Gearing Up for a Large Boar -- Help from Experienced Hog Hunters Needed

[ahab78]

Thanks, Terry.

[Terry Green]

Make sure you read page 10 about how big boars use water as a barrier.

I also have stories about that

[RC]

I shoot gold tip trads with a 100 grain brass insert , 100 grain steel broad head adapter and 135 grain Simmons Tiger sharks. I keep the same arrow with a 140 grain grizzly in my quiver for a big pig. I honestly would rather kill a smaller pig for eating. I have two mounted and don`t care for another to mount. The really big boars are not the best to eat in my opinion.
   I guess I am lucky. I have killed well over 200 hogs with a stickbow and have never been charged.  RC

[Terry Green]

I hear your Robert ... you been lucky but I guess I've been lucky ......

I've been charged 4 times killed three of them and sidestepped the other one.

ahah78

As far as big boars and eating the ones I've killed yielded a ton of sausage it was absolutely delicious done by a local processor here where I live. That's about the best way to do a big boar if they are rank, otherwise you just have to trash them but you don't know until you kill them.

Personal preferences aside for eating, which I like smaller pigs as well, there is a great challenge of killing a huge boar hog.... it's a challenge of wits that is rivaled beyond a lot of other popular big game animals that can give you a huge confidence level for many future hunts.

Finding, hunting, and taking a giant boar hog such as what you are after is a huge accomplishment regardless.... make no mistake.

[ahab78]

Thanks, RC. I like the idea of having a good arrow setup but with two different broadheads in the quiver for different size hogs. I will try that. I've heard a lot of good reviews on the Grizzlies and Simmons.

[ahab78]

Thanks, Terry. We have a couple of hog killers around here and they recommend splitting the hog and putting him in a cooler and topping him with ice. Leave the drain on the cooler open and keep putting ice on him for two days. The ice/water combination apparently take the "game" out of the meat. I've only killed smaller hogs, but if I kill a larger one, I will definitely try that. Also, hogs have 6 or 8 glands in their fat throughout their body that need to be removed in cleaning them to keep from spoiling the meat when cooking.

As far as being charged goes, based on what everyone has told me, the threat is there but really unlikely, so I'm not going to let that bother me. Like I told Dendy yesterday, my brother and I were chased by a wild boar at my grandmother's house when we were kids, and that really scared us, so going out hunting for a large boar, that is always in the back of my mind, but this is also really a way for me to put that fear to bed. Besides, the challenge of taking such an animal is also in and of itself a huge accomplishment, especially with a traditional bow.

[Terry Green]

I had more information on charging ....situational issues... and I'm certainly not trying to scare you or deter you and anyway ...just trying to make you aware of certain things and scenarios.  Again good luck

[ahab78]

I appreciate it, Terry. You always need to know what you are up against. If 99% of encounters with boars don't result in any charging, there is still that 1% chance of it happening, and knowing my luck. Well....