sneeky_sniper
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I have shot probably close to 75 hogs in my lifetime, ranging in size from piglets to 300lb. boars. Killed probably 50% of them with a .22LR or a .22WMR with a shot into the soft spot just below the ear. I have killed them with a .22-250 with 50gr VMax, I have killed them with a .17 Remington (25gr HP) Also have killed them with a .308,.243, and a 7.62x39 with that cheap steel core ammo.
If there is a bullet hole in their brain they don't tend to go far. Hogs have a soft spot just below their ear just like you and I do. It isn't magic, just shot placement. If you shoot them between the eyes head-on the bullet will tend to "run" up their slanted "forehead" and they will squeal and depart quickly, usually living to see another day.
My Dad found one hog that had been struck by lightning under a big Oak tree. After a little looking at the pile of bones and fresh burnt hide that the buzzards had left, he found a partially dissolved broadhead and about 6" of arrow. He also found two vertebrae that had a hole thru them on the vertical "fins" (don't know the term) that was partially healed up. It had to be a bullet hole because the broadhead would have never gone through the hole. So, we are pretty sure that in this hog's life it had been shot with a bullet, shot with an arrow, and lived for ???? and then God said... Boom!!! Let's have fried piggy!
Irrelevant story I had to share. Sorry it was long.
If there is a bullet hole in their brain they don't tend to go far. Hogs have a soft spot just below their ear just like you and I do. It isn't magic, just shot placement. If you shoot them between the eyes head-on the bullet will tend to "run" up their slanted "forehead" and they will squeal and depart quickly, usually living to see another day.
My Dad found one hog that had been struck by lightning under a big Oak tree. After a little looking at the pile of bones and fresh burnt hide that the buzzards had left, he found a partially dissolved broadhead and about 6" of arrow. He also found two vertebrae that had a hole thru them on the vertical "fins" (don't know the term) that was partially healed up. It had to be a bullet hole because the broadhead would have never gone through the hole. So, we are pretty sure that in this hog's life it had been shot with a bullet, shot with an arrow, and lived for ???? and then God said... Boom!!! Let's have fried piggy!
Irrelevant story I had to share. Sorry it was long.