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Thread: The mighty Amax vs Piggy

  1. 27-11-2015, 07:54 PM #1
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    The mighty Amax vs Piggy

    Walking down a ridge last night after seeing only the asre end of a red stag, Eva stopped and indicated game. I hastily dropped to one knee and scanned the area she was staring into with my binoculars. One fat boar was nosing its way across a face blissfully unaware that a 7mm Rem Mag carrying hunter was only 200 yards away... The strong northerly was hiding my scent and the dusk light my outline.
    He paused and I placed the cross hairs just behind his ear and squeezed the trigger on my Remmington SF, down he went as if been hit by 162 grains of lead travelling at around 2692 FPS. Funny thing is he was! 2475 ft-lbs of energy, what could survive that?




    Discovered on the far side of the boar - resting up against a almost 1" shield

    As it started

    There's 88 grains of lead in that pig some where; it sure did blow a big hole in the far shoulder, the other one is in my fridge, along with the back steaks and the two hind legs. Might try some wild pork bacon.
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  3. 27-11-2015, 08:22 PM #2
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    The tip appears to have melted off
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    Submit jaw in the hvnzda comp?? Maybe you could win a prize next year??

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    Quote Originally Posted by HNTMAD View Post
    Submit jaw in the hvnzda comp?? Maybe you could win a prize next year??

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    Nah. I wouldn't. They can't even spell his name correctly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HNTMAD View Post
    Submit jaw in the hvnzda comp?? Maybe you could win a prize next year??

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    I better go and get it then...!
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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwijames View Post
    The tip appears to have melted off
    Yeah, I'll get some of the new thermonuclear ones when I blast off the 400 hundred normal ones I have now...

    Bastards, just when I had stock piled them too!
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    Aparently no more 140 6.5 amax are been made as been replaced by the new 143.
    I hope they shoot as well!
    Im not sure if they are stopping any of the other amax?

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    Nice pig Craig. Not a bad consolation prize for not getting a red.
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    Stupid A-Maxes, killing animals with a melted tip again !
    Good work, at the mo i have cracked ribs and just looking at its size makes them hurt
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    nice camo paint job on the pig !
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    I'd always figured an AMAX would be in danger of blowing up on the outside going that fast, that close - I guess they're more forgiving than I thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chalkeye View Post
    I'd always figured an AMAX would be in danger of blowing up on the outside going that fast, that close - I guess they're more forgiving than I thought.
    I've shot quite a few pigs with this set up. Never been any indication of surface/entry blow up. All pigs have been killed pretty quickly.
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