Hog kill zone - disected

[Looper]

What's on your mind, Mike?

[MikeW]

Originally posted by looper:
What's on your mind, Mike?

I don't know what happened, I made a post and had a typo in it, went to edit it and for some reason it posted like 3-4 times and all messed up and I don't see a delete button to just delete the messed up ones.  Sorry

[kibok&ko]

very interesting video thank you i put  the link to the french bowhunter trad website,  we don't have hog but it should be the same on our Sanglier ( russian boar i guess in english ? )

[Bivyhunter]

Only the boars have shields, protects them from rivals tusks when they are battling it out for a hot sow.

[Looper]

I've shot a few sows with shields. Not anything like that one Terry showed, but they definitely had a layer of cartilage over their shoulders and ribs. In fact, the last sow I shot was about 170 pounds and she had a shield a little over 1/2" thick. I think they must get that from constantly rubbing on trees. She was an old girl, too.

[Looper]

Originally posted by kibok&ko:
very interesting video thank you i put  the link to the french bowhunter trad website,  we don't have hog but it should be the same on our Sanglier ( russian boar i guess in english ? )

How big do those hogs get?

[kibok&ko]

for those i know well from here , living in the alps where you don't have any more  fields ...  only sheep and wolf triyng to eat the sheep ...  we have also many snow and the hunting regulation don't allow us to feed them , there are not many

The biggest i saw is the one on pics below, a trophee of a lifetime for us even for the drive hunt gun huenters with dogs, very close to 100 kilos and  he was wounded by a bowhunter friend and try to kill our blood dog,  we have no gun and i was lucky anough to be on the rock and to had the possibility to shoot two El GRANDE to finih it

 


in other place where you have corn fields or even rice fields like in the mediterranean french border they can weight over 160 kilos


In Bulgaria by  where they feed them all year long for "foreign"  hunting purpose they can be over 200 kilos

[Looper]

Very nice trophy! I bet that was an exciting hunt.

[Terry Green]

Yeah...sorry about that....forgot to answer the question about sows having shields.

The sow I killed at Rays that weighed 300 did have a shield I think Ray has pics of that too....again, I was too busy skinnin.