View Single Post Old December 25, 2012, 10:10 PM   #11 Double
Naught Spy Senior Member Join Date: January 8, 2001 Location:
Forestburg, Montague County, Texas Posts: 10,577 The best shots
of anchoring a hog will involve the CNS. The brain may be fairly
small, but it can be fairly easily damaged by hydrostatic shot.
That is why shots behind the ear that don't actually hit the
skull or the neck vertebrae will often drop a hog as will shots
through the sinuses or even shots that don't penetrate the skull
fully. The nice thing about rifle neck shots behind the ear, if
close enough to the spine, will involve the upper spine or lower
brain via hydrostatic shock, rupturing capillaries and otherwise
producing significant CNS disruption.  Note that the location of
the ear is at the rear of the skull. Too high behind the ear and
you simply clip soft tissue and the hog runs off. If you draw a
1" half circle from forward of the base of the ear, down around
and behind and hit within than half circle or slightly above,
the