What rifle/caliber are you using? Glad you got it done.

Around here they use big game calibers on Boar. Way to often a person shoots one, it flops, gets back up again and takes off, never to be seen again.

I've only had it happen to me once, I shot straight on just above the eyes and the bullet traveled the entire length of the hog and exited. I found it three days later ravaged by scavengers.

They are also often hard to track, their hide is thick and seals quick, the blood stops.

The favored cartridge here is the 9.3X64, 225 grain at a round 3000 FPS (been around for most of a century for a reason). The 8X57 Mauser, 180 grain at a round 2700 FPS, being the second choice. The logic being, the bigger the hole the less likely the wound will stop bleeding and make a poor or unlucky shot easier to track.

I've been lucky so far, few of my Boar have run more than 30-40 yards after being shot. I've learned to pick my shots carefully.

Using a bullet that expands fast can also be a plus. It may mess up some meat, but the object is to leave a large wound channel, just in case.

We usually don't shoot the biggest Sow, reason being she is often what holds the sounder together. She dies and they get unpredictable and sometimes the sounder scatters. The lead Sow is the one that defines the territory, the leader and the one that sets the routine for the whole sounder. The sounder scatters and you may never see those hogs again in the same area.

Double Naught Spy seems to do well with his Grendel, Wouldn't be my first choice, but it seems to get the job done.