Hi Guys
Just came back from some pig hunting . I had my pump 308 and my 12ga/ .308 combo for work of the bike. I load the 3 inch shells with 18 x 1 buck pellets , each pellet is #2 alloy and weighs about 40gr velocity is about 1150 fps.
The pictures show how much abuse the pellets get just from barrel scrub and contact in the barrel . They are damaged less by contact with target.
The picture of the pig with the knife shows the travel of pellets, I removed 3 pellets from this pig found on the other side of the impact. The other 2 pellets from another pig all in all we shot 39 pigs . The hand cast load , I find patterns much tighter than standard swagged pellets, which deform much much more opening up patterns