After a hard day of field testing my Hogshot loads I didn't get out at all Tuesday. For the next couple of days various slugs made meat. I wound up accounting for 8 more hogs but didn't get pics of all as phone died a couple of times. But first a look at results a dear friend with advanced MS got with 20 ga using Uncle Dino's plastic based slugs. We helped him into a ground blind on a green field. Using his walking stick as a prop he took this nice buck! For the first time ever I was able to retreive a spent projectile too. The slug entered the front shoulder and it stopped just under the skin in front of opposite ham. Uncle Dino does it again!
He also killed 2 nice hogs over the next couple of days, one from 77 yds, one from 60, both perfectly placed and dead right there, but no pics. 2 of the loads were 2 3/4" rolled crimped over 43 grains of L'il Gun and one was a 3" Alliant Steel at about 1650 fps.
Last week I loaned my best bud a rifled barrel for his older 870 police and gave him plenty of Lyman 525 loads to get zeroed. He killed this one at about 40 yds through brush.
Just at dark when I took him to his truck a hog stepped into a nearby field. He thought it was too far too shoot and I showed him it was not! Using his gun I heart shot this one that turned out to be 103 measured yds with the Lyman. .
Over the next couple of days I was able to take 7 more: 4 with Lymans, 2 with Uncle Dino's 12 ga plastic based slug, and one with Zlug from my USH. 3 were in the 85 yd range, the rest 40 - 60 yds.
We spend a lot of time and effort looking for tiny groups for slug loads and mine are not perfect. Hope this encourages you all not to let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Good works great in the field in real hunting conditions on tough game with the BIG LEAD stuff we shoot!