Planning a firsttime hog hunt.What setup do you use for hogs,arrow weight and broadhead???
Big ones, big set-ups. Tasty ones, my older 50# straight limb did it with no problem with 585g arrows.
Just killed 2 with a Dryad Epic recurve set at 52 lbs. Easton Epic 400 arrow. Zwicky No Mercy broadhead 135 grains with a 125 steel broadhead adapter. 550 grains total. 2 shots, 2 kills. No problems.
I only have the one bow. 70 pound recurve. I really want to try some hickory or ash shafts with a 145gr Ace Standard on the hogs. A friend of mine is going to Texas this week to hunt. I almost loaned him my bow and arrows but he cant shoot that much weight.
by the look of yer sig line yer good to go with the bow ... that and "aim small". shot placement is key, as is yer accuracy.
as to broadheads, i like the wensel woodsman.
terry's got some real good advice for hog hunting ............................
HOGS: These shot placement pics are based on broadside animals, so take into consideration if the animal is quartering where to aim to cross through the middle of the animals vitals with the greatest margin of error.
Hog vitals are a bit more tricky as they are angled up a bit as they go back...the same double lung shot on a deer could result in a gut shot on a hog.
Low and tight is good...low and back aint...the same shot low and back(yellow circle) would double lung if it was high and back(pink circle).....so again I aim for the middle right over the elbow for the greatest margin of error on a broadside shot (orange circle).
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/feralhog1a.JPG)
I quit shooting hogs 'low and tight' after I lost one due to it being 3 inches back. I now aim as I suggested above(orange circle).
Same low and back on the deer would kill it(orange circle)....
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/deer-anatomytg2a.JPG)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Guru39/anatomy%20pix/heartlunghog.jpg)
Again...Low and tight is good...low and back aint...the same shot low and back(yellow circle) would double lung if it was high and back(orange circle).....so again I aim for the middle right over the elbow for the greatest margin of error on a broadside shot.
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/heartlunghoga.jpg)
In this pic....the PINK circle gives you the greatest margin of error.
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/heartlunghogb.jpg)
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I've seen this posted for years on web sites...
"I like to shoot them quartering away to avoid the shield".
I've tried to explain that this is not the case on a shielded boar....So at Solana I got pics of Michael's boar to add to the shot placements thread sticked at the top, so they can do the talking.
This is a pic of a shielded boar and the location of just how far back the shield goes and that you are not going to avoid the shield by shooting quartering away unless you shoot behind the rib cage, and that is a dicey shot.
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/michshield2.jpg)
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/michshield1.jpg)
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/michshield3.jpg)
Also, if you do shoot quartering away, your are actually increasing the thickness of the shield you have to pass through because you are making the shield thicker by the quartering away angle.
I am not condemning a quartering away shot with this post, I've shot plenty that way. I'm just making folks aware that you are not going to avoid the shield.....unless of course you shoot that little soft pocked in the clip posted on the shot placement thread...and that soft spot can be shot broadside as well.
WOW LOOK AT THAT....GOOD INFO, THANKS FOR SHARING...
QuoteOriginally posted by EL Mejor:
WOW LOOK AT THAT....GOOD INFO, THANKS FOR SHARING...
All that is posted at the top...stickied...shot placement thread...
Here\\'s more... (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=099844#000000)
Aand even MORE (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=091325;p=1)
Any whitetail set up is more than enough.
"PICK THE RIGHT SPOT" and hit it!!
I know all about that yellow dot... :(
My set-up will be a 50lb.bigjim LB.with 600plus
ash arrow with mag-1s.50lbs at my 26in. draw.
Thanks for the great info guys.Pictures don,t lie.........
Good Luck Tim, I will be hog hunting next month and am quite excited.
Ray, why are you always yelling? :readit: :biglaugh:
2 blade head heavy arrow and at least 60 lbs of bow and dont shoot him in the neck
700 grain GT Trad with Grizzly single bevel broadheads....kills hogs dead on contact (with their spinal column).
Bought a whole bunch of GK Silverflames for the hogs and turkeys this spring.
The common thread seems to be HEAVY enough arrows with which I heartily concur! Have fun. If I only had 1 animal I could hunt, it would be hogs. Best, Todd
Yep, send a two blade to him with at least 525 grains of arrow. Wait for a quartering away shot and he will end up on the pit.
I've had much better luck with a broadside shots or just a very slight lets say 1/8 or 1/16 away shot. When they are quatering away it is to easy to hit them just in the gut since there lungs are so far forward. On broadside it is easy, I aim right up the leg, about a 1/3 of the way up and you have double lunged them. When hit like that they don't go far.
Location, location, location. Great advice (aim small; miss small).
48#@28 longbow(or 50# recurve), 590 grain carbon arrow(brass insert, 3 gpi weight tube, 125 grain Magnus 2 blade).
That set-up has blown through quite a few hogs, shield or no.