Lazarus the Boar with 7mm-08

Описание: This Boar was out in the open early morning. Setting up the camera at a tree approximately 170m from the animal, I stalked into 105m then took the shot. The rifle is a Sako 85S Laminated Stainless Hunter 7mm-08. The load used is a 120gr Barnes TTSX travelling at 3000ft/s.

After packing up the camera equipment, I turned around the Boar had gone! Leaving the gear behind, I entered the nearby Gilgai and approached thigh high stubble,...from 7m the Boar squealed and charged gnashing his tusks. I rapid fired the last three rounds with the third and final round hitting the Boar under the right eye at 1.5m, exiting out the Boar's neck.

Cutting open the Boar revealed the initial 120gr Barnes TTSX projectile had pin holed through both shoulders and the lungs! This load is chronographed doing 3005ft/s. From experience a 120gr Nosler Ballistic-Tip at the same velocity with the same shot placement would have planted him dead on the spot! Over the last two years I have experience random performance with the Barnes TTSX projectile on multiple Pigs, Fallow deer and even lost a large Rusa Stag!

The recovered 120gr Barnes TTSX mushroom shown came out of a different Boar.