View Single Post
Old April 25, 2012, 10:46 PM   #30
MLeake
Senior Member
 
Join Date: November 15, 2007
Location: Outside KC, MO
Posts: 10,128
RE: Center mass and hogs

This link from about.com has a cross section diagram of a hog's vitals. http://hunting.about.com/od/deerbigg...toshoothog.htm

Center mass is actually aft of the liver.

Note how low the heart is, below and just behind the shoulder. Hogs also have a lot of hard cartilage around the shoulder.

Good odds a bullet will have to go through upper leg bone, and possibly rib bone and / or shoulder cartilage, depending on angle.

I've seen hogs run a good distance after a "center mass" hit from a 12ga slug.

Vitals on deer are arrayed somewhat differently. http://wildgameprocessing.tripod.com/deeranatomy.html
MLeake is offline  
 
Page generated in 0.03721 seconds with 8 queries