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Congrats on a fine shot. Myself I won't shoot a hog with anything less than a 55 grain bullet. And that placed in the neck of spinal cord. But each to his/her own.

On the other hand it's a freaking hog! Kill it with a rock if that's all you've got!!!

I echo T_Inman. The .17 at those velocities is a way bigger hammer than you would think. I too had an older BDL pressed checkered .17 with the barrel cut to 20". It still ran about 3950 with less than hot loads and killed stuff really dead.

Oh yeah the old BDL has electrocuted the schit out of everything I’ve ever pointed it at. I have a few hundred Barnes Original .030 jacket soft points. Barnes says they never made any but I somehow ended up with them in sealed orange label boxes. Loaded up a box yesterday for my dangerous game loads. I wish they made TSXs in .172” it would be a giant killer for sure then.

My old buddy from Glenallen had killed 17 wolves and 8 bull caribou with his old BDL. He was a fan of the 25gr Hornady HP driven to about 3800fps with 3031. Hard to argue with his results but I’m a CFE223 fan.