Just got back from hogs…

[highpoint]

We have the green light and the hogs stay at it, they don't mind. I've taken a couple shots at them in the dark like that and it's really hard to pick a spot to hit. Again, distance and shot placement solves that but taking longer shots is tough enough in daylight! I've missed 3 or 4 shooting under the green light. For whatever reason I shoot low in the dark. Last time out I watched the hogs at the feeder with my thermal imager which killed my natural low light adjusted vision in one eye, making things difficult for me. There are so many pigs at this place you're basically stuck in the blind after you shoot. We got out to go look for the last one after the hogs scattered, and we're sorting things out in the dark and while I was standing there looking for blood I smelled the pigs, then I could hear them coming back to the feeder yet again. I was maybe 15' from them before they smelled me. I heard that same guttural note descending that you hear in one of those videos very clearly. The last shot I took was very dark and close up. I saw the illuminated nock disappear and then reappeared past the hog I shot at broadside. I thought "well that's a clean pass through, I got him, we need to find that one." Arrow was lying there in the dirt, clean. That one was a head scratcher.

Moral of the story is choose shots carefully so they don't get far. I'm heading back out again on the 28th.

[Terry Green]

Do you ever practice shooting in the dark? I have no idea how many hogs i've killed at night.But I can tell you, I haven't missed more than two. I'm really not sure what the issue is, but I don't understand missing all these hogs, just because it's dark. You have them lit up, I can't figure out why you can't shoot them in the vitals. A correctly shot hog should go no further then, thirty the thirty five yards period end of story.

We're all about success, stories and hero pictures. But please do not bring back another story of how you wounded one and didn't find it. Thank you.

[pdk25]

So many things. If you are missing hogs after dark, you need to practice, but you also need to start using references on your bow. The hog will be illuminated, but you won't be able to see your arrow. That doesn't stop you from seeing your site window and figuring out your elevation. Based on that figure out the height on your site window for your point on at your desired shooting distance. I know this for all of my bows, because I used to kill a lot of hogs at night. And here is another thing. You really don't need to be sitting in the blind after dark.  Get closer if you have to.

[highpoint]

Dark practice starting now......and I hate the blind for sure. Have to also practice shooting our of the window.