger's description of what their bullets should do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8j-7D-bubQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDoTOoCR2_A
What I found is that despite their claims for hydrostatic shock dropping animals and that if hydrostatic shock didn't do it that the animals would not go very far, the bullet performed much like other hunting ammo I have used in terms of bringing down hogs. Hydrostatic shock is not a reliable aspect of this bullet on hogs. The things that are most reliable about this round and its impact on hogs is that it tends to penetrate deeply, tends to overpenetrate, tends to do a LOT of soft tissue damage and to do it through out the course through the body. This is not what I would consider a good meat-hunter's round, but it is a very destructive round.
Sometimes, even with obviously fatal wounds, the animals do run and manage to run far enough to not be located. In a big flat, plowed field, running 200 yards might not be all that far. In heavy vegetation where hogs are often found, that is another matter.