Fatal Feral Hogs

[Eutycus]

Exsanguination ?

 

[GunnyGene]

Lot of 'em in MS. Haven't seen any on my property in the 20 years we've been here, but they are in the neighborhood. Just a matter of time before they show up at my back door. In one neighboring county they killed over 600 last year. Nearly all by trapping. But it hardly made a dent in the population.

 

[hailcaesar]

I use to enjoy hog hunting more than deer hunting. I gave up hunting. Now that I am moving to the country I may start again. One thing I did notice hogs along some of the bottom lands about 2 miles from me. I am tempted to do a few things to attract some if close to my place but once I start my veg gardens I really don't want them in the area. They do a lot of damage. Got enough problems with the deer eating all my pears.

 

[Tumbledown]

Yet people hunted them with boar spears. They had "ears" on the shafts, allegedly to keep the swine from running up the shafts after they were already impaled.

No "allegedly" to that. Boar spears do have lugs protruding out just below the tip to stop a charging boar.

 

[Nyckname]

No "allegedly" to that. Boar spears do have lugs protruding out just below the tip to stop a charging boar.

How'd ya like to've been the guy who discovered those were a necessity?

 

[GunnyGene]

I use to enjoy hog hunting more than deer hunting. I gave up hunting. Now that I am moving to the country I may start again. One thing I did notice hogs along some of the bottom lands about 2 miles from me. I am tempted to do a few things to attract some if close to my place but once I start my veg gardens I really don't want them in the area. They do a lot of damage. Got enough problems with the deer eating all my pears.

One thing that folks need to pay attention to: There is a difference between hunting hogs and defending yourself against one (or more) that is attacking you. Around here the advice for defense is a large caliber handgun (.40/10mm or bigger), a