The reason for multiple shots is that not is not uncommon to have 20+ hogs in a field at one time. In West Texas it is kind of an extermination job, the hogs have taken over and are destroying everything. I know it is not the best "sportsman" thing to do, but we just knock as many as we can down, then reload and finish off any that are still struggling. We killed over 60 in three weekends last year, and two years before that when I went to college in W. Texas I probably killed well over 200. The 200 was between two ranches, my ranch and a buddies ranch that I went to school with. My cousin lives in Wichita Falls and said hog numbers have increased a lot in the last few years around there. I know they are already in OK, but not like they are in other parts of the country, but they will be soon.
Didn't consider that. They haven't gotten that bad around here...yet.
I think a lot of people shoot them too high thinking their anatomy is similar to a deer.
BINGO! The heart in a hog is much lower in the body cavity and a little further foreword.
A lot of people take the shot as if they were shooting at a deer and that results in a lung shot. I think that is why so many people swear you need an RPG to take them down.
Generally the heart is right above the "elbow" joint.
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