Thank you for answering my questions folks. Now, to be more specific, lets assume that I am shooting Rocket 3 blade Steelhead 100s out of a bow that is generating roughly 70 ft. lbs of KE (270 fps-430 grain arrow). Do you folks that have experience with hogs think this is satisfactory setup to achieve a complete pass through on most of the hogs out there? (assuming proper shot placement and a well tuned bow)

Frank.

With 70 # of KE I dont think you would have a problem on average sized pigs. But you could run into problems if it was a really big boar say over the 300 mark.
I would still recomend a good fixed blade broadhead tho

These animals are the toughest animals your gonna get in Nth America and can be very dangerous I have a scare on my leg as proof of that

I personaly witnessed a shot (I was ten tree' s away) my buddy took on a ~250# boar with a sidewinder. (The scale was missing in camp, but both of us couldn' t lift him onto his 700 polaris, we had to use my quad to drag the hog onto his rear rack.)
He shot it about where you' d shoot a deer, and got a pass through with the arrow falling out the other hole about 15 yards down the trail the pig left on. He shot it a little behind where most of the sheild was. The sidewinder opened just on the other side of the fat layer, but before the ribs. This pig still went ~ 80 yards before pileing (SP?) up.
He shot another larger pig with this same broadhead without getting a pass through. He said it only went 30 yards before expiring. Upon gutting the boar he said the lung area was nothing but jelly.

He was using an older (but great) Mathews 3d-pro with ~80# pull shooting some overdraw cut down aluminums at @ 270 fps. Not sure what his K/E was, but it was up there.

I personally lost two out of three pigs last year using a 1" cut 4 balde fixed broadhead. I feel it was the smaller cut that cost me as both the pigs I lost had what looked like perfect pass throughs. Plenty of blood for ~80-150 yards, and then nothing.
The one I did harvest only went about ~50-60# and was shot at a severe angle. DOA

Me personally, I plan on shooting my next pig with a large mechanical. If it' s a bigger pig I will wait on a quartering away shot. In my opinion, the more damage done will equal the less distance traveled after being hit.

True story!!

My brother shot a mechanical at a 200+ hog from a tree directly above. He uses either Rockets or Spitfires and I' m not sure which one this was. Anyway, he shot it a bit high and hit in the area where the head and neck come together, slightly to the right of the spine. He got about 4" penetration on the shaft! This was a 70 lb Mathews Q2. The hog jumped at the shot, then stopped and shook the arrow out, then walked off never to be seen again. These are tough animals for sure!!

Good thing he moved his foot out of the way.

Thanks for the advice guys. I do not anticipate pursuing them any time soon but it is nice to have the info when I do eventually head after them. I guess I need to take one of the Bowtech' s with me though instead of my regular hunting bow...

Frank.
Just take the Pat Dually and the hogs wont stand a chance
Those bows at 60# hit a lot harder than other bows set at 70#

Close. I was going to tote the Pat SC...70 lb, 30.5 inch draw...

I have killed a few hogs as we are run over with them down here in florida . I have used muzzy 100 3 blade heads with brand new blades and they worked well . The only other head I would consider would be a magnus 2 blade that was scary sharp . The sheild is made up of fat but its not your normal fat its like hardened concrete fat and is very hard to cut through . Down here it shows up on boar hogs when they get to about that 150 lb size and when they get bigger than that it just gets thicker and tougher . A side note , I shot a boar last month that went about 200 lbs with my 30/30 he ran at the shot and I herd him crash around 100 yards away , when I went to the spot where he was standing at the time of the shot I found no blood . I followed his prints for 90 yards not one drop of blood
then on a fence post I found some blood and he was laying 10 yards away so the comment about them not bleading through the sheild is correct . It was a perfect shot right through the heart . I' ve seen it happen many times , they can be very difficult to track when they dont bleed . Their vitals are not further back than a deers vitals if anything they are a littel lower .

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