Will Fennell
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DRT as in DeadRightThere
I recently started a thread about how I was really enjoying my Glock G20 10mm. Well, Friday I had a chance to put it to good use. I was teaching a sportingclay clinic @ WW Sportingclays right on the Ga/Fl line. After Friday's lessons, I went to visit a buddy who recently went to work on a large[ over 40,000 acre ] plantation in S. Georgia as the manager of the quail hunting operation on the property.
He wanted to show me around some of the property, so we headed for his work truck. He mentioned that he was having a tough time with wild hogs tearing up all of the woods roads and especially his food plots that they plant for the turkeys and quail. He told me to bring a gun with me, if I had one , and we would work on the hog population if we saw any.
Well, all I had with me was a BERETTA O/U 12ga sporting gun with 32" barrels and #7.5 shoot[not exactly my first pic] and my G20 loaded with DoubleTap ammo's 180 gr. Gold Dots. As I got in the cab of the truck, my buddy, who is a great shotgun shot, but has little experience with pistols made a smart a$$ed comment about not being able to kill anything bigger than a piglet with that plastic pistol. I explained about the ballistics, and of course it fell on deaf ears.....
We hadn't been in the truck 10 minutes, and as we rounded a bend in the dirt woods road, we spotted 2 young boars tearing up a quail food plot about 50 yards off the road. Sometimes when pigs are feeding, with there heads down in the dirt, they can be fairly oblivious to the world around them. My buddy just took his foot off the gas and coasted around the bend behind a thicket of palmetto bushes on the side of the road. As the truck stopped, I slide out the passenger door and stepped back in the edge of the field. The closest pig was probably 10 yards closer than the one I shot, but the close one knew something was up and started trotting away, offering only a quartering away shot from the rear...not ideal. The further hog was not sure what was going on, and was offering a steady broadside shot as he raised his head and tested the wind.
Though the sun had just set behind the trees, it was still plenty light. The tritium in the HEINIE night sights was just barely glowing as I settled the front post on the back edge of the boar's shoulder. I remember taking a short second and steadying my sight picture before pressing the trigger to the rear. At the sound of the shot, the hog just slumped forward onto his chest, remaining upright for a few seconds.....finally starting to kick a bit and fell over on his side. DRT. When my host came running out of the truck, he couldn't believe that I hit the hog....much less killed it. He was sure that it would get up and run into the nearby swamp...so he kept hollering for me to shoot it again. I was pretty sure it was down for the count.....but even premium ammo is cheap, so I administered a finisher shot to the side of the head. I believe it was totally unnecessary. We later paced off the shot, and while it was 54 steps, I think it was closer to 45 yards.
The young boar was 185 lbs. The 180gr. 10mm Gold Dot load from DoubleTap ammo is listed as running 1300 fps from a G20's 4.6" barrel. The bullet entered on the back edge of the shoulder and exited[!] the front of the off side shoulder. This means the bullet passed through approx. 19" of hog.....thick hide on both sides, both shoulders[though it didn't center either shoulder] and the lungs between them. The exit wound was pretty small.....I could just stick my finger in it.....but you could tell that tissue UNDER the thick hide was heavily damaged. This is EXCELLENT penetration. I'm sure that there was expansion while the bullet traversed the body, but as the bullet shed the petals of the mushroom and lost velocity, it poked a small hole out of the far side. The second shot penetrated through the skull,......making a LARGE[1.5"] exit hole out the other side. Side to side, the hog's head was probably 10" of bone and gristle.
I normally would have been very intent on a postmortem as we skinned the hog. I like to learn about a given bullet's performance on living animals.....not just what we read about jello and ballistic charts. Unfortunately we had to get cleaned up to meet some eligible members of the fairer sex early that evening, so we gave the pig to some guys that work on the plantation. They were already planning a barbecue as they were getting out their skinning knives...
Overall, I'm very impressed with the G20 and with Double Tap's Gold Dot load. The G20 can be put to work as a defensive pistol for the car or castle, as a CCW piece, a hunting gun, or run and gun @ an IDPA match. It might not be my first pick for any of these activities, but it will hold up its end of the deal if you do your part.
Here is Double tap's website....
www.doubletapammo.com
The only camera I could find was a disposable, and finding it took awhile!.....so these pics aren't great. Now lets see if I can post them.....
