Texas Hog Hunting Mistakes: When Using a Bow, Don't Force the Shot

One of the biggest problems when hunting hogs with a bow is forcing the shot. You don’t shoot an arrow through brush. It’s not like a big-caliber rifle where you might be able to sneak it through and hit your animal or the target. Forcing the shot is just a huge mistake.

Range finders play a huge role. When you practice, my advice would be to know your distances, your ranges. Step it off. Don’t go to just 20 and 30 and 40 yards because those animals and your position may not always be 20, 30, or 40 yards. It might be 23 yards. So you need to know how your bow shoots at those distances as well. And also practice without a range finder.

I take knowing my ranges for granted because I play a lot of golf. By playing golf you’re always guessing how far you are from the green and from the flag, so that over years and years of playing golf and practicing, it’s helped me look not just at the target, but other landmarks … whether it’s a hill, a tree or a rock. Whatever you’re looking at that’ll help you put it all in perspective and kinda get an idea of just how far everything’s at.

So just practice, practice, practice in that sense. And you’ll just be able to tell, to judge your distances a lot better when it comes to crunch time and you finally get that shot. It goes back to the old rule: you always play like you practice. So you need to put on that hunting jacket, squat down, kneel, sit, whatever. Any kind of situation might present itself, and you need to be ready for that.

You look at these baseball players a lot of times whenever they’ve gotta a charge a ball. And you see these shortstops and second basemen, even third basemen … any infielder … and they’re charging the ball and they bare hand the ball. And on a dead run they’ve gotta throw back behind them. How many times they don’t hit their mark because they just don’t practice it that much on what it feels like to get the ball thrown to first base on a dead run away from the bag.

Same thing with hunting. You’ve got to be able to know how your arrow flies, how your bow pulls back, sitting down, crouched down or even on your knees. All these different things make you a better hunter. And in the end, if you make a better shot on the animal, you make a more successful hunt, which leaves a more positive memory.

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From Allen Williams, Dos Plumas owner, http://www.DosPlumasHuntingRanch.com.

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