hog shot placement with a bow?

[TimHicks]

Please remember == a hog needs a clean and quick kill just like a deer . I like a hot right behind the shoulder quartering away directly into the shoulder. This other than a head shot or a neck shot with a good gun is the quickest and best way.

[hoytboy]

thanks for all of the advice!!!

[NTex]

Rifle = Ear
Bow = Behind shoulder

[jfk47]

Rifle = Ear
Bow = Behind shoulder

I agree ! ! !

[Bigdeer33]

head shot, right behind the ear.

[rocky]

Where's Mary or Joey on this?

[dwright8]

The neck shot is not a option for me. The only way to drop a pig in it's tracks with a neck shot is to spine them. On a broadside shot I aim for the front shoulder on the lower 3rd of the pig just above the elbow. The pig in the pic below was slightly quartering away otherwise I would have tried to put the arrow about 2 inches to the left.

PERFECT!!!

[Buckey07]

Quartering away behind the shoulder. Especially on larger hogs, you get much better penetration with your arrow that way, at least thats what I have found through the years.

[Cuz]

Nice shot!
Put your arrow here quartering away.Nothin to slow it down but heart and a little bit of lung.

[BIG RED BOWHUNTER]

The First Pig I Killed With A Bow, I Shot In The Neck And He Didn't Even Make It Out Of The Feeder Pen. That Being Said.....i Wasn't Aiming At His Neck....it Was An Incredibly Poor Shot Due To A Little Bit Of Pig Fever And I Feel I Just Got Lucky....all Others Are Low And Behind That Shoulder

[SaltwaterSlick]

Red, I've done the exact same thing... I guess when it is a pig's time to go, it is just his time....

[BIG RED BOWHUNTER]

I Hear Ya.....i Let It Fly Saw It Hit And Let Out A Couple Of Expletives....then The Dang Thing Started Wobbling And Fell Right Over....i Guess That Was One Time That Old Saying Is Right....better To Be Lucky Than Good!

[huntresss]

hoytboy- we outfit hog hunts here on our ranch and have the privelege of tracking between 100 and 150 wounded hogs each year with our bloodtracking dog. We get to analyze every bad shot to see what went wrong and most often folks simply don't hit both lungs to kill a hog. In order to kill a hog with a neck shot, you have to hit either the carotid artery, or spine it (a jugular hit may or may not kill it). When you consider that the carotid is only less than a 1/2" in diameter, and the spine slightly more then that, you're taking a very risky shot that's not likely to end up in a dead hog. We've also found that if you don't hit either the aorta or heart when taking a quartering shot, then a hog that's hit in only one lung can survive for months. Unlike deer and elk where both lungs collapse when you puncture the thorax, a hog's lungs are more like a human's where they can survive on one lung. Just like the person who collapses a lung in a wreck and then drives themself to the hospital, a hog will run on one lung until it eventually dies of infection. In order to assure a swift, clean kill here, we recommend our guests only take perfectly broadside shots, 4-5" directly above the elbow (the stomach comes up to about 1" to 1.5" behind the elbow on a hog, and alot of folks gut shoot hogs by shooting behind the elbow like they would a deer). Also, the spine dips down well below the halfway point in the front of the hog's chest and we find alot of hogs with broadheads in their backstrap. I did a cut-down on the hog above and then painted the lungs red and the heart purple to show their placement. I didn't even include the liver because it's not even worth mentioning if you're wanting to kill the animal instead of wounding it. Hogs have a reputation for being tough to kill, but in nearly every case we find it's due to poor shot placement and nothing else. We kept statistics our second year doing this because it seemed as though there were an inordinate number of hogs wounded, and found that the wounding rate was between 30 and 65 percent depending on the type of equipment used. Every single wounded hog that we tracked was the result of poor shot placement, including hogs hit in one lung by hunters taking quartering-away shots. Hope this helped answer your question without boring ya too much!
-Cheryl Napper

[gonehuntin68]

hoytboy- we outfit hog hunts here on our ranch and have the privelege of tracking between 100 and 150 wounded hogs each year with our bloodtracking dog. We get to analyze every bad shot to see what went wrong and most often folks simply don't hit both lungs to kill a hog. In order to kill a hog with a neck shot, you have to hit either the carotid artery, or spine it (a jugular hit may or may not kill it). When you consider that the carotid is only less than a 1/2" in diameter, and the spine slightly more then that, you're taking a very risky shot that's not likely to end up in a dead hog. We've also found that if you don't hit either the aorta or heart when taking a quartering shot, then a hog that's hit in only one lung can survive for months. Unlike deer and elk where both lungs collapse when you puncture the thorax, a hog's lungs are more like a human's where they can survive on one lung. Just like the person who collapses a lung in a wreck and then drives themself to the hospital, a hog will run on one lung until it eventually dies of infection. In order to assure a swift, clean kill here, we recommend our guests only take perfectly broadside shots, 4-5" directly above the elbow (the stomach comes up to about 1" to 1.5" behind the elbow on a hog, and alot of folks gut shoot hogs by shooting behind the elbow like they would a deer). Also, the spine dips down well below the halfway point in the front of the hog's chest and we find alot of hogs with broadheads in their backstrap. I did a cut-down on the hog above and then painted the lungs red and the heart purple to show their placement. I didn't even include the liver because it's not even worth mentioning if you're wanting to kill the animal instead of wounding it. Hogs have a reputation for being tough to kill, but in nearly every case we find it's due to poor shot placement and nothing else. We kept statistics our second year doing this because it seemed as though there were an inordinate number of hogs wounded, and found that the wounding rate was between 30 and 65 percent depending on the type of equipment used. Every single wounded hog that we tracked was the result of poor shot placement, including hogs hit in one lung by hunters taking quartering-away shots. Hope this helped answer your question without boring ya too much!
-Cheryl Napper

Great post, Thanks Cheryl

[JW]

Like the pic, low and somewhat in the leg. High and behind the shoulder usually equates to a very hard and long bloodtrail...