22 Hornet for pig, bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose?

[Ruggedsportsman]

Hoping the link above works as its the killshot video. I've been toying around with the idea of shooting a wild boar with my 22 hornet for a while now. All the ballistics I ran looked like it was more than enough so I worked up a load with the 45gn TSX moving 2900fps out of a 20" barrel. Sighted 1" high at 100 gives me a MPBR at 0-170 yards for a 2" target. Around 200 yards was the max distance before velocity dipped below 2k which I wanted to stay above. Shot this boar at 164 yards quartering away behind the shoulder, impact velocity 2100fps, full pass through double lung. First photo is the entrance, second photo is the exit behind the opposite shoulder. Got good expansion based on the exit wound and lungs. Wish I found the bullet. Clipped the rear edge of the lung on the way in and center punched the opposite lung lobe. Ran 40 yards and died. Good blood trail too.


Hoping

 

[RWT]

Enough speed with the right projectile everything dies.

 

[Steve O]

Nice work! The 22 Hornet is an awesome little round.

 

[CJ_BG]

Three of my cousins (father and his two boys) have a combined 70+ deer with a 22 hornet and 45gr soft point factory load. They just sneak up on them in the grape vines to usually about 50yds and put it into the lungs. Deer usually run 50-80yds and fall over. It's always fun hunting with them because you know immediately when one of them shot because of how different the hornet sounds.

 

[Ruggedsportsman]

Three of my cousins (father and his two boys) have a combined 70+ deer with a 22 hornet and 45gr soft point factory load. They just sneak up on them in the grape vines to usually about 50yds and put it into the lungs. Deer usually run 50-80yds and fall over. It's always fun hunting with them because you know immediately when one of them shot because of how different the hornet sounds.

Wish I could run a lead bullet but I’m in CA.