Lost a BIG BOAR

[m'gobo]

I know they get bigger if you don't find them but this was truely a bruiser. My buddy shot him tonight with a .308 in the lung area from about 130yrds. For the 1st 50 yrds we tracked chunks of something red. looke to me like lung or something. After about 100 yrds, I started circling looking for a body. My buddy stayed on the trail but the chunks of what ever turned into moderate blood at best then just drops. We never found the hog. I can't figure out what went wrong. The chunks of stuff we were finding were the size of golf balls.

[Bowwiz]

Hogs are the toughest **** critters i've ever hunted,i killed a 3 legged gunshot hog with maggots coming out of the wound- and it took a arrow thru the top of both lungs and still ran like hell for 1/4 mile before dying.

[m'gobo]

I hear ya bowwiz. I have shot them with a bow and watched them pile up and have shot them with a bow and never found them. I have never lost one to a rifle though.

[Br'er_Henry]

I've only conected to a 150#+ sow with my ole golden eagle and found her 10 yards away from the hit point. Shot a big hog with a .243 and found him dead 3 days later (useless).. But the most awesome was watching that big hog on my property being shot with a .243.. fall like rock.. squeel a lot... rolled over two times... then getting back on his tracks and ran into the brush 200+ yds without leaving a single drop of blood.

Good luck with the big one next time.. hope we can have some good LDP's!

[Cocobulldog]

i shot one with a bow thru the liver and it was alive the next day running with the pack. It took a head shot wit a 44 mag. Look for a bedding area or a creek area. Their fat will clog up the hole and they will also go to mud to clog up the hole.

[m'gobo]

Thanks for the advice guys. Hopefully, if it was not a fatal shot, he will be back.

[Loneaggie]

Hogs are just plain tough. Small vital area, heavy bone structure, a dogged determination to live... just nature's version of a tank. I saw a 60#ish sow one night center masted with a .30-06 from 40 yards. The impact spun her like a top. I helped trail that pig for 200 yards before we finally lost the trail.

[The Greek]

"placement"

Tace your time.>>>----->HEART SHOT OR SPINE SHOT

[m'gobo]

I prefer head shots! Recovery distance....0!

[bzzboyz]

Call TTHA. Maybe they can help you find it.

[Eric4x4]

They are tough, to bad yall couldn't find him

[Hunt NXS]

when you think your aiming low enough, aim lower. We have taken close to 200 this year, bow and gun. We gut shoot most so we dont have to deal with them. I wish they would do a huge hog hunt on Hagerman and get these numbers down.

[bowsticker]

shoot them in the pig.

[meshmover67]

sometimes a hog will lay up and plug the hole with dirt and it loses the trail and lives a little longer

[txtimetravler]

HUNT NXS, please don't tell the world you gut shoot hogs!

That's horrible.