Good post Jason. I thought about your hog and your hog shooting experience level when you shot him several times when I was posting on this thread. That was a great recovery but was certainly based more on our luck than skill. I remember us standing there talking about how a deer would have fallen in 50 yards from that shot and how the hog went ??? yards. It was a happy moment to find that porker! I was glad to have been there. We gotta do that again sometime soon. I haven't been on that place but about three times since you left but I still have the lease. Call me! CK

Jason, your picture of the liver shot shows exactly why so many people think hogs are so hard to kill.They shoot them like a deer and swear the hog is the toughest animal on earth.     Anything often is lost with a gutshot,which is what a lot of those great shots on hogs really are.     If you are not in or can't get an arrow around behind the shoulder you are in trouble in most cases.Great pics btw.

IMO there artistic drawings are for the birds....in this one for example the spine is too high thru the chest area. Which in turn puts the heart/lungs too high.....

Here's some "real" hog vital pix, the last pic tells it all....

http://www.texasboars.com/anatomy.html

Good stuff guys
Thank you.

QuoteOriginally posted by Littlefeather:
 We gotta do that again sometime soon. I haven't been on that place but about three times since you left but I still have the lease. Call me! CK

You name the time, buddy!

Guru, great site,,very helpful and informative,,

Where ya goin hawkin?

Caryonah Lodge in Tennessee.  Thanks for all the help guys    .

 

I am in no way a hog expert. I have only taken the one this weekend, but 7 others were taken as well.
this is a pic of a hogs ribcage when we split it down the spine. It shows how low the vitals would really be. Remember it is hanging so the opposite front leg is extended foreward.

This is a pic of the entrance wound on my hog. Again the leg is pulled forward. It was right in the crease, tight to the leg and it was angled slightly forward, exiting center of the leg muscle and about 1" lower( i was on a hill). It was right in the lower 3rd of the chest. He bled out FAST, but I could have been a little farther forward.
I was worried 'cause he was 600#'s and I was shooting a 49# longbow with a 430grain arrow.....so I held back a little. The 125 grain razor shark did a great job.

I can't resist showing him off again! sorry guys, it was my first longbow kill. If you look close you can actually see the exit in this pic. it is right in the back of the front leg muscle, a leaf stem is just sticking up to the left of it.

 

Yessir, I'd call that an acceptable shot that was most likely recovered without the aid of a tracking dog. Congrats on a very nice hog and an exceptional shot placement! That will drop them every time. CK

Hey Hawken is there a story that goes with that boar?

Hi Jeff,

I'll do a separate post with more photos and the tale as soon as I get a chance; hopefully by the end of the week (I'm swamped with work right now).

Paul

QuoteOriginally posted by Littlefeather:
Yessir, I'd call that an acceptable shot that was most likely recovered without the aid of a tracking dog. Congrats on a very nice hog and an exceptional shot placement! That will drop them every time. CK

Yup, blood came gushing out of both holes. In all my years of hunting I have never seen anything like it. he went down very quickly and in sight.

Hit one much like SkipMaster did it ran ten yardes and started throwing its shoulder into the air and banging its head against a Cedar.  Did that three or four times then went down.  I thought I had shot under it at 17 yards but I guess not.  Entered about 5" up and exited about 3" up straight through.  145 gran Ribtek on 2020.