Corbon's 150gr.7.62x39 Takes a Florida Hog in Short Order ***Warning Graphic Photo***

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Just got back from a hog hunt and I wasn't sure how the Mini-30 would fare. She did well. I loaded her up with Corbon's 150 Gr. load and, besides being the most accurate load the mini has ever shot, it was more than adequate on a 124lb boar. Granted I was lucky enough to get a head shot at about 30 yards, but I was still happy that the 7.62x39 performed as well as she did. Perhaps the mini will serve as a decent little brush gun after all!

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I got him right between the eyes and I suspect the bullet stayed in his head. We didn't go digging for it. But he dropped right where he stood, wiggled around a bit and he was done.
 
Ah - understood. Did you butcher the hog? (I'm trying to figger out if the slug perhaps made it back to the shoulder or not.....)
 
Yep butchered him. Didn't see meat damage in the shoulder (we have two shoulders currently being ground into sausage by a processor. I hope it's not in the shoulder!

My guess is that it entered the skull and bounced around a bit b/c his skull was soft and it felt like his head was full of oatmeal.
 
Performance sounds pretty good for that CorBon load. I have not taken a hog with my SKS, but I use a 30/30, and the Mini 30 results look about the same to me, as the 150 grain Winchester Silver Tips. I have killed more hogs with the Marlin 1894 in .44 Mag, but I never feel undergunned with the Marlin 336.
 
I killed my very first hog, about an 80 lb shoat, with a 16" M94 trapper .30-30 with a 150g slug, and was most impressed with its performance with a chest shot. I would expect that a rifle-length MiniThirty with 150g slugs would behave similarly.
 
I killed my very first hog, about an 80 lb shoat, with a 16' M94 trapper .30-30 with a 150g slug, and was most impressed with its performance with a chest shot. I would expect that a rifle-length MiniThirty with 150g slugs would behave similarly.
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Yup, the balistics with the 150 gr. Corbon 7.62x39 and a Remington Express 150 Gr. 30-30 are pretty close. Not so with the 123 gr. 7.62x39 softpoints put out by the major American companies (Winchester, Federal, Rem etc.).

I imagine that, as long as you use the hevier 7.62 slug, you're about as good as if you had your trusty 30-30. And, I can't say enough about Corbon's accuracy. It's like shooting a different gun!
 
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