Double Searcy 500 NE

This is the result of a 500 grain bullet hit a wild pig at around 26 meters.
Do you think it’s up to the task?

 

Trying to attach - not easy on iPhone

 

That ought to do it. If you had been a bit closer you would t need to cook it either!

 

That’s for sure!

 

Kill it and field dress it, all in one.

 

Was it a 570 grain bullet?

.500NE is a good boar hammer.

 

Looked adequate for the job. Lol

 

Marginal performance....

 

Man what a mess! What’s left is buzzard meat! It did the job and then some.

 

It was a Woodleigh 570 grain. I feel it’s “adequate” for the task.

 

Marginal?? Lol

 

Interesting point is that 10 out of 10 phs (Australia) all use Woodleigh soft points for shooting buffalo.

 

GEZZZ what a mess .
I take it you dont like eating wild pork ?

 

Was that the first, second, third, or 12the hog that was in a line when you shot

 

Better move up to 600 to be on the safe side!

 

Terrific. No shoulder left after the first shot

 

Yeah I think you'll have to step it up to at least a .577NE. Let me see if I can reconstruct what happened here. That 1.5oz. slug didn't even make it past the hide, then the pig ran into the thick scrub, tripped over a pile of rusty bayonets left there by some careless ex-Gallipoli veteran as it ran for cover. A nearby wallaby, standing on the pile and seeing this, scrambled in the opposite direction and in the process, its powerful kick thrust a mass of bayonets toward the pig, gutting him and starting a Tetanus infection which killed him. That was my analysis of that picture anyway... . Of course, my degree is in engineering, not forensic science. Nice Shot! .500 NE is on my wish list, but then my LGS just got in a Craig boddington Ruger No.1 in .450NE 3.25" I don't have room for all these guns!

 

How did you know?

 

Squeeze another rifle in - you can do it!