[HTR]

I have already slammed two hogs with the 85 grain TSX, using my Cardinal Armory 12.5" barrel. I haven't chronographed them yet, because I spent most of that day shooting the Tubbs Final Finish series through the new barrel. After the treatment, I went pig hunting in a stand near a deer feeder that they had knocked over. :x I WAS PISSED

So, I snuck in at dusk, and about an hour after sunset, here they came. They sniffed the air at the end of the sendero, but I was scent - free....I actually took a shower in scent soap, as if bow hunting, because they are no so wary of any human scent. They didn't smell me....little bastards :evil:

So, here they came, under the feeder and just as a big sow was starting to nudge the legs of the feeder, I plugged her right through the ribs with an 85 grainer, using my D-740....all I wanted to do was put a hole in her and let her run off from the feeder. Instead, she dropped in her tracks!! She just kinda wiggled around a little.....DAMN.

Since I am always ready for the rest of them to run, I re-oriented the rifle toward another running pig, and shot it right in the side, and it, too flopped right over. I had forgotten the camera at home that night

The TSX's are performing just about like I had imagined....and they do it at just under 3000 FPS from the 12.5 inch barrel. Yeah, baby, yeah.

 

[HTR]

I have already slammed two hogs with the 85 grain TSX, using my Cardinal Armory 12.5" barrel. I haven't chronographed them yet, because I spent most of that day shooting the Tubbs Final Finish series through the new barrel. After the treatment, I went pig hunting in a stand near a deer feeder that they had knocked over. :x I WAS PISSED

So, I snuck in at dusk, and about an hour after sunset, here they came. They sniffed the air

at the end of the sendero, but I was scent - free....I actually took a shower in scent soap, as if bow hunting, because they are no so wary of any human scent. They didn't smell me....little bastards :evil:

So, here they came, under the feeder and just as a big sow was starting to nudge the legs of the feeder, I plugged her right through the ribs with an 85 grainer, using my D-740....all I wanted to do was put a hole in her and let her run off from the feeder. Instead, she dropped in her tracks!! She just kinda wiggled around a little.....DAMN.

Since I am always ready for the rest of them to run, I re-oriented the rifle toward another running pig, and shot it right in the side, and it, too flopped right over. I had forgotten the camera at home that night

The TSX's are performing just about like I had imagined....and they do it at just under 3000 FPS from the 12.5 inch barrel. Yeah, baby, yeah.

Did the bullets pass through? The more I hear about this round the more I like it. Art at SSA told me this round in the combat load was still pushing 2800 fps from a 10.3" barrel so out of a 12.5" it should be around 2900 fps. With that bullet that is scary!

Both of them went right through. I have never yet recovered a single Barnes bullet from any pig I have shot with them, neither the TSX or the TTSX. That's somewhere around 70 hogs.

And yes, I fully expect to get 2900 FPS form the 12.5" Cardinal barrel. That is pretty amazing when you think about it. As soon as I get back from Laredo, I am going back in for the next pig shoot, but, I have a party from NY coming in for trophy deer Saturday.

However, they have already said that hey want to try the "night vision hog hunting," so I might have another kill to report, and pics this time for sure.

BTW, I just got my PRI gasBuster charge handle, and Young NM chrome carrier, and I installed them into the Spike's / Cardinal SBR tonight. This lil' gun is getting better and better all the time.