I know this is a lame excuse that people often like to use, but I have never actually seen it happen for real. I never doubted that it could happen, only that claims of such mishaps seemed more common than what might be reality. Well, I finally had it happen.
I was testing some new bullets. Conditions sucked. I lost the first hog and despite a lengthy search in the rain, never recovered it. Rains stopped and I started looking anew when I came across the sounder (maybe a different one?) several hundred yards away in the direct the first sounder had run. I managed to shoot one hog, in the head, and the bullet did not penetrate. No doubt that the bullet hit at an acute angle and glanced off of the top of the skull, leaving behind a depression and radiating fractures. The hog didn't run away, but it would not still, either. It is remarkable hard trying to hit a hog running in circles in a sapling thicket at nearly 150 yards. Finally, I got the hog down...
I was testing some new bullets. Conditions sucked. I lost the first hog and despite a lengthy search in the rain, never recovered it. Rains stopped and I started looking anew when I came across the sounder (maybe a different one?) several hundred yards away in the direct the first sounder had run. I managed to shoot one hog, in the head, and the bullet did not penetrate. No doubt that the bullet hit at an acute angle and glanced off of the top of the skull, leaving behind a depression and radiating fractures. The hog didn't run away, but it would not still, either. It is remarkable hard trying to hit a hog running in circles in a sapling thicket at nearly 150 yards. Finally, I got the hog down...