Thread: Steel Shot in pigs backside.

Hey Guys,

Here's a picture that my apprentice took, of a pig he stuck a few months back. Under the skin on the back leg of the pig was a cluster of steel shot. Most had stopped before hitting the muscle. All had healed over and the pig was fine until he dispatched it.



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Reason to carry a few rounds of 00 Buck or a slug?
Really a slug for a pig, but I doubt slug that would agree with the modified choke most of us use for ducks.

Shows how ineffective steel shot is, and looking at how concentrated that shot is it must have been bloody close!

Originally Posted by Spudattack

Shows how ineffective steel shot is, and looking at how concentrated that shot is it must have been bloody close!

I've had the same thing on geese. That may be more the brand of ammo I was using over it being steel though

That is pretty small shot that some wanker fired at a pigs ass. Any hunter with brains should no that wouldn't kill it.

Yet again another reason we should have a "Fuck me Dead" smiley in the lineup.

30 Cal in a Billy's knee!

Really don't think it would matter what shot size it was shot in a ham with:rolleyes:

My old man went threw a 22mag phase on a wee private block... kept telling him to take a real rifle ie his 223 or 30-06.
Anyway one evening he emptied the mag at the head and neck of a decent boar and it got away.
over a year later gets a big old boar with a real rifle and when skinning it out noticed lumps around its head and neck, thinking maybe some lurgy he skinned it out instead of just cutting it off for the wheelie bin and low and behold found 3 of 5 flattened 22mag projectiles, one dead center in the forehead flattened on the scull.

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I've shot pigs with a .22lr

I reckon shit just happens. I've shot goats with #3 shot while duck shooting also had a sub sonic .22lr stuck in the skin on a rabbits head. Had a .270 also fail me (surprise surprise ) 15m the bullet was stuck in the skin like the photo above.

Which is why we should use an appropriate caliber and PROJECTILE for the game we hunt.

I have shot deer pigs goats with subsonic 22, doesn't make it good or right, have also had 308 completely fail to penetrate the vitals on shoulder shot not once but 3 times on the same animal.
Bad projectile choice.

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First pig I ever killed on my loansome was with bird shot, bastard chased my at the time foxie out of the scrub when i was shooting rabbits. But yea wasnt steel shot although that cluster of bb's looks like it was bloody close

Originally Posted by kokako

30 Cal in a Billy's knee!

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Was that shot at 2000 metres?

Originally Posted by Rushy

Was that shot at 2000 metres?

Who would know, It had been in there for a long time!

Originally Posted by kokako

30 Cal in a Billy's knee!

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Must be a 30-30 seriously tho how do you think it got there? At any reasonable range it would have broken the joint and passed on,perhaps had already passed threw an animal before lodging in that ones knee?
I don't think it would have been there that long, body will push out foren matter. I have personal experience with this.

Was it mushroomed? and if not is it a FMJ?

It was mushroomed and it would not pull out. We had to cut it out. The knee was in fine working order with no swelling or infection.
Not FMJ. 7.62 x 39?

I do believe it was shot at extreme long range and just ran out of energy.