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Shot was about 15-18 yards, 63# hybrid longbow, 665grain arrow tipped with a tuffhead 225grain with 100grain steel insert.
Arrow hit in the soft part of the pocket, behind the right front leg, cut the rib and pierced the heart exiting the off foreleg about 8-9 inches.
He was dead on his feet, spun to his left after the hit, ran about 30 yards then staggered and walked about 80 yards like a drunkard, he was fighting the effects of the broadhead, spinning & bucking, falling down then get back up.
Finally flipping over backwards doing the High-o-Silver.
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Smithhammer, um……… it usually ends with a story like this, ” I shot this monster boar right in the lungs…… he ran forever…….. lost the blood trail….. must of been a poor shot.
I believe this is what Doctor Ashby was trying to convey to us….. with an enhanced set up, you can breach heavy bone consistently.
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This is the back side of the leg bone, it blew off a big chunk of bone.
NOT ALL BROADHEADS ARE EQUAL: Having the requisite qualities, such as strength or ability, for a task or situation:
Thank God we have lot’s to choose from, careful though, “some only catch hunters” I’m glad I had one that was up to the task.
The Tuffhead not only went through the humerus leg bone, it also cut the near rib in two, cut both lungs ( yes, that’s a double lung shot ) and cut the off side rib and exited with a 3 inch wide wound.
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Right at the tip of the arrow you can see where the tip of the broadhead hit the bone, I think it “POPPED” the leg-bone in the first quarter inch, then blew a big chunk off the back side of the leg-bone as it passed through.
The broadhead was still sharp with “ZERO” roll over on the edges, I could of washed it off and hunted with it, however I would not, I like a finely honed edge, but the edge durability was outstanding.
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Thanks Guy’s..
Well, I see my friend Troy has developed a speech impediment…..lol, that’s what happens when you try to reason, with the unreasonable….. it gets tiring some times. That’s why I’m putting Doc Ashby’s name in the hat for ” Saint Ashby” …….. oops way to much sin for Saint hood……lol
King — you’ve kilt elk and many hogzillas. I am of the uneducated (no experience with hogs) impression that huge hogs are even tougher than elk. You agree? That’s a Tuffhead…. I mean tough one………. I think we need to define TOUGH, are we talking the will to keep going and not give up….. are we talking the ability to inflict a wound……or are we talking the ability to take a boat-load of punishment and keep going……etc.
For a recent example, the last elk I killed, a young cow, the wood shaft broke off an inch behind the Toughhead 300 yet the heavy head had enough momentum to make it into if not through the heart. That animal barely make 25 yards … That is amazing, but if you think about it, your broadhead, the tuffhead 300 was as heavy as a lot of compound shooters whole arrow, ( my first thought was that the arrow my have went in then bounced back out, was there any blood on the shaft? if no blood on the shaft, then I think your right, the broadhead drove it’s self through……… That my friend is a mind blower!!!!!!!!!!
as opposed to yours, above, harder hit yet went so much farther. This falls into the category of taking punishment and keep on going, both Bull Elk & Big Boars can take a lot of punishment, A big Bull can weigh 2-3 times the weight of a big boar, so the amount of punishment, pound for pound, has to go to the big boar, however because of there greater size, the big bull can also take a boat-load of punishment.
Those who have done both enough to make an informed decision say that elk are tougher to kill fast than moose or bear. I’m thinking that giant hogs are tougher than elk, thus the toughest NA animal to kill, thus the ultimate test of an arrow setup short of water buffalo. Your thoughts?
My opinion wouldbe, big boars are tougher to inflict a killing wound in, easier to penetrate shooting from behind, on a non vital shot, you’ll loose both…. both have an incredible ability to take punishment and keep going. The biggest difference is, big boars grow tougher and tougher, not just size, but actually harder and harder structure, the more they fight the tougher they become, they can become one big scar. Big bulls on the other hand really just grow bigger, same hide thickness, little if any scar tissue.
Both shot into the lung area, in my opinion, Elk are easier to get enough penetration into the vitals, both can take a lot of punishment, Bull Elk because of his size and his muscle structure, Big Boars, because of his shield and dense muscle structure, and some times just his angry attitude.
Joe, I don’t know if you ever heard how I got the nickname “kingwouldbe” my good friend Ron Murry and I, and a bunch of other guys were hunting Santa Catalina Island circa 1980, there was about 30 bowhunters and a mountain of gear being stowed below deck.
The deck hands were just shoving all of the gear down below, they said to put your name on your stuff, my friend Ron had a marking pen, I asked him to put my name on my arrow box’s, yes arrow box’s, we would take 3 dozen arrows and some times you would run out, and pick up one you found, Bowhunting Paradise, ten kill days where not uncommon.
As we got to the dock on the island, the deck hands started calling out your name to pick up your gear so it did not just pile up, the guy said; “kingwouldbe”…… “kingwouldbe”…… he stared yelling “kingwouldbe” no one moved…… then my friend elbowed me, said; that’s you! everyone laughed as I walked up to get my ” kingwouldbe” arrows…. it stuck, the whole trip guys called me kingwouldbe for laughs.
