I had a customer when I was smithing who was a state hunter- i.e.- he was contracted by the Dept of Parks and Rec to clear out pigs from state parks where they had taken over.
He has a pet handload that was a 325 grain SSK bullet at about 1425 fps. He shot it out of a Super Blackhawk.
The reason the SBH was in the shop was the recoil took the gun past vertical, and the back of the hammer was cutting his hand on every shot, and his blood had removed quite a bit of the bluing. I reblued the SBH and dehorned the bottom of the hammer.
His experience was that handload shot through every pig he shot, including some 350 pounders. He had never recovered a bullet. He was required to dissect the pig to get the bullet out, as the meat was donated to the local homeless shelter.
I asked him why he didn't go for a rifle, and he said he had to crawl on his hands and knees through manzanita bushes to get close to the pigs, and a rifle was too large.
He has a pet handload that was a 325 grain SSK bullet at about 1425 fps. He shot it out of a Super Blackhawk.
The reason the SBH was in the shop was the recoil took the gun past vertical, and the back of the hammer was cutting his hand on every shot, and his blood had removed quite a bit of the bluing. I reblued the SBH and dehorned the bottom of the hammer.
His experience was that handload shot through every pig he shot, including some 350 pounders. He had never recovered a bullet. He was required to dissect the pig to get the bullet out, as the meat was donated to the local homeless shelter.
I asked him why he didn't go for a rifle, and he said he had to crawl on his hands and knees through manzanita bushes to get close to the pigs, and a rifle was too large.
I had finally settled on the SRH when it first came out and preordered with Ruger for the first one in anything shorter that the 9-1/2" barrel they offered. I'm happy with my choice.
( I was disabled with a bulged L4 that had me bedridden for months)