It didn't do what I thought it would do, the 198 pound feral hog didn't fall in place. Maybe I didn't clip the heart and lungs, maybe I expected too much. Would a 275 grain or 300 grain have done better. How fast should a 198 pound hog bleed out. If I wanted to drop it in place should I have just gone for a headshot. If only can expect that from a headshot then why a 450b, I can do that with a lessor bullet and I don't really try to shoot through brush. Now, on the other hand ... if i am in the brush and suddenly am getting charged by a large mean hog or bear or bigfoot or whatever, clipping through the shrubs makes sense with the 450b. Thing is, if a 198 pound Hog will run off 50 yards before bleeding out and falling over, how can I expect to stop anything in it's tracks unless I do a mag dump and get a critical central nervous system hit in the process.
Likely a lot here I don't know. My original thinking was I would be doing a precise hit to behind the ear at 75-150 yards. Reality was 40 yard baited hunt for the first application. Shot 2 hogs at different times, both ran off, hit maybe not in the heart, maybe in the liver. The scope on my rifle is due to my eyesight and it has the ability to focus, plus it was the 1st one that I tried and liked. Likely low profile iron site will go on this rifle if I continue to brush hunt.
Anyway,
1) hog hunting and not have to track them because they get shot and drop in place, will the 450B normally deliver that kind of trauma to a large hog that has been heart-shot? or would that be an exception and less likely common.
2) 250 grain .452 = .175 Sectional density, this seems weak for deer and hogs, (yes/no)?
(pictures and babble wondering why the hog didn't drop in place)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5bahfDN26A