Black Streak
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« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2015, 08:53:58 am » |
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One of the best ways to trap big boars is by using another pig in the back of the trap. Best to use a sow in heat but good luck getting that lucky lol. Build a little holding area on the backside of your trap and put a sow in there. Better if your trap doesn't have any kind of floor, paneling included when I say flooring. Stake it down if it's light so he don't over turn it though. Put a wing up to help guide / persuade him to enter through the door. The sides of the holding pen need to be covered with plywood so the boar can't see the pig well and get at her well unless he goes through the trap entance. He should be able to see her well from standing outside the trap entrance. Best way to catch big weary boars in traps. Bow hunting them at feeders, I just use cheap solar powered landscape lights from Home Depot or walmart as kill lights. If your just shooting a normal set up used for deer, then better get the shot placement right on a boar of that size. Big above average boars are thick and dense then couple that with their shield, you hit it in the shoulder with that setup and you more than likely not gonna get enough penitration to be lethal. If you actually do, that shot won't leak much blood through the wound normally because all the tissue tends to seal the wound channel enough to keep the blood in the cavity of the boar and the blood clots really fast and that will help seal the wound channel from leaking blood externally. The ideal place to shoot a big big boar is low and tight tight behind the shoulder. This is the arm pit and the skin is thin there, not a lot of tissue to work through before punching through to the vitals, and the vitals are right there perfect for that shot. Only catch is, that little vulnerable spot is only about a 3 inch area that's best exposed when his leg is forward. I bought a bowtech insanity with 80# limbs and shoot 12 grain per inch arrow shafts in it specifically for big boars. I've learned to still respect that shoulder area and really concentrate on an ideal shot. Quartering hard to you and punching a good boar with my set up in the chest and driving it out right behind the off side shoulder will make for great easy to follow short blood trails. For good follow up shots on boars that are hit hard but are walking on you and won't go down, put an arrow in between their pelvis and rib cage just to one side of their spin and drive that arrow towards their heart. That arrow will usually bury up close to the fetching on a white tail set up and get liver and lung and send the boar to the ground in a few more yards. A pigs spine swoops down low as it starts at the back of the shoulders and goes toward it's neck. It's vitals are pretty low and forward. Protected well by the mass of the shoulders. Often times you will spin a young boar or sow by hitting it dead center in the shoulder because of how low the back bone drops through there. They don't go anywhere but down when hit like that but hit above it and it's bye bye piggy usually. Not a shot you want to shoot for on big big thick boars though.
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