Looking for a low recoil load for a 308 that still has good expansion and reasonable penetration on game up to the size of largish hogs.
Thinking a 110 GMX or TTSX at 3000 fps might do the trick ?
Have very limited experience with monos and no experience with the 110's, would appreciate advice before I start buying components.
The 110 grain Hornady GMX is actually designed for the Blackout. I use at with a muzzle velocity of 2805 fps in a 24" 30-30, and it does incredibly well. It opens wider and destroys more tissue than you'd typically expect from a mono. It penetrates more than enough to do the job but -- due to its wider expanded frontal diameter -- may not always exit. For hogs, it has proven its worth time and again. The same can be said for the Barnes TAC-TX 120 grain Blackout/AAC projectile and its lighter 110 grain counterpart.
The photos below are typical of what I expect from the 110 grain GMX.
Bullet performance was perfect on the 203-yard hog. If you look at the photo, you can see where the 110 grain GMX, launched from the 24-inch Van Horn barrel at 2805 fps by a book charge of Re-7, entered on the shoulder. It severed the plumbing above the heart, wrecked the lungs, broke a rib on the way out and stopped in the hide on the far side. The recovered bullet weighed 109.4 grains and measured .59 at its widest point.
The bullet in the photo below was a 120 grain Barnes TAC-TX Blackout bullet fired from a 30-30 at just over 2600 fps. I don't recall the exact range, but it was something around 160-170 yards. The bullet was taken from a brute of a boar and very nearly exited. Behind the bullet is a cutaway of the hog's shield, which has the consistency of hard rubber and can test the mettle of a bullet in a hurry.