nice job guys, I didnt mean to sound offensive, Ive never seen a hog shot at a bay like that, we have always tied or stuck them or gave them a trim and let em go
It would have been nice to "trim" this one and find him a couple years later when his tusks grew back!
No offense take, when I post a video, I expect questions. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million and an equal number of questions like yours.
I don't like shooting over caught dogs like that either. Always a bad idea. I have seen .22 bullets amd buckshot pellets bounce of hog bones and kill dogs. And that is assuming there is not a dog under the hog. I might have stuck it if I was the lead man, but I was "camera man" that time. The .22 mag revolver bullet just paralyzed or stunned the hog, as you can see we finished it with a knife. Off camera, I drilled the shooter, to make sure he accounted for all the dogs and their positions before he shot. He placed the end of the barrel at the base of the neck at the shoulders at an angle away from the catching terriers before pulling the trigger. He was actually on top of a large log so he could reach over into the briar patch to the hog's spine.
It is also bad form for the little jagdterriers to catch like that. I have since weeded out the head hunters and kept the ones that bay best and if they catch, not on the head.
