Done.
I'm no pig expert, having only taken three so far, but here is the story.
We had some feral hogs around my hunting areas. A person that raised them had them get out. My buddy had them show up at his feeder, and he used his .44 mag to shoot one. Close range at his feeder, and he saw the round hit right behind the front leg. The 100 pounder fell over, then got up and ran off. He never found it, and there isn't a tree within a mile, just wheat field and some draws.
Fast forward to a bow hunt I went on in SE Ok a couple of years ago. It was a group hunt with participants from another forum. One was an editor of Hog Hunt magazine or one of those.
He shot a pig with a .44 mag as well, and as it ran off, shot it again. The second shot killed it. The first shot hit the plate, and there was a perfectly mushroomed bullet just under the hide that never penetrated.
The vitals on a pig are under and forward of the front leg. Shooting one like a deer behind the front legs won't result in a clean kill. They will die later.
I've always hunted with a cut on impact broadhead, never a chisel point. Not that this has anything to do with pigs, but that's always been my preference.
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