Rossi Rifleman

I was going to start today with a post in the "Range" forum about my load work with my R92 and my TLC454-290-RF lead bullet. At 9:00 this morning, I happened to look down a power line that leads up to my house and about 300-yards out I could see a couple of young hogs out on the sendero. I had just finished the work on with my 45 Colt last night and did not have one round of ammo left so I went into the reloading room and loaded two cases with a max load (25.5-grains of Lil-gun for 1805 FPS at 38.3K PSI).

Talking a round about way, downwind, I went to a fence line that I though the hogs might cross. I waited about 15 minutes with nothing and decided that the small hogs were probably wandering around while mom napped so I carefully walked the half mile back to where I first saw them. As I approached the spot, I heard a very small twig snap and stood rock still. Soon, about feet 15' in the dense brush I found the outline of an ear. Looking hard, I could make out the throat of the animal, and promptly drove the 290-grain bullet through the animal. It immediately bolted to me and I shot a again at "zero" distance and broke its front leg which turned the animal away from me. It ran about 35 yards at fell over dead. Quite exciting!



I think the hog had been dozing and due to the wind blowing at this time of morning did not hear me approach it. I also think it had "startled" as you do when you catch yourself napping, and in the dense brush it had popped that twig that gave me the "heads up". I was on top of this sow but the scout scope was a natural extension of a fluid shot picture. Very pleased!

Very cool! Next time better load 3!

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Gotta love that get your heart pumpin. I think for hogs a bayoneted rifle could have some use in case they do get a little to close. good shootin there ranch dog under pressure most fold you kept it together.

Ranch Dog wrote:I was going to start today with a post in the "Range" forum about my load work with my R92 and my TLC454-290-RF lead bullet. At 9:00 this morning, I happened to look down a power line that leads up to my house and about 300-yards out I could see a couple of young hogs out on the sendero. I had just finished the work on with my 45 Colt last night and did not have one round of ammo left so I went into the reloading room and loaded two cases with a max load (25.5-grains of Lil-gun for 1805 FPS at 38.3K PSI).

Talking a round about way, downwind, I went to a fence line that I though the hogs might cross. I waited about 15 minutes with nothing and decided that the small hogs were probably wandering around while mom napped so I carefully walked the half mile back to where I first saw them. As I approached the spot, I heard a very small twig snap and stood rock still. Soon, about feet 15' in the dense brush I found the outline of an ear. Looking hard, I could make out the throat of the animal, and promptly drove the 290-grain bullet through the animal. It immediately bolted to me and I shot a again at "zero" distance and broke its front leg which turned the animal away from me. It ran about 35 yards at fell over dead. Quite exciting!



I think the hog had been dozing and due to the wind blowing at this time of morning did not hear me approach it. I also think it had "startled" as you do when you catch yourself napping, and in the dense brush it had popped that twig that gave me the "heads up". I was on top of this sow but the scout scope was a natural extension of a fluid shot picture. Very pleased!

Congrats on the hog & "blooding" your new rifle.
290 grain projectile @ 1805 fps = 2097 ft-lbs .....IMPRESSIVE !
.30-30 ME from a .45 LC.
I'll bet that 5 pound rifle is downright sassy when fed that rich a diet, especially wearing that steel butt plate.

Arktikos wrote:Very cool! Next time better load 3!

Yeah, or a magazine tube full!

akuser47 wrote:Gotta love that get your heart pumpin. I think for hogs a bayoneted rifle could have some use in case they do get a little to close. good shootin there ranch dog under pressure most fold you kept it together.

I durn sure did not plan on getting so close!

pricedo wrote: Congrats on the hog & "blooding" your new rifle.
290 grain projectile @ 1805 fps = 2097 ft-lbs .....IMPRESSIVE !
.30-30 ME from a .45 LC.
I'll bet that 5 pound rifle is downright sassy when fed that rich a diet, especially wearing that steel butt plate.

The bench shooting is miserable. You really need to saddle up correctly to the stock butt or you will pay. Didn't even notice it out there in the brush. I'm going to actually throttle it back to 25-grains of Lil' Gun. That will put me at 1765 FPS at 35K PSI, the pressure I wanted the rifle to operate at.

The interesting thing about this Braztech rifle is that I have not done a thing to it. I bought the parts from SG but haven't touched the rifle yet. I did not even clean the action out. I put it in the vice and ran an entire tube of ammo through it, lickity split. So, I cleaned the bore and started shooting it. It will soon get a bit of treatment to at least put in the SG spring but I'm actually curious and would not be surprised if BT started putting in the shorter spring. How nice would that be? They could eliminate 90% of their problems literally out of the box!

Hey MIchael,

I bet you made the Guiness Records with killing something with the freshest ammo. Do they have a category for that? Once again, you are the envy of all. Here's a pic from Mike's backyard, all we have here are deer & bears.

Frank

Dang, I would like to pop that fellow with one of my bullets!