Quote: "That's fine for domesticated hogs in a pen, but that shot is a difficult shot that you will miss someday and have a horrifically wounded hog that will get away and suffer."
A shot to the head from 100 or 150 meters can easily leave you cursing for some days or months. And it’s easy to understand why: the head is the part of the boar that moves the most, even when feeding – any wild boar can and will move his head several times to look for menaces (human or four legged) in short periods of time even if he doesn’t move a leg. Thorax, on the other hand, is usually quite still, especially at feeding time, presenting you with a steady target.
If you shoot with pour light or at greater distances you can easily miss the boar’s head movement, losing 60, 80 or 100 kg of meat
After several hours in the forest waiting for the bacon, you will not want to return home with a piece of a pig’s jaw or some teeth
I think God put almost all the vitals in the thorax for a reason, lol
More pictures for you, Purgatory, all taken with my canon 350D in central Portugal, where I hunt:
Pics in HDR
It’s almost one in morning here. Better go see about the bed or my girlfriend will kick my ass, lololol