264 bullet question

[BulletBradley]

Howdy Fellas, do any of you Know of a good hog bullet for a 260 Rem? I am using nosler partitions at the moment, I have had the best luck with them so far. They just dont seem to work as well on 300+lb piggys. they are tuff, and dont tell me it is shot placement. I am looking for a solid bullet, i Tried the orx round nose 140 grainer from lapua and they did about the same as the partitions, I was wondering if anyone knows of any solid bullets for the 264? thanks Bradley

[Questor]

I'd pick the Barnes TSX bullet and get both expansion and penetration. From what I've read about it you may even be able to get bleeding exit wounds on the bigger hogs. Hard to tell, but I'll find out in March. We'll be using the TSX's for both 308 Win and 375 H&H.

[daddyof4]

I just got a 260 as well. A guy from my church was liberated of all of his firearms by someone not very honest. So he gave me all of his bullets that he had purchased to load in his swede. I loaded up some 120 x's. They group about .5 moa and are loaded just under max. I wouldn't think twice about using them... hope that helps..... oh yeah DU4064 is my friend

[BulletBradley]

I have tried the tsx by barns and they come apart to quick, I slowed them down, and speed them up, and they put a 1/4 in plus entry wound with no exit. But they make true solids for the large calibers. I think i need some in 264

[Graybeard]

You really don't want a non expanding solid for hogs especially not in such a small bore. The best bullet placement on hogs really is a head ie. brain shot or neck ie. spine shot. I take it you are shooting for the heart/lung area and perhaps wanting to penetrate the gristle shield. That is asking a lot of any bullet on over 300 pound hogs especially boars.

The Barnes bullets cannot truly come apart sure they can and do shed the petals but that's really not the same as coming apart like a cup and core bullet. If they are not penetrating all the way thru you need a heavier bullet. I'm not sure how heavy Barnes makes but a 140 should get thru if any will. I'd go to the 160s if I wanted full penetration from any 6.5 bore and the Nosler is as good as it gets in a lead core bullet only the solid copper bullets are likely to give more penetration.

Don't expect a blood trail from such a small diameter bullet on hogs. The thick fat layer will move over and seal the hole and blood loss for a trail is not likely. Oh it might happen and you might have a faint trail but not much of one. For that you need a much larger bullet.

Do as makes you happy of course but changing to a head/neck shot rather than chest will drop your hogs much faster and is truly the best bullet placement on hogs IF you can make the shot when the hog is visible to you. That might not always be possible however. With such a small bore round on truly large hogs go heavy and use stoutly made bullets and accept what it gives you but don't expect miracles from the bullets if you insist on hitting the gristle plate. I've seen a 300 grain .375 H&H fail to exit on an approximately 400 pound hog when it was so placed.

[BulletBradley]

I agree with you on the shot placement in the spine, it works, it pissed a few of them off but one more shot finished them. the barns tsx did what you described, the petals came off. But graybeard, out of the 260 Rem belive it or not the 100 grain partitions work the best so far.
I have tried 120 and 140 the 120 works but the 140 stops to quick. I tried placement shots with different loads to se how they penatrated the hogs, and so far the best penatration has been the 100 grain partitions. We have never had hogs on our ranch, this year they showed up in herds. My best day of pig shooting was 11 hogs in 6 hours. I have a problem and need to make sure my bullets are truley doin the job of eratication, I grow cows not sows and do not care for streching fence all day

[Graybeard]

One thing about a hog eradication situation such as yours is that you really don't have to care so much about recovery of them as you do just killing them as your real ultimate goal is to rid yourself of as many as you can. So whether the bullet exits or not isn't so important as just making sure the hog dies within a reasonable time period. Sure it's good eating and recovery of as many as possible is nice but it seems what you want and need are fewer hogs so just making them die is the primary goal. For that a solid might work if it punches both lungs or the heart but if it's off and fails to do that it likely will not kill at all. I'd stick with expanding bullets. Use whatever works best.

In a pest eradication program I subscribe to the theory that any dead one is a good one and pain and suffering of it is not a primary consideration. Just make sure you get a bullet into all you can period and you'll make some progress but you'll never eradicate them now that you have them. Trapping is really the most successful method of removing them however.