Dan, what sorcery is this? I've been scouring the web all AM and cannot find out what type of rifle this is. It looks awesome!
Is an Ion Pulse Cannon from the T/C custom shop that I won from Cpt. Kirk on a bet. We were drinking one night in the Enterprise lounge with some Klingons after the war was over and I suggested he didn't have the nads to make one of them wenches howl. He got all huffy and called BS on that so I pointed and said "You're on."
He folded up right there on the spot and muttered something about "wenches, not hogs. I have a reputation to uphold."
* T/C Contender Carbine w/tupperware handles, .22 short match chamber, 20" barrel. Millet SP-1 3 MOA red dot. Clean barrel and check on the zero...
The other barrel is a .30-30 Win.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
Rumor has it Barbarian Dan uses this as his dedicated pig gun. And at times feels over gunned.
Actually that's not far off base. I'm gonna whack a pig with this one in a few weeks or...whenever. .17 caliber Zimmersteutzen what uses a 4mm RF blank to drive a lead BB.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
But for the 400 yards part, I'd say use anything you want. With that requirement, though, I'd say .270W, .308W, etc., with a 22"-ish barrel. Whatever handles best for you. And I don't think your .260 is a wrong answer, at all.
My farthest shots on hogs have been right at 100 yards: .223 (64 grain SP) and .300WM (168 TSX) both dropped them neatly.
Those damned pictures that Steelhead put up made me get my own .300 Savage a while back, & I like it awfully well. If I could actually see to 400 yards, I'd not be afraid to press the trigger of that rifle on a hog at that distance.
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It was me, I'd just use the .260 you already have. Otherwise, if you must, pick up a used M99 in either .308 or .300 Sav, mount a FX-II 4x33 and kill stuff.
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