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Well, my hog disappeared and my shot on Ben's hog missed, but we went ahead and stripped off the hide on both sides to look at the damage done by the Hornady SST 123 gr. round in this case. Chrono'd on two different occasions with different chronographs, I am getting a bit more velocity than usual out of my new rifle than might be expected.
I have always been a big fan of this round. It just plain works. In this case, it did not produce the massive permanent wound cavity seen by the Berger VLD-Hunting 130 gr. ammo I have been using recently, but it ruined everything in the neck and the muscle of the exit shoulder. While examining the tenderized tissue, I encountered several granules of dark, hard matter. I did not take the time to wash them thoroughly, but assume they are part of the bullet. On several previous hogs I have shot with the Hornady SST round, I find tiny pieces of lead and I am confident this was the case this time as well.
I did not find any jacket fragments or the base, though I did not spend a lot of time looking. This was all fairly cursory. I don't doubt that parts of the jacket are somewhere inside as well, as has been the case with previous hogs.
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