HOG Hunting!!!!
 

A couple of buddies and I are going on a hog hunt in August. Which i can not be more exicited for. I never hunted hog before with my bow and i was doing some research and found that hogs are not a vasicular animal (they don't usually bleed out) and there heart and lungs are extremely small compared to other animals that i hunt regularly with my bow i.e. deer. So i was wounding if any one out here as any coments or suggestion about hog hunting and placement. I have been praticing regliously at the range and doing a lot of video hunts, where you shoot at the screen at animals in video clips. i am also worried about pass through on hogs becuase of the thickness of the skin. so if any one out there knows a little or a lot about hog hunting i would appericate some words of advice.

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I wish I could help you with this. I am also interested in doing a hog hunt. I subscribed to boar hunter magazine but it has not started yet. If I see anything in there I will let you know. Hog hunting just sounds like it would be a great time. Good luck in August. Oh and where are you going? I want to see pics when you get back.

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I outfit alot of hog hunts on my ranch and with bow hunting for them I go about shot placement in two different areas. Hogs have a big shoulder plate that pretty much covers their heart area. I shoot the hogs just like a deer when they have their front leg forward exposing their vitals. The second shot I like to take I guess is a quartering shot facing you. I put the arrow in at the base of their neck directly to the heart. Dont worry about pass throughs. It more than likely wont happen. But if you stick a hog with a broadhead in the heart that doesnt pass through as the hog runs off the head will continue to do damage. It will slice and cut as the hog moves. Hogs will blead out it just takes alot of damage to get them to. I use a 125gr muzzy fixed blade on gold tip xt's. I have tried using a mech head with less success. Good shooting.

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I just shoot them behind the shoulder, i try to get quartering away shots though. A good cut up front broadhead like magnus, zwikee, steel force, or any other, will do plenty of damage. I also like usin muzzys because of the extra blade, but because of the strong hide and bone, the blades are a little week.

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I would also like to go hog hunting with my bow someday and i just picked up some advice in here as well while reading this, thanks :)

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I don`t know if i can help much. But here it go`s I am not much of a hog hunter for the most part but i did take two very nice hogs on the opening day of deer season a few yrs back. One thing i did notice was nether one was a passthrough and i put the arrow right behind the shoulder using a thunderhead and they were standing broadside but nether one ran very far ether. I don`t think i would worry about a passthrough as long as you get into the lung and hart area.

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The lungs sit a little further forward and are smaller than those of a deer.
Snug it up close to that shoulder or if he's close... right through it.
If he's one of those monster 400-500 pound jobs...
don't be hitting the shoulder. I'd use a cut on contact
I think. This eating size hog was shot by me years ago
with a slow boat to china recurve at probably something
like 175 fps... Bear Razorhead(the old ones) with a clean passthrough.
It did pass through the offside shoulder.

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that would be me too,
my hog that i found was a quarting away shot,ran about 65 yards and died.... wasnt a complete pass through but i oonly shoot 55lbs. , it was at 17 yards....didnt bleed much at all at first, then i saw more and more.....i guess by her running through everything with it still in her made it easier as she went ...the one i lost would of been a lung shot but he jumped forward when i released....devastaing , i tell ya.......a monster, got a bad shot, leg and out the gut......horrible....but he bled ALOT...lost it in the cypress head, just to much water......but i do believe it would of been a good clean kill if he hadnt of jumped..... they've given you great advice , the only thing i can say is dont rush in after , give it time to die, you dont want to jump a wounded , especially a boar hog, lol......