HuntingNet.com Forums - View Single Post - have you ever been charged by a hog
View Single Post
Old 09-03-2020, 05:17 AM
  #10  
Double Naught Spy
Fork Horn
 
Double Naught Spy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: North Texas
Posts: 242
Default

Originally Posted by hardcastonly
why on earth, this guy in that video, did not put a second arrow on the bowstring,
the second he released the first,
shot and draw it and aim it in anticipation,
and have it ready for that potential charge?
thats like archery hunting 101 !
like with every other weapon, you keep shooting until the game drops as long as its in range
even a less than ideally placed body shot on a wounded game animal is better,
than standing helplessly and useless and clueless , unprepared as the game charges or runs away!


If he could not learn that skill (a fast second shot with a bow)
he might want to spend $69 on a back-up plan to repel,
what might have been very expensive personal bodily damage
cold steel makes a semi-decent boar spear with a crossguard to keep the vindictive boar from advancing up the shaft once stuck through the body
I watch a LOT of hunting videos. I can say that I DON'T recall very many archery hunters immediately nocking a second arrow. Many are very experienced hunters. Some are 'professional' hunters. What is it they usually do? Admire their shot. Why do they not nock a second arrow in case a hog charges? Because it virtually never happens. They are more concerned in watching where the hog runs so that they can recover the hog

If they aren't going to nock a second arrow, then they aren't going to ridiculously try to produce a spear and get ready for a charge either, LOL.
Double Naught Spy is offline