Thread: A good calibre on pigs

Originally Posted by whanahuia

That overlay picture always annoys me when I see it, because its wrong. The heart and bottom of rib cage are much lower down than depicted and spine also is too high. You can shoot a pig in bottom inch of chest and hit the heart still.

most people I hunt with shoot them in the same place as deer and it ends up too high in the body/neck and only hitting the muscle above the spine causing non fatal injuries and it runs off
I try to remember that the spine is in the middle of the neck and always lower than I think it should be, but yeah the only thing the heart gets is the tip of my knife so i have no idea where it is when its alive