Double Naught Spy
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My first hog was with a lever action .45/70 shooting Hornady Leverevolution ammo and it performed GREAT. I took several hogs with that gun and ammo.
For a while, I was hunting with 5.56 using various ammo, setting on using TTSX rounds loaded by Silver State Armory. I liked the lack of recoil and ability to do followup shots and offhand shoot effectively, but spent additional time tracking hogs as a result.
Then I changed to a .308 bolt gun and also had great success running 150 gr. hunting ammo.
A year and a half ago, I had some medical issues and had to lay off recoil for a while (though I am find, now) and went with a 6.5 Grendel (very similar ballistics to 6.8 spc, BTW, for normal hunting distances) using Hornady SST 123 gr. ammo and I think I finally found the sweet spot between recoil and terminal ballistics. It has a little more recoil than .223, but a LOT LESS than .308, but thusfar, seems to drop them as well as my .308 ever did.
I still break out the other rifles occasionally. If I am going to day hunt, the .45/70 is what I take. The others I take out for nostalgia. My go-to gun is the Grendel, however.
https://www.youtube.com/user/HornHillRange
For a while, I was hunting with 5.56 using various ammo, setting on using TTSX rounds loaded by Silver State Armory. I liked the lack of recoil and ability to do followup shots and offhand shoot effectively, but spent additional time tracking hogs as a result.
Then I changed to a .308 bolt gun and also had great success running 150 gr. hunting ammo.
A year and a half ago, I had some medical issues and had to lay off recoil for a while (though I am find, now) and went with a 6.5 Grendel (very similar ballistics to 6.8 spc, BTW, for normal hunting distances) using Hornady SST 123 gr. ammo and I think I finally found the sweet spot between recoil and terminal ballistics. It has a little more recoil than .223, but a LOT LESS than .308, but thusfar, seems to drop them as well as my .308 ever did.
I still break out the other rifles occasionally. If I am going to day hunt, the .45/70 is what I take. The others I take out for nostalgia. My go-to gun is the Grendel, however.
https://www.youtube.com/user/HornHillRange