Steve look at the pic with the sow…… it’s just a stub.
It’s good to be the king…….
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King – as I read back through this thread (and pick my jaw up off the floor after looking through the pics again) one thing jumps out at me – your arrow weight is just over the magic “650gr. bone-breaking” threshhold, but not by much. And yet the damage is obviously huge.
I’m assuming you’ve probably experimented with some arrow setups that are significantly heavier at some point, and I know that there are other variables to take into consideration as well, but I’m curious – did you find that the gains were negligible beyond 665 gr, and that there wasn’t much need for an arrow a lot heavier than that? That sure seems to be what the pics suggest…
Awesome “King” pic, btw.
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Smithhammer wrote: King – as I read back through this thread (and pick my jaw up off the floor after looking through the pics again) one thing jumps out at me – your arrow weight is just over the magic “650gr. bone-breaking” threshhold, but not by much. And yet the damage is obviously huge.
I’m assuming you’ve probably experimented with some arrow setups that are significantly heavier at some point, and I know that there are other variables to take into consideration as well, but I’m curious – did you find that the gains were negligible beyond 665 gr, and that there wasn’t much need for an arrow a lot heavier than that? That sure seems to be what the pics suggest…
Awesome “King” pic, btw.
Smith, I shot my last Asian buffalo with an UEFOC, 655 grain arrow having 31.4% FOC. It broke ribs in and out and stuck 26″ of arrow out the off-side. He was a really big bodied bull and I got the best penetration I’ve ever had when using that particular longbow on a BIG, trophy-class buffalo bull. That’s only a single shot so can’t be used as a ‘consistent outcome’ indicator but I used that arrow setup because, in it’s testing on freshly downed buffalo, it equaled the Minimum, Maximum, Average and Median penetration test-shot results of the very best arrow setup I had previously tested (from that longbow) … which was and EFOC (20%) arrow 312 grains heavier. (Please note that several other EFOC arrows, at higher FOC but lighter weight, also came very, very close to equaling that 967 grain, 20% FOC arrow, but did not FULLY equal it in the testing.)
Ed
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I’m just the test dummy 😯 Doc figures it out, tells everyone what he thinks, I go & try it, come back with info……
I try to remember what I’m suppose-ta do, and always forget what I’m suppose-ta do…..lol
I keep saying I need to wright a cheat sheet that I can pull out and see what I’m suppose-ta do….. never happens.
I’m just like you guys, I’m so jacked up over the kill, I get lost in the moment.
Thank God, I sometimes remember, I should maybe take a picture of this.
I did get little blackie on a head camera, the kill shot and everything, then I pulled out my video camera and got him fighting the arrow, just have to figure out how to edit it.
Dave Peterson, this is my all time mind blown experience. This Boar I shot a few years ago, went about 400 yards with this hole in his heart….. how…. you can’t…… it’s not possible… he even went about 150 up hill following his sows.
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Check this out, I love it……
” Phil,
Hi Kingwouldbe
I’ll try and explain why I was so impressed with your photographs, but first a little bit of skeletal anatomy and osseous pyhsiology if I may. The “knuckle” or Epiphysis you mention is the rounded head which fits into a socket (acetabulum) that forms a joint in the leg of your hog. The honeycomb you mention is the trabeculea of the cancellous bone, a softer type of bone structure which is inside the harder outer cortical hard bone. (Now the biomechanics part).
You have to remember that your hog was standing up and fully weight bearing when the arrow the arrow hit, so the bone was under compresson and all the leg joints were in a congruent loaded position, essentially making the structure stronger. Your arrow hit the leg just below the transition part of the bone shaft and the epiphysial condyle, possibly the stronest part of the bone. When your arrow hit the bone, it set up a classic 3 point bending moment within the bone. Both ends of the bone were fixed in their joints and the force of your arrow bent the bone like a bent bow. In 3 point bending fractures, the force generated at a single point on one side of the bone is greater than the reaction force on the opposite side of the stable ends of the bone, so the bone begins to bend. Just like a bow bending, the bending bone on the inside curve is under compression and the bone on the outside of the curve is in extension. When the extension force experienced on the outside curve of the bone exceeded it’s elastic modulus, a crack propogates from the internal application of the force, which in your case was your arrow. So the bone on the opposite side of the point of impact essentially explodes.
So why was I so impressed with your photographs …. well … you hit the bone in possibly the strongest area. The bone is quite short where you hit with thick cortical walls , so the bending moments generated will be small, but the force required to bend the bone will be very high. To apply a force to propogate a butterfly comminuted fracture of that quality is no mean feat.
Hope this helps …. and my background ? .. I’m head of research for a European medical research company.
Small mistake … when I said “a crack propogates from the internal application of the force,” I should have typed a crack propogates TO the internal application of the force,…. sorry guys my mistake.”
Phil, That was so outstanding, I had to read it a few times, I think I’ll read it again just for fun.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you,
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