What do you think of those tripods? I was looking at getting one in the near future. Is the seat quiet when you swivel around? I like the fact that you have a 360 degree view.

I like to go for the heart if possible just try not to shoot to low and miss everything I figure even if you miss your hitting some vitals. They don't run far. I've never shot one through the shoulder or facing me the hogs I've all shot i just wait 30 seconds and they tend to turn and give you a broadside or quarter away shot.

Last Saturday in the cold rain in Oklahoma killed a 85 lb sow from a 17' latter stand 18 yard shot she was quartered away pretty hard arrow entered at mid-level between the two farthest back ribs exit low just in front of the front right shoulder you can see in the pic.. When gutted found the heart was sliced wide open by the broadhead. And found the back half of the arrow inside.

After hit she ran a hard straight sprint 50 yards into some cedars. Surprisingly not much blood on the ground but her chest cavity was full of blood. I don't fully understand why I'm thinking she ran so hard didn't have time to start pumping blood out of the hole or just where the exit hole was and her runninig blood wasn't getting there. I also think the arrow exited and stuck into the ground half still in the pig. When it bolted it broke off the broadhead and broke the arrow in half I found the front half and broadhead separated and just laying on the ground. Broke the arrow into three pieces back half was inside the hog, front half and broken off broadhead like I said just laying there.

100gr Magnus Stinger pulling back 62 lbs on my bow.


Where she was found.

I've had bad luck with the rage 3 blade expandable broadheads on pigs. I shot a 200 pound boar from the narrow window I had at 20 yards. I hit him lower in the shoulder catching his lower plate and he ran 20 yards to the top of the hill and stopped to look down at me with my carbon express arrow sticking out of his shoulder. I thought at the time he would be dead in probably 50-70 yards. He left a solid blood trail that my dad and I followed for 400 yards until we reached our fence line. We were very enraged on how badly the rage broadheads worked. The funny thing was that my dad was throwing out corn about 3 months later on the opposite side of the property and found a pig skull with my carbon express arrow lying next to it! I would not recommend the rage expandable broadheads for pigs and since then I have switched to the fixed blade G-5's. Just thought I'd share

I think the tripods are great when you don't have a good tree for a ladder stand or hang on. Especially I like to push them into a big cedar tree they work great there and give you a background.

The quartering shot is good but like the other day, I shot when it quartered and it moved a little just as I shot, the shot only got one lung and exited through the front of the chest resulting in a long blood trail that ended in the rain. Fixed head, punch through the shoulder broad side. Even if you don't get a pass through the arrow is in there slicing away as the animal runs.

Thanks for all the input. After reading this information I have decided to stick with my slick tricks for the hogs. I am curious about the "armor plate". I have cleaned multiple hogs, mostly in the 50 to 150 pound range, and can only think that the "plate" is the thick layer of grisle over the front shoulder on mainly the bigger boar hogs. Do smaller sows not develope this plate and how big does a hog have to get before it becomes substantially thick? Maybe I'm mistaken. That's why I ask.

Sows don't have it. And it's actually just behind the shoulder. So punching through the scapula can be easier than the cartilage plate.