Where to shoot pigs?
10-28-2008, 07:30 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 17
Where to shoot pigs?
I am just starting to hunt texas this year so i have never hunted with pigs before and i am wondering where i should shoot a pig becuase i have shot several right where i am supposed to that looks like a heart shot whe they are perfectly broadside and only found a little bit of blood. the only one i have ever killed was the one that i shot quertering away. i dot know if that matters or not.
thanks.
thanks.
10-29-2008, 12:19 AM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kodiak, AK
Posts: 2,877
RE: Where to shoot pigs?
Since you killed one then you probably noticed the hard tallow "armor" covering the shoulder area. Hit them a little farther back than you would a deer and wait for the quartering away shot whenever possible or broadside but never anyhting even remotely quartering forward. I got lucky on my first and just happen to have a perfect quartering away shot since nobody told me about the shoulder plating.
10-29-2008, 04:53 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 4,487
RE: Where to shoot pigs?
ORIGINAL: bscofield
Don't go to the trouble of shooting a pig... just find a picture of someone else who has and post it here and say you killed it.
Don't go to the trouble of shooting a pig... just find a picture of someone else who has and post it here and say you killed it.
10-29-2008, 05:53 AM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: May 2005
Location: One mile east of West Podunk Tx
Posts: 5,973
RE: Where to shoot pigs?
Where in Tx are you hunting? I've killed dozens of hogs with a bow here in Tx. Some I shoot in the neck although only with a close up shot. Most I'll shoot behind the shoulder. A pig doesn't always leave a very good bloodtrail. The thick hair soaks up a lot of blood so you may not find much on the ground for quite a ways. Persistance is the key to trailing a hog. Also check out the hogs and exotics forum.
