Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
Your'e really stretching it when you say the shot would hit the jaw, as it would be way back from what most people would call the jaw area. Please tell me how if I aim where the reticle is placed on this pig picture how I'm going to shoot him in the jaw without being way off my mark. If I was that bad of a shot and hit the jaw I certainly wouldn't be aiming there, but shooting from a blind with a good rest it's like shooting at a paper target that doesn't move. The rifles I use also shoot under 1/2 MOA and in the type of scenario I'm describing it's much different than hunting from the ground doing spot/stalk like you're referring to.
I do believe that was my point. Some hunt from stands or blinds and have good solid rests so head shots are okay to take. But still hunting/spot and stalk is another world from that. DNS, many others, myself, very rarely stand or blind hunt hogs. Too much of a PITA with the ever changing wind directions and hogs will only SOMETIMES pattern where they come out.
Now, if you look on this one you will note that the rear of the lower jaw is not that far from a brain/brain stem shot (ear) and just a little raise of the head right when you start to squeeze off you will hit that instead of a brain.
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I'm just saying, Top, that for me, I take the higher percentage shot opportunity for my own personal situations. If I have a firm rest and a "quiet" hog I will take a base of the skull shot but more often than not I don't have a firm rest so I'll take the largest target presented. Not to mention also I am usually hunting whole herds so I wait till there are around 20+ hogs before I start shooting. Trying to eliminate as many hogs as I can. Can't sit there and wait for a head shot when the shooting has started. Most of the places I go have brought us in to help eliminate hog problems. I get a ton of meat for Hunters Feeding The Hungry program and the land owner gets fewer hogs. Which is why I've taken so many hogs. Some of the fellas I go on these trips with have taken well over 5000.
Flags, you are correct, we will have to agree to disagree bud because I have seen my share of charges on my own personal self from hogs that haven't even been shot yet. Hunting thick bush, they will come out tusks shining trying to swipe anything in their path. Just seen it too many times to say that it doesn't happen. Is it simple escape? More than likely yes, but MOST charges from MOST animals are simply the animal trying to get away. Sometimes the hunter is in the way and the animal is going to clear a path one way or the other. That in itself does not negate the fact that it's a charge. You are trying to say that a "charge" is an actual attack when in fact, most "charges" are simply an animal clearing the escape route. There is a difference. Actual attacks are rare, you are correct in that fact but they do happen.