Originally Posted by
falcon
Good for you.
Since 2000 i've killed hundreds of wild hogs, mostly with muzzleloaders. For years i hunted hogs at least two days per week. Presently i usually hunt hogs one day per week.
Forgive me for not buying into the hogs are tough as rhinos stuff. They are easy to kill when hit in the right spot. i don't rightly know where the hog that is the subject of this thread was hit, nor do i care. i do care that the hog ran off to suffer; the only hog to get away wounded in years.
Couple years ago i started hunting wild hogs with patched round balls, but not exclusively. When hunting with iron sighted conventional muzzleloaders i limit my shots to 75 yards due to old eyes. My .54 TC FireHawk muzzleloader is scoped and i've killed wild hogs at ranges of 125-140 yards with patched round balls fired from that gun.
No, i don't buy your stuff that round balls are not effective on hogs past 50 yards.
IMHO that statement of yours I put in bold makes absolutely no sense. You say you don't know where he was hit. Why not, since I would hope you know where you were aiming and assuming you know what you're doing it should have been in an open enough spot to take the shot. Why then would you follow that up with a statement that you don't care where it was hit? You should both know where the animal was hit at the distances you say you're shooting and certainly care about where it was hit since it ran off and you didn't find it! My earlier comment about shooting them below the ear and they won't go anywhere was based on the fact that I'm always in an elevated stand where I have the time to wait for that shot and shooting from a stand is as solid as bench rest shooting. Hunting on the ground like some of you are and with what you are will certainly take some skill and knowledge of when and how far to shoot compared to the way I mentioned.