TINY bullet BIG PIG!!

[Rallyshark]

No meat aside, I'm still smiling about this one   I think it will be hard for me to top this, but that doesn't mean I won't try.  Thanks again for all the kind words too!  I previously killed a 100lb pig with my old Bullboss .22, and it was only barely more power than this .177.  The larger boar with a smaller caliber is definitely more rewarding.  I do plan on going back at the first opportunity, to get my .22 it's first large game kill, and put some meat in the freezer.  I won't lie though, if a 300+lb boar with good cutters walks out, I WILL take that shot.  I have full confidence in my .22 in the 65-75 fpe range, and it is just as accurate.  I have countless slugs that didn't work to prove I put the work in finding the slugs to make it a laser.

Don't think I'm done with the .177 ice pick shooter either!  I have a couple of different barrel blanks in the pipeline that I hope to get my hands on soon.  They are 650mm barrels with faster twists of 16" and 14.5".  I'm hoping that extra couple of inches of barrel and twist will be the recipe I need to get this gun to it's full potential with the heavier 20-24 grain slugs   I'd love to be able to get it to work well with a solid 50 fpe tune.  The silence of this gun is nuts, and that's part of the reason I like it so much.  .177 combined with a larger NC LDC make it downright deceptive.  The slug hitting the animal is louder than the gun by a long shot.  When that little slug hit that pig, it sounded like somebody walked up to him and slapped the #$% out of him, LOL! 

I think a Rainstorm or Sumatra .177 would be a pretty sweet build!  Basically any gun with power to spare is a good candidate, because it takes a lot of effort to get these little bitty bullets up to these power levels.  If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, but an FX 700mm slug liner in .177 would be an awesome thing to get our hands on... 

[screwwork]

Congrats on the bruiser of a boar, that was one heck of a shot with the ole .177 airgun. 
All of your hard work paid off in the end and still work to be done testing more barrels & ammo.
I wished we could hunt pigs over bait & with an airgun here in Commiefornia, it would be a real hoot and fun to take a porker with an airgun.

[AncientSword]

Congrats! That is a big pig. Love seeing small calibers get the job done with work and skill.

[Rallyshark]

Congrats on the bruiser of a boar, that was one heck of a shot with the ole .177 airgun. 
All of your hard work paid off in the end and still work to be done testing more barrels & ammo.
I wished we could hunt pigs over bait & with an airgun here in Commiefornia, it would be a real hoot and fun to take a porker with an airgun.

Wow, they're doing their best to ruin your fun over there   In south GA, and most other places, the pigs are downright pests.  Most jurisdictions allow you to kill them by most any means necessary.  They cause billions of dollars in damage in the southeast US for sure.  I wonder if there's a loophole where you could bait them with something that grows there that they are already feeding on?   Like fruit from local trees or crops etc.? 

[Nomadic Pirate]

Makes me wanna buy a Rainstorm in .17

Or if,  you can get your hands on it, a Sumatra carbine in .17
Your ears may have to duck, you'd be grinning that wide.

I think a Storm .17 would be a beast,....sooo tempted.

[mrbulk]

I think a Storm .17 would be a beast,....sooo tempted.

“You only live once...” 

I myself am in the middle of trying to justify why I need an FX Wildcat MkIII...   

[PumaCarl]

Nice job smoking that bacon! Too bad you didn't get to enjoy it but at least you have a great memory to keep.

[Sqrl Klr]

Excellent! You slapped him into the next life Donny congrats and I hope you get to post about your 300lb porker someday too!