I recently started a thread about how I was really enjoying my Glock G20 10mm. Well, Friday I had a chance to put it to good use. I was teaching a sportingclay clinic @ WW Sportingclays right on the Ga/Fl line. After Friday's lessons, I went to visit a buddy who recently went to work on a large[ over 40,000 acre ] plantation in S. Georgia as the manager of the quail hunting operation on the property.
He wanted to show me around some of the property, so we headed for his work truck. He mentioned that he was having a tough time with wild hogs tearing up all of the woods roads and especially his food plots that they plant for the turkeys and quail. He told me to bring a gun with me, if I had one
, and we would work on the hog population if we saw any. Well, all I had with me was a BERETTA O/U 12ga sporting gun with 32" barrels and #7.5 shoot[not exactly my first pic] and my G20 loaded with DoubleTap ammo's 180 gr. Gold Dots. As I got in the cab of the truck, my buddy, who is a great shotgun shot, but has little experience with pistols made a smart a$$ed comment about not being able to kill anything bigger than a piglet with that plastic pistol. I explained about the ballistics, and of course it fell on deaf ears.....
We hadn't been in the truck 10 minutes, and as we rounded a bend in the dirt woods road, we spotted 2 young boars tearing up a quail food plot about 50 yards off the road. Sometimes when pigs are feeding, with there heads down in the dirt, they can be fairly oblivious to the world around them. My buddy just took his foot off the gas and coasted around the bend behind a thicket of palmetto bushes on the side of the road. As the truck stopped, I slide out the passenger door and stepped back in the edge of the field. The closest pig was probably 10 yards closer than the one I shot, but the close one knew something was up and started trotting away, offering only a quartering away shot from the rear...not ideal. The further hog was not sure what was going on, and was offering a steady broadside shot as he raised his head and tested the wind.
Though the sun had just set behind the trees, it was still plenty light. The tritium in the HEINIE night sights was just barely glowing as I settled the front post on the back edge of the boar's shoulder. I remember taking a short second and steadying my sight picture before pressing the trigger to the rear. At the sound of the shot, the hog just slumped forward onto his chest, remaining upright for a few seconds.....finally starting to kick a bit and fell over on his side. DRT. When my host came running out of the truck, he couldn't believe that I hit the hog....much less killed it. He was sure that it would get up and run into the nearby swamp...so he kept hollering for me to shoot it again. I was pretty sure it was down for the count.....but even premium ammo is cheap, so I administered a finisher shot to the side of the head. I believe it was totally unnecessary. We later paced off the shot, and while it was 54 steps, I think it was closer to 45 yards.
The young boar was 185 lbs. The 180gr. 10mm Gold Dot load from DoubleTap ammo is listed as running 1300 fps from a G20's 4.6" barrel. The bullet entered on the back edge of the shoulder and exited[!] the front of the off side shoulder. This means the bullet passed through approx. 19" of hog.....thick hide on both sides, both shoulders[though it didn't center either shoulder] and the lungs between them. The exit wound was pretty small.....I could just stick my finger in it.....but you could tell that tissue UNDER the thick hide was heavily damaged. This is EXCELLENT penetration. I'm sure that there was expansion while the bullet traversed the body, but as the bullet shed the petals of the mushroom and lost velocity, it poked a small hole out of the far side. The second shot penetrated through the skull,......making a LARGE[1.5"] exit hole out the other side. Side to side, the hog's head was probably 10" of bone and gristle.
I normally would have been very intent on a postmortem as we skinned the hog. I like to learn about a given bullet's performance on living animals.....not just what we read about jello and ballistic charts. Unfortunately we had to get cleaned up to meet some eligible members of the fairer sex early that evening, so we gave the pig to some guys that work on the plantation. They were already planning a barbecue as they were getting out their skinning knives...
Overall, I'm very impressed with the G20 and with Double Tap's Gold Dot load. The G20 can be put to work as a defensive pistol for the car or castle, as a CCW piece, a hunting gun, or run and gun @ an IDPA match. It might not be my first pick for any of these activities, but it will hold up its end of the deal if you do your part.
Here is Double tap's website....
www.doubletapammo.com
The only camera I could find was a disposable, and finding it took awhile!.....so these pics aren't great. Now lets see if I can post them.....
