Getting through the Hog's Sheild

[Ray Hammond]

I have seen several like that, Pat....interestingly, all of those sows seem to have never dropped a litter.

Their bellies are as flat as a pancake....and don't show any sign of ever having little ones like most sows seem to show.

I'm no scientist but maybe they are flawed in some way reproductively? I've never raised pigs, but have to guess that out of a huge population there have to be some born that cannot bear young, just as in humans?

[cacciatore]

A little bit late,but I guess the arrow is too weak,400grs up front on a 150 with 55#!You don't say what is your draw and arrow lenght but it really looks too weak.

[swampthing]

56# @28" arrow was 28.75"  those carbon stiffen quite rapidly as you shorten them.

[Ray Hammond]

Pat,

A new friend of mine, who worked for 30 years in a slaughterhouse tells me that for every thousand hogs there are several which are for all intents and purposes "hermaphrodites" in the sense that they have both male and female organs.

These sows will have a small 'set' buried up inside....instead of the outside like a male.

They are incapable of breeding and do have enough testosterone to act like a male in many respects.

Interesting, huh?

[swampthing]

Yup, so what does it take to get wood arrows to plow through?

[cacciatore]

Sorry,but I am still thinking you are way too weak with your set up.

[swampthing]

The bow is a Hill, cut "before" center.

[fedora]

Guys, I have killed maybe 10-12 hogs with a bow to include a 300lbs boar.  All with a bow and believe it or not a muzzy 125grain head.  I have used a 50 lbs recurve and a 65lb compound.  These hogs are all feral in Georgia, but I have never had a problem with penetration.  I have never had to track a hog more than 40 yards.  If you put the arrow in the right spot they will die quick and your arrow will go right through.  My big boar had a big plate with pine sap rubbed into the hair that made the plate just as hard as the video.  My broadhead went straight through broke his shoulder and angled back through the ribs.  He died in ten yards.  The head was mangled and two of the blades I never found.  It still killed him!

[kibok&ko]

my god it's a body armour hog !

[swampthing]

Body armor is right. Next time you got a big ol' hog on the ground, one with a shield, take out your fancy knife and try to stab through it! On the big tough ones you will probably have to turn the knife around, hold it like a psyco, and use quite the whip motion to get through it. On the softer ones you could do it with a sharp stick.
 The ones I've encountered, it seems that the plate was more "inside" the skin. Kind of like hitting a scapula, but on autopsy no scapula hits were encountered. Just thick, cartlegeous, fat, and skin. There ribs are a joke compared to there tough spots.

[TDHunter]

I got a pass through, with 58lb recurve, and used a 2 blade magnus. Love hogs, I must do it again!!