yes that setup should hit them like a piano falling on their head.
I have shot 6 hogs with bows: 2 w/ compounds over feeders, 1 w/ recurve from treestand, 3 w/ recurve from stalk. It has been my personal experience that they do not jump the string. The 4 shot w/ the recurve were all shot using approx 520 grain arrow from a 40# bow, thats like 13 or 14 GPP and very slow in my opinion. Dunno the FPS.
For some reason, they do not seem to jump the string. Maybe they are too big? I have taken and will continue to take shots on hogs when the hogs are completely tensed up, aware that something was awry, probably just about to bolt and I'm at anchor. In my experience (with hogs not deer) the arrow will get to its mark before they can move upon hearing the string, even if they are ready to bolt. Just my experience.
Hogs always bewilder me with the juxtaposition of the varying difficulties in hunting them. Sometimes its hard, sometimes its hard but seems easy. Here is what I mean. I have been busted by them so many times while in tree stands. Especially the big boys and big sows. They come in on a trail, divert off the trail to good wind position, throw that nose up and are gone even before I can lift bow outta my lap. Times like that hog hunting can seem very hard.
Versus....the last 3 hogs I shot on stalk. One at 10 or so feet in his bed, awake, but unwilling to move thinking he was camo. Once that shot went off and he got to his feet and slowly started walking away, the surrounding grass and small pine exploded like a covey of quail. Hogs leapt from their beds and scrambled 10-15 yards and stopped in the tall grass. I have seen this numerous times. They get in the tall grass (3ft hi) stop and think they are camo. Not a single hog from that group of 10+ tried to make it the 75-100 yards outta that field into the thick timber surrounding us.
We were surrounded by hogs in a small field of grass. I only had one more arrow so I loosed it at a hog that was doubled up on another one in the grass, about 19 yards away. It was good hit. Those 2 did run for cover. Even after all that commotion all the other hogs sat tight. I had no more arrows! I walked back to the big loblolly in the center of the field where it all started and there were 3 hogs, 1 of which was close to prolly 250#, the others at 140+# and they were still bedded thinking they were camo! They had not moved the entire time. I could see other hogs out in the field too. I'll never go out on stalk w/ only 2 arrows again.
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