First blood. Approximately a 120 - 140lb sow.
(Pig looks bigger due to perspective here)
I'd like to say this sow was 600+ yards away, but the truth is she was only about 175.
I went center-shoulder hold on a quartering-to shot, simply because I didn't know what to expect, and shooting her in the CNS seemed like the waste of an opportunity to see what this cartridge's capabilities are... a .223 would drop her doing that.
I watched the grass kick up behind her and she dropped her ass, raised her head in that convulsion pose...and then just fell over without so much as a twitch. Might as well have shot her in the head.
No entrance structure hit that I could tell. I think I went just under her near side scapula. The bullet crossed over the top and rear of the lungs (way too high for the heart), and it exited with only a out a nickel-sized hole (but did bring a lot of shattered off side rib bone with it). Not much blood at all until I started pressing on the exit, then it flowed. I imagine if she ran and tried breathing, there would have been a good trail.
Approximately 13-14" of penetration before exit.
This is an example of a theory that I do believe in - hydrostatic shock. Only broken bone I know of is the rib at the exit.
Maybe I can shoot a coyote off this sow in the next couple days.