Ian
Notorious member
Success.
Spent the weekend hunting wild pigs with a friend on his farm on the middle-coast plains, got one Saturday night with a 300 Blackout and the Lee 230-grain bullet and one yesterday evening with the Socom. I didn't have time to get really comfortable with groupings, POI, or trajectory with the hollow points so I just used solids, which believe me is plenty good enough. While walking some Elm and Pecan bottom by a muddy creek I found a little wet sow rooting in a clearing about 65 yards off and knocked her right over with a quartering away shot high and just behind the ribs. Suppressors are SOOOOO great for this, you can hear the "THWOP!" of the bullet impact and other pigs going through the brush right after the shot, which in this sort of situation is priceless. The bullet kept on going and I didn't recover it, but it just plowed a big hole, easily golf ball sized on the entry side and maybe nickel sized on the exit, bang-flop and about a minute of kicking and it was over. There is no comparison with the clean little holes poked by the Blackout, none at all. I'm sold on the Socom for subsonic, suppressed work on piggies.
Spent the weekend hunting wild pigs with a friend on his farm on the middle-coast plains, got one Saturday night with a 300 Blackout and the Lee 230-grain bullet and one yesterday evening with the Socom. I didn't have time to get really comfortable with groupings, POI, or trajectory with the hollow points so I just used solids, which believe me is plenty good enough. While walking some Elm and Pecan bottom by a muddy creek I found a little wet sow rooting in a clearing about 65 yards off and knocked her right over with a quartering away shot high and just behind the ribs. Suppressors are SOOOOO great for this, you can hear the "THWOP!" of the bullet impact and other pigs going through the brush right after the shot, which in this sort of situation is priceless. The bullet kept on going and I didn't recover it, but it just plowed a big hole, easily golf ball sized on the entry side and maybe nickel sized on the exit, bang-flop and about a minute of kicking and it was over. There is no comparison with the clean little holes poked by the Blackout, none at all. I'm sold on the Socom for subsonic, suppressed work on piggies.