Tell us how the 130 grain AR Hybrid does on the hogs.
My experience with the Berger 6.5mm 130 gr OTM Hybrids on game out of my 260 Rem (~ 2960 fps) is that they are rather explosive. My wife hit a cow elk low in the brisket with this bullet at ~ 500 yards. It ripped about a 3" diameter 'trench' along the bottom of the chest cavity. It bled like you had pulled the drain plug on it and it went down pretty fast.
A mule deer hit high shoulder at ~ 100 yards on the run left about a 2.5" - 3" diameter hole in-and-out. Other kills (mule deer and antelope) showed similar damage, but to a lesser extent. The trend seems to be big entrance wounds and lots of damage. Nothing has walked away from them yet. I'm trying the 143 gr ELD-x this year in place of the 130 OTM's. I was hoping for something less explosive and less meat damaging, but so far this does not appear to be how its working out.
I have used the .338 cal 300 gr OTM Hybrids out of a 338 Lapua (~ 2840 fps) on big game for quite a few years with great results. Everything from Bison and moose to elk and deer. I considered switching to the hunting hybrids, but really didn't want anything more frangible/explosive that the OTM's. They usually provide more than enough expansion for my needs. They seem to hold together better on bigger animals and be more explosive on smaller game. They just about rip coyotes in half.
Of the three bison that have been taken with this bullet by us (mine, a buddy's, and my wife's, 5 shots total) only one shot exited. The rest of the bullets were recovered just under the hide on the opposite side from impact, even on the shot that broke down both shoulders of a big bull. The recovered bullets were found mushroomed with the jackets intact and ~ 60% - 80% weight retention.
Strangely on elk it appears that the bullets shed their jackets more frequently. In one case I took a spike elk at about 650 yards with a shot placed through the front shoulders. It rolled about 50 yards down the hillside. For whatever reason I went up and walked the trail that it was on when I shot and found a rather complete (opened/flattened) copper jacket laying on the dirt at the 'down-range' edge of the trail. No signs of kicked up dirt or impact, it looked like it had exited and just fallen gently to the ground. In other cases we've found fragments of the jacket around the wound channel, but I can't recall this bullet ever failing to exit an elk.
I've also had a few behind-the-shoulder, chest cavity impacts on elk where the animal didn't drop immediately and the wound looked more reminiscent of a traditional 'hunting bullet'; small entrance hole and 1/2" - 1" diameter exit, similar to what I've seen with Barnes or Partitions, but with maybe a bit more internal damage and jacket fragments than the hunting bullets.
I don't use the 338 Lapua and 300 OTM's on deer or antelope anymore. The wounds and meat loss were just plain ridiculous and embarrassing.
I've yet to have a 'pencil-hole' wound or needed to follow a blood trail with the OTM's. That said, out of habit I've always taken a box of loaded OTM Hybrid rounds and segregated the ones with 'more open' tips to the front of the box and used them for hunting, while using the rest for practice and zeroing.
