Shot placement question

[andreww5001]

A while ago, I shot this hog with my recurve. I have wondered ever since, what happened on this shot. I never found this hog and I lost blood short after the track began. I was using a 2 blade stinger that came unscrewed and spit out my arrow about 40 yards into the track. Take a look at this video and see what you think about the shot placement. What vitals (if any) did I hit?

https://youtu.be/Ew7mhnzyCsY

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[bigmike]

From what I am make out it should have been a pretty fair shot to the lungs a little bit high little bit forward and he was angling towards you may be just a little you did not get very much penetration but you should have gotten both of them I would think this is just my two cents I’m sure you will get a variety of opinions

[jds247]

That should be a dead hog . Bad thing about 2 blade if you don't get a low exit you don't get much blood.

[Walker]

Looks like you hit the shoulder to me. I'm looking at it on my phone so a bigger picture might look different.

[Drycreek3189]

Yep, looks like shoulder to me. Hogs are hard to kill sometimes. My buddy put a crossbow bolt into one’s lungs a couple years ago and I shot him 600 yards away with a 6.8 SPC. He was still running albeit a little awkwardly.

[Phillip Fields]

Looks like shoulder to me.

[SJP51]

Stingers are tough heads. But that shot looks like it hit the shoulder. May cracked the bone, but hogs are tough to bring down.

[CEpperson]

Very likely a dead hog. Their vitals are forward so you have to stay close to the shoulder if your shooting them broadside. After a lot of what you dealt with on this hog, I started waiting for quartering away shots and my recovery rate went way up.


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[andreww5001]

Very likely a dead hog. Their vitals are forward so you have to stay close to the shoulder if your shooting them broadside. After a lot of what you dealt with on this hog, I started waiting for quartering away shots and my recovery rate went way up.


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This was literally the first animal I had ever shot at with traditional equipment. I have since made the same adjustment with the exception that if the animal is broadside, the near side leg absolutely must be forward. If I had to do this over again, I would have made that a priority. I think I would have found a dead hog in 40 yards if that leg was forward because from what I know about hog anatomy, that arrow was tracking at the heart.


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[GarGuy]

How much penetration did the arrow show?

[andreww5001]

How much penetration did the arrow show?

There was blood up and down the arrow. I don’t know that it got that much penetration though because it’s been my experience that a lot of that could have been spray out of the wound. I mean it’s very hard to tell though because this is a picture of the fletchings which clearly have some blood splatter on them.


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[Walker]

I finally managed to stop the clip as the hog wheeled around. The nock is a long ways from the hog.

[andreww5001]

I finally managed to stop the clip as the hog wheeled around. The nock is a long ways from the hog.

I agree. Clearly it was limited penetration. The question is, “did it get the necessary 6-8 inches to do the job”?


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[DRT]

I'd bet you see that fella again. At least on camera if it with a couple weeks in person.
Looked like a center shoulder punch where the blade meets the leg bone.
He'll have a limp for a while but he'll live.

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[kmon]

Watched it in slow-motion and agree with DRT you just might get another crack at him. If you do get your broadhead back