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Hog and Hawg,
Your mention of shooting hogs with a 30/30 brought to mind something from a couple of years ago. I had trapped 8 or 9 feral hogs (approx 100 pound body weight) in my big fixed trap and I hadn't started using the 22 LR to kill them at that time. I was using my 357 Mag and had a 100 round box of reloads with me. The 125 grain JHP load, which was pretty hot, did not kill them effectively. I switched to some old 148 (or was it 158) grain lead wadcutters, which weren't hot loads, and they did the job much better than the 125 gr JHP's. I have no explanation for why the lower velocity pure lead wadcutters worked so much better. Both head shots and chest shots were made. All I can assume is that the JHP's opened up too fast, whereas the wadcutters blasted right on through.
Your mention of shooting hogs with a 30/30 brought to mind something from a couple of years ago. I had trapped 8 or 9 feral hogs (approx 100 pound body weight) in my big fixed trap and I hadn't started using the 22 LR to kill them at that time. I was using my 357 Mag and had a 100 round box of reloads with me. The 125 grain JHP load, which was pretty hot, did not kill them effectively. I switched to some old 148 (or was it 158) grain lead wadcutters, which weren't hot loads, and they did the job much better than the 125 gr JHP's. I have no explanation for why the lower velocity pure lead wadcutters worked so much better. Both head shots and chest shots were made. All I can assume is that the JHP's opened up too fast, whereas the wadcutters blasted right on through.