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<blockquote data-quote="remy3424" data-source="post: 1660558" data-attributes="member: 109837"><p>If you want to rid the white one and save it for proof, I agree with the route of trapping her. Shooting could damage beyond repair or not be immediately fatal and your dead trophy is forever gone, dead below deck. What ultimately happened?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That is funny, 17HMR at 4 hundred, that bad boy would hit with half the energy of a 22 short and only drop a little over 100 inches. If the hog was looking in the direction you shot, he could have stepped out of the way as it was coming! Good shooting, great story....Backflips!! The last time I had an HMR (only 17 grain) out shooting prairie dawgs, I looked at one (it was a very large one) I hit center of mass at 175 yards, he just tipped over. I usually don't mess with dead ones, but there wasn't any obvious damage. I rolled him over and I could see the lump where the bullet was stopped by the hide on the backside. I am assuming at that distance there wasn't enough velocity to open the tiny Vmax. Not too much energy left at that distance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="remy3424, post: 1660558, member: 109837"] If you want to rid the white one and save it for proof, I agree with the route of trapping her. Shooting could damage beyond repair or not be immediately fatal and your dead trophy is forever gone, dead below deck. What ultimately happened? That is funny, 17HMR at 4 hundred, that bad boy would hit with half the energy of a 22 short and only drop a little over 100 inches. If the hog was looking in the direction you shot, he could have stepped out of the way as it was coming! Good shooting, great story....Backflips!! The last time I had an HMR (only 17 grain) out shooting prairie dawgs, I looked at one (it was a very large one) I hit center of mass at 175 yards, he just tipped over. I usually don't mess with dead ones, but there wasn't any obvious damage. I rolled him over and I could see the lump where the bullet was stopped by the hide on the backside. I am assuming at that distance there wasn't enough velocity to open the tiny Vmax. Not too much energy left at that distance. [/QUOTE]
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