I've got a good hog this year - a boar with a quartering away shot. He went 70 yards and laid down. Two weeks before my buddy got a huge sow with his old Hoyt. Problem is there are other hogs in there much larger than these 120-250lb models. Got pictures but don't know how to get them less than 30kb...

Normally that wouldn't be a problem but the bigger boars can run the 350 or so yards to the fenceline where they cannot be recovered - at least by us. The property we hunt (USNF) and opportunity is just too small unless I can identify an absolute kill shot. Quartering away through the heart seams to slip the broadhead under the armor and anchor them - but after this last weekend we've agreed that we won't take anymore shots without someone to stop the pig before they become unrecoverable. Even if that means a shotgun with a rifled slug! I hate loosing an animal. I hate to have to reduce to a shotgun backup to recover my hams though too.

A couple days ago I shot a huge boar with a broadside shot at 23 yards. Now this was the classic picture - but the boar / 350-400lb+ class with a head like a horse, soaks it up and runs onto a private "p" and gets taken by the gun hunters sitting over there. Pass through both shot - even with all that armor - arrow stayed in and he sprayed from both sides all the way to the fence - only to be claimed by the "neighbors". Running on pure adrennilyn (sp). That's tough with posession 9/10ths of the law and all - may have to give up on that spot.

There isn't much opportunity to hunt public land pigs where I live so its a tough pill to take.

Alternatively - Question - is there a shot on hogs - specifically big boars - since the sows seam to go down quicker - that you've found more effective at anchoring boars.

There would always be a risk - but I'd like to minimize it without my other friend and the slug gun. I'm shooting a Hoyt Cybertec or a Mathews MQ1 at 68lbs 29 1/2"draw - carbon extreme with 100gr thunderheads. If I change to a larger diameter broadhead maybe? What's it take to slow those trains down? Right now we are reserving ourselves to shots of less than 20 yards - quartering away and exiting out the front shoulder with the backup man 300 yards away. Other than that we're taking a nice walk.

If you're looking for guarantees you're in the wrong sport. Put it in the boiler room and hope for the best. I don't think a pig would be "running the 350 yards" to the private land if the arrow was in the right place. YOu have to get up right against the shoulder on a hog to hit the lungs. They aren't as far back as a deers. At close range even slamming through the shoulder would take them out if you have a half decent setup with a cut on contact head.