What we were actually doing was beginning the process of butchering hogs.
We (my family and a friends family) pay a farmer X amount of money to raise 6 or 8 hogs and then we kill, gut, clean, cut, brine and smoke them to our own taste. In the end it cost me about $2.75 - $3.00 per pound versus store prices although it takes a couple of weeks worth of work.
My wife has fallin in love with her Springfield XD 40 (3 in barrel) and she wanted to use it to drop our half of the hogs. My very good friend has a Taurus Judge that he wanted to try for dropping there half of the pigs.
My friend shot his first hog from a distance of about 6 inches in the front of the head with the 40 LC Winchester Silver Tip. His hog jerked and jerked for almost 3 minutes which was very concerning as we dont want any animal to suffer. (We did the throat cut right after the shot on all hogs regardless of who shot what) My wife shot our hogs in the same location with he 40 using Corbon DPX and it jerked for no more than 20 seconds.
We killed 8 hogs and the result was the same every time.
When we were removing the heads and skin we always make a point to try to find the bullet. The Corbon DPX was (to the eye) fully expanded and intact and left a almost on inch path though the head. (The path was bloodshod)The Winchester Silver Tips in every case expanded very, very little and we ended up finding at least two of them in the hogs throat area.
The path the Silvertips left was hardly bigger than the barely expanded bullet.
Now not to be critical of my trusted old friend, but I spend time and money researching the rounds we (my wife and I) carry for SD prior to buying them.
My buddy on the other hand openly admitted he liked the silver look and it was much less expensive and a hollowpoint, he did no reading up or looking at any sort of stats prior to buying.
Anyway for me I will never buy a silvertip after this experience (not that it was even in the consideration prior to this).
I was just shocked how due to what I see as poor bullet selection the gun that clearly could have more energy behind a larger, heavier round had far inferior results.
I will be buying my friend some 45 LC DPX for next year and maybe I can make a point by showing what should be a much better result from his own gun.
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