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4 cups water

2 tablespoons salt

4 cups distilled white vinegar

10 drops red food coloring (Optional)

10 links smoked beef sausage


In a large pot over medium-high heat, combine the water, salt, vinegar, and red food coloring. Bring to a boil. Cut the sausage links into halves or thirds, depending on size, and place into a large sterile jar. Pour the hot vinegar mixture in with the sausage, secure the lid, and let stand for 2 days before serving.

Looks like fun and some good eating. Being a huge 10mm fan i would also love to know what round and where you think you hit him with the pistol shots.

Over 20 years ago I shot a wild pig with a 10mm too and wasn't particularly pleased with it's performance. Could you tell us what kind of rounds you used and (if they were JHPs) whether or not you were able to recover them from the pig to see if they expanded, penetrated adequately, etc...?

I'm glad you were able to recover your animal. When I lived in CA, I hunted wild hogs frequently. Even went with an SF member or two. In addition to being a lot of fun to hunt, they are great eating (if field dressed properly) and it's one of the few things I miss about leaving that state.

Nice hog. Haven't hunted hogs in several years but when I did it was a 30.06 or shotgun slug for me.

I have taken whitetail deer with handguns for over 35 years. Upstate NY, so deer can be 150+ pounds.
I've used various .44 magnum revolvers, .44 magnum Desert Eagle autoloader, .35 Rem XP 100R bolt action pistol, 30-06 T/C Encore single shot pistol, and .500 S & W revolvers successfully for taking whitetail deer.

My largest buck ever was taken with a Kimber .45ACP and a 230 grain cast lead round nose reload. One shot in the neck, dropped it in a heap and it never quivered.

I shot a big doe with the 30-06 T/C Encore pistol, had a complete lengthwise projectile pass through, right rear hindquarter all the way through the body cavity and the expanded projectile was found just under the skin in the left front quarter. Nosler ballistic tip was the bullet. That one had to be tracked several hundred yards.
Don't do this. Inside the body cavity looked like a blender had been inside running for hours. A big mess when field dressing.
It was a known wounded deer prior to my shot, and sort of a "Hail Mary" shot opportunity, unsupported on a briskly moving deer.

Sometimes I carry 10mm handguns, but I haven't yet taken a deer with a 10mm. When/if I do, it will be for very close range opportunities.
I can say the 10mm is much more gentle to the hands and ears compared to the .44's and the other more high powered cartridges.
Sometimes it just not possible to get hearing protection installed in time to take a shot.

If you shoot the 30-06 Encore or .500 S & W guns without hearing protection, I suspect instant and near total hearing damage will result. I haven't tried it.

While I have never hunted wild pigs, I have heard and read that they are harder to kill than deer. The gristle plates are effective for protecting the vitals.
I can say that shooting whitetails with handguns, the only time I ever shot one, and it dropped like it had been hit over the head with a telephone pole, was with a .500 S & W revolver.

Perhaps you need more "gun"?

Something like this?

I wish you weren't so far away in Florida. You could take this out and try it.

IMG_20190405_101541167 by cee_Kamp 32ACP, on Flickr

Hello guys,

Thanks for the great reply’s. I will try to answer all the questions.

I was not able to recover the 10mm rounds but I did recover the 300 blk. It expanded beautifully and dropped him with one shot to the head. The 10mm did the job. He was dead on his feet and did not know it. The lungs were toast and the chest cavity was filled with blood. He was bleeding internally and since no exit wound, he did not bleed out fast.

I’ll carry the 10mm with a hard cast round as a backup, but will use the rifle for a humane kill.
The 10mm:

180gr XTP
13gr Accurate #9
WLPP
1.255 OAL
1275 FPS

300 BLK

110 Hornady VMAX
19gr IMR 4227
WLRP
2.050 OAL
2050 FPS 8.3” Barrel

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Originally posted by usncorpsman:
110 Hornady VMAX

Congratulations, and it was your gun and your hunt, but to pick a nit, according to Hornady, V-MAX bullets have lead cores. That appears to be solid copper/gilding metal and also has groove(s): The GMX, perhaps?
If so, excellent performance, especially for moderate velocity.

Congrats, in real life sometimes things don't go like the fairy tale stories everyone reads.

Enjoy the bounty!

That is is real beast.

The places you hunt look like they would be crawling in snakes.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by usncorpsman:
110 Hornady VMAX

Congratulations, and it was your gun and your hunt, but to pick a nit, according to Hornady, V-MAX bullets have lead cores. That appears to be solid copper/gilding metal and also has groove(s): The GMX, perhaps?
If so, excellent performance, especially for moderate velocity.

No Sir. I only load the 110 VMAX. The guide skinned him and this bullet was against the hide. Now you make me wonder if the guy was shot before and survived it.

Reading the box label for the Hornady V-MAX, "small game", "rapid explosive expansion", in my humble opinion is the absolutely incorrect bullet for hog hunting.
To me, that V-MAX bullet is for groundhogs, fox, coyote.
I would be using a bullet expressly manufactured for toughness, perhaps bonded or monolithic construction and advertised/sold for Big Game hunting.

Take that with a grain of salt as I am not a hog hunter.

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Originally posted by usncorpsman:
I only load the 110 VMAX.

Very interesting. I would bet a nickel that the recovered bullet wasn't a V-MAX. Your explanation would make sense.

But in any event your bullet obviously did the job even though I, too, would have thought it a bit light and quick-expanding for such a large, tough animal.

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Originally posted by cee_Kamp:
Reading the box label for the Hornady V-MAX, "small game", "rapid explosive expansion", in my humble opinion is the absolutely incorrect bullet for hog hunting.
To me, that V-MAX bullet is for groundhogs, fox, coyote.
I would be using a bullet expressly manufactured for toughness, perhaps bonded or monolithic construction and advertised/sold for Big Game hunting.

Take that with a grain of salt as I am not a hog hunter.

If you look at the velocity range on the box it is from 2000-4000fps. At 2050 FPS it is acting like any 30 cal bullet and on par with 30/30. If you are pushing it to those 4000fps speeds, then yes, you are going to get that rapid expansion and break up of the bullet. Pigs are pretty easy to kill with rifle and are taken the majority of the time here in a Florida with 223. They are not the hard to kill monsters people think they are, but some of them can take more than others and that is for sure.

I have killed plenty of them with this and the 125gr Speer TNT. 30/30 does a great job as well.

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Originally posted by Colby Bruce:
The places you hunt look like they would be crawling in snakes.

Hahahaha, I’m from Florida and those palmettos(in Fla or Ga.) can hide plenty of snakes...most of them slither away before you ever knew they were there....

I agree with the OP. I’ve dropped a hog dead still in its tracks with a single shot from a .30 carbine, but I also put a good move on a sow last spring, down-hill and quartering towards me, with an 8mm Mauser, and she ran off into the brush 150 yards away from the shot before she quit. When we dressed her, the shot tore up shoulder, lungs, liver, guts, and exited out the abdomen just inside the thigh. Some are tougher than others, but they all eat good.

I also have to agree with the OP on this one. Years ago I shot a European Boar with a .44 Magnum. Bullet placement was OK. The thing just looked at me and trotted off. Subsequently put it down with a 12 gauge slug. The same day, another guy shot one with a .41 Magnum and as I recall he expended five rounds on it. That swore me off handgun hunting, at least for boar.

Well done sir.

Excellent story and results. Not to mention that food looks fantastic!!!

I believe everyone just has different experiences. I use 10mm filled with Underwood 180g and never had a problem. I also use 220g 300blk without issues either. Shot placement is almost always the issue. It's not necessarily that every that makes a hit and pig runs off as much as the location of vitals varies a lot and is hard to discern under "pig conditions."

Well done Sir!