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billy:
Hey everyone,

  I just showed my brother a stone point I made for my upcoming pig hunt.  It's narrow, only  5/8" wide and about 1 1/2" long.  My brother looked at it and said "Dude, make your hunting points wider.  You want a good hole so you get a good blood trail."  But I've also read that narrower points have a higher mechanical advantage when it comes to penetrating. I know pigs have a cartilidge plate that protects their vitals and I'm afraid that a wide stone point will affect penetration. I'm shooting rivercane arrows weighing between 520 and 650 grains.  Anyone have any experience or input on this?

Hillbilly:
I've always read that narrow points get better penetration, but the law here requires hunting points to be at least 7/8" wide. Most of the old arrow points I find around here are narrower than that, many of them are just tiny little triangles less than a half inch long and wide. The people that made those depended on them for their groceries, so I assume that they worked.

mullet:
   I make my hunting points an inch wide and about 2 3/4" long.The last hog I shot I hit in front of the left hip and traveled to the right shoulder. Nothing was sticking out but about 6" of arrow with fletching.The pig was facing away from me.The point was made from Burn's obsidean.Pictures of my arrows are on the old web site.

billy:
Mullet,

I searched the old site and couldn't find your pics or your post.  If you could repost them on this new site that would be great.  If not, then you should go kill another one so you can post the pics!! 

What kind of damage did the point suffer?  What did you use for arrows?  How much did your bow pull?  How far did the pig go before it fell over?

mullet:
  Billy the point is the one on the far right.I didn't recover the pig or arrows.The first shot was a gut shot I'm sorry to say.Chris Cade and I blood trailed and chased this pig for about 3 hrs in circles in 6 to 8 foot high palmettos.I was shooting a 55#.The second shot was from less than 10Yds,You should have heard the impact.With the point that big it still only weighed a 110 grns.

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