Pigs in the bayou

[drewsbow]

Congrats Mike :0)

[Mike Byrge@home]

Thanks fellas..

I'd like to make the Chester shoot Bill but May is a tough month...right in the middle of my son's baseball season and I'm the coach.

I used a Zwicky Delta and Bass Pro carbons.  The two shots close to the shoulder in the picture are entrance wounds.  The "gut" shot that you can barely see is an exit wound..not much blood there.  

I had exit holes with all the shots.

[Frontloader]

Congrats on the pig.  But it sounds like a lot of the story was left out in the initial post.

Are there any additional details available?  Why the tree?   Why so many arrows?  etc. etc.

[Mike Byrge]

Frontloader,
I saw him bed down in a briar-patch, slipped up to about 10-12 yards and shot him bedded.  After the shot he ran to my left angling away...when he hit an opening about 20 yards he way he stopped and looked straight at me then immediately charged...when it looked like it was "for real" and not just a bluff I chickened-out and went up a tree.

He didn't stay long and I saw him go into another thicket/briar-patch 50-60 yards away.  I immediately followed and found him, shot him too far back, he didn't run...then shot him a third time low and tight to the shoulder.  

The whole thing took just a few minutes from start to finish.

I initially thought the first arrow was a bad shot because it looked like it was quartering-to slightly, too-high and poor-penetration.  After dragging him out though I found that the first arrow did go in high but the broadhead punched out of the armpit on the offside.  

FYI: I was shooting a Bob Lee TD Longbow 56@29 and 490gr arrows.

[Mike Byrge]

Something else to add...it was probably "stupid" on my part but worth mentioning.

I had three broadhead-arrows and one fieldpoint with me.  After I had shot my three broadhead arrows the pig was still standing.  

I thought that it would be best to get as many arrows in him as I could and that a field point through the lungs would do additional damage.  At this point I thought that only one of the arrows in him was a killing shot.

I shot him with a field-point in what looked to be a good place and the arrow literally bounced off.  Fortunately he was in bad shape at this point and it didn't matter.