Went out today and had hogs all over us. My buddy missed one at 25 yards with his super bow to start off the excitement. We spotted several feeding along a canal and moved in. He waited until I got about 75 yards down the creek to head them off, then he moved directly towards at least three feeding hogs. When he shot hogs exploded everywhere, with 7-8 headed my way. The cover was all right along the water, so that's where I set up. The hogs pretty much ran me over. It was tough picking out which one to shoot! I finally shot a brown one at about 12 yards. He was very slightly quartering towards me. The shot looked a little high but good. He whirled at the shot and ran towards my buddy, with most of my shaft hanging out. He entered some thick cover along the canal, and we could hear him hit the water and swim across. We marked the blood trails and headed back to the boat to give them an hour. He said his was hit in the ham region, but quartering away hard. Good blood on his, and not quite so good on mine. He is shooting four bladed slick tricks, and I am shooting 1 1/2" wide Magnus two blades. The bow was my Ghost that I draw about 46# at 27 inches, pushing a 613 grain CE heritage shaft. After the hour break we found his hog still alive, but unable to rise at the end of a 40 yard blood trail. We crossed the creek and could find no sign of where mine came out of the water. I knew he had to have died in the canal, but didn't know how to find him. I didn't want to go swimming, too many gators! We motored up the canal really slow looking hard and found him under an overhanging limb. Brad spotted his rump just under the surface. The autopsy showed that Brad's hog was penetrated full length. Entry at the front of the ham and the broadhead stopped just under the skin after passing through the front of the off side shoulder. I don't know how he lived for over an hour! Tough critters. My shot went right through the center of the shoulder blade, took out the top of both lungs and stopped with just the tip through the skin about half way back on the body. He must have whirled at the shot because he was almost broadside when I shot. I figure I got about 14" of penetration total. The photo shows where the arrow was hung up trying to back it out of the shoulder blade. It took some time to work that sucker back out of the shoulder blade. Brad's boar was about 50#, and we figure mine was 80# or so. Here are a few photos. The tree is used for spotting hogs a long way off across the marsh flats.
cool pix, but to be consistent, we don't allow pix of compounds...never have bud
Topic: Swamp marsh hoggin! (Read 303 times)
