You sound like you are doing alright. Just some bad luck is all. Usually when you don't get a pass through, it is because you hit the arm on the opposite side. With pigs, the heart lies literally at the bottom of the chest just behind the armpit. It's a good idea to aim for the elbow. That's probably the best place to aim. You hit low, you hit the heart. Lungs if you are right on and high is also lungs but if you hit higher, your gonna get a bad blood trail. You really have some trophy sized pigs over there. They probably have really heavy pads. The pads won't extend to much below the elbow so on huge boars like the one you shot, for best penetration (even though you should be able to get a pass through even through the pad) you should aim low and you will always get clean pass throughs great blood trails, and the animal will go down quickly. I don't know how the sow went that far. She must had been tough.

My NAP thunderhead 85 grains drop pigs in the same distance and that is just out of my 45 pound compound. The bow is also capable of getting pass throughs on pigs. Or at least it would if I didn't always hit the arm on the other side.



Nic