Lyman 457132

[bruce moulds]

kurt,
we are tarred with the same brush. fun aint it.
bill.
interesting about the relative penetration of those 2 bullets, in a straight line.
possibly nose shape is the issue.
anyway, horses for courses.
the gristle on a pigs shoulders is referred to as fighting pads here.
your description of it reminds me of an incident that happened some years ago when hunting horses.
a pig was spotted, and would normally have been neglected due to the job in hand except for its size.
a 250 gn 338 silvertip despatched it, and the bullet stayed in, the fighting pads obviously having something to do with that.
it had a big set of tusks and grinders, and i still have them, the biggest i have ever seen.
inspection of the pig revealed that it had no knackers
in those days it was a sport to catch pigs with dogs and castrate them, something that could have been in this pigs history.
a lot of guys used the .222 and the .243 on pigs, but i always preferred a .270 or a .308.
a .358 win let me down once with bullet performance on a big pig.
the 450 nitro never failed, but was hard to shoot and just too much gun.
also it was an original rigby double, and deserved to be looked after.
a .577 minie ball, pure lead, driven by about 200 gns of black powder out of a parker hale muzzle loader failed to penetrate a fighting pad at close range. that was interesting for a while.
a nice rifle for pig shooting was the rem woodmaster, but it had a habit if jamming.
the b.a.r that replaced it never missed a beat, but did not point like the woody.
keep safe,
bruce.