What Does it Take To Successfully Hunt Hogs with Airguns?

[pepi.gets.it.done]

Welcome to Ham! Also....nice collection of airguns you got there! The Black Wolf is a .30cal i imagine? What kind of power is it putting down?

Thanks! I have that .30 cal Blk Wolf shooting AEA 45grs and producing 95FPE

 

[Ezana4CE]

This is definitely worth watching. This is a centerfire hunter talking. Pay attention to the subsonic portion of the video.

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[CCook]

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[CCook]

I didn’t realize YouTube videos post this way I do apologize but here are two videos that I made that I think will help with hogs and hunting them with airguns. More coming on the baiting.

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[mrage]

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I grew up on a family farm in Pa. We had at various time pigs ,milk & beef animals. We did our own processing ( killing & butchering) , My Father gave the same advice on shot placement for dropping the animal(s) cleanly, Make an X from the ears across to the opposite eye , Don't take the shots with the head raised. This never failed .

 

[CCook]

I grew up on a family farm in Pa. We had at various time pigs ,milk & beef animals. We did our own processing ( killing & butchering) , My Father gave the same advice on shot placement for dropping the animal(s) cleanly, Make an X from the ears across to the opposite eye , Don't take the shots with the head raised. This never failed .

The head being raised IMO is the biggest down fall of guys shooting air guns. I get told all the time I hit it right between the eyes and it got up and ran off. A pellet hitting wet bone at any angle at all will NOT transfer its energy effectively. Solid lead projectiles will “glide” for the lack of a better word on bone. I have seen pellets lodged between the skin and bone with a mark along the bone where it traveled. The head needs to be as close to flat toward the shooter as you can get.

 

[Grunt64]

The head being raised IMO is the biggest down fall of guys shooting air guns. I get told all the time I hit it right between the eyes and it got up and ran off. A pellet hitting wet bone at any angle at all will NOT transfer its energy effectively. Solid lead projectiles will “glide” for the lack of a better word on bone. I have seen pellets lodged between the skin and bone with a mark along the bone where it traveled. The head needs to be as close to flat toward the shooter as you can get.

I have never had the chance to hunt hogs but if I did, I would target earhole, behind the ear, heart/lung triangle. soft‑tissue penetration shots with solid slugs.

 

[CCook]

I have never had the chance to hunt hogs but if I did, I would target earhole, behind the ear, heart/lung triangle. soft‑tissue penetration shots with solid slugs.

Ear HOLE is not a high percentage shot. Stay between the ear hole and the eye. There is nothing behind the ear that’s vital.

 

[Grunt64]

Ear HOLE is not a high percentage shot. Stay between the ear hole and the eye. There is nothing behind the ear that’s vital.

Stay between the ear hole and the eye.”

CCook, I get what you’re saying about head angle — a raised head definitely turns the forehead plate into a ramp.
The part I don’t follow is the idea that ‘there’s nothing vital behind the ear.’ The hog’s anatomy doesn’t match that.
The external auditory canal sits directly in front of the temporal bone, and immediately behind that is the forward portion of the brain case and the brain stem. That’s what I’m seeing in the skull anatomy diagrams.
The area between the ear and the eye is the frontal plate, which is well‑known for deflecting low‑energy projectiles because of its thickness and curvature.

Not arguing shot placement — just pointing out that the anatomy doesn’t line up with the idea that the region behind the ear is empty.”*