i was absent from the forum last week because I was hog hunting. We saw 17 hogs in one herd and I got a shot off. But all disappeared into the brush. I checked to see if there was any blood trail but found nothing... the range when I shot was 250 yards.
Please excuse my absence. I went wild hog hunting.
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Say it ain’t so!
I was working at a friends weekend place and had the hogs all milling around at about 50yds. Took a shot with my bow, they all ran off. Went over to the spot to look for blood, found my arrow looked like it had been painted red. Two and one half hour search found a little blood but no pig. Search the next morning with swamp buggy, no pig. Watched for buzzards the next couple of days, nothing. Just cause you didn't drop at pig doesn't mean you missed, they are way tougher than people think.
wedgy
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The heart is in a little different spot on a pig compared to deer
, if shooting a bow it's good to tuck the arrow in the arm pit quartering away so you don't have to penetrate the armor plate on the shoulder. A lot of people end up gut shooting them, they are tough critters and will keep going until they don't have a drop of blood left.
Pigs are a ton of fun to hunt !
PS; a school of pigs is called a sounder !
, if shooting a bow it's good to tuck the arrow in the arm pit quartering away so you don't have to penetrate the armor plate on the shoulder. A lot of people end up gut shooting them, they are tough critters and will keep going until they don't have a drop of blood left.Pigs are a ton of fun to hunt !
PS; a school of pigs is called a sounder !
Where were you hunting?
Head shot if you want to keep it gut shot if you want them gone
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
That dude is the running boar master
A good friend got me on Vandenberg AFB just west of Lompoc CA.
Monte F
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That must be a good friend to be able to do that, not many get on there without a high clearance.
It was a red dot of some sort. He practices on a simulation screen type thingy all the time. Practice practice practice.
joshb
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If I tell you the story of my first hog hunt, you might feel better.
We were invited to a cousin’s 70th birthday surprise party. It was being held at their “cabin” on a private hunting ranch, just east of Dallas, Texas. At the party, some of the men were talking about doing a hunt the next day and I was invited to join them.
The next morning at 6, I was handed a 700 in 243 and a 1911(“just in case”).
We climbed on 4 wheelers for a short 30 minute ride to “our area”. About 6 hours of hiking thru the Texas heat went by before we finally found a small pack of hogs. We managed to sneak up to within 50 feet of them in the thick brush. I had my crosshairs on the eye of a big sow when all of a sudden, the guy 50 feet to my right opens up with his semi auto. I tried to find a good shot in the resulting melee’, but those hogs were moving too fast and the brush was too thick. When the smoke cleared we discovered that none of the twenty shots the guy fired had hit anything.
We hiked for three more hours and never saw another hog.
We were invited to a cousin’s 70th birthday surprise party. It was being held at their “cabin” on a private hunting ranch, just east of Dallas, Texas. At the party, some of the men were talking about doing a hunt the next day and I was invited to join them.
The next morning at 6, I was handed a 700 in 243 and a 1911(“just in case”).
We climbed on 4 wheelers for a short 30 minute ride to “our area”. About 6 hours of hiking thru the Texas heat went by before we finally found a small pack of hogs. We managed to sneak up to within 50 feet of them in the thick brush. I had my crosshairs on the eye of a big sow when all of a sudden, the guy 50 feet to my right opens up with his semi auto. I tried to find a good shot in the resulting melee’, but those hogs were moving too fast and the brush was too thick. When the smoke cleared we discovered that none of the twenty shots the guy fired had hit anything.
We hiked for three more hours and never saw another hog.I thought it was called a target rich environment.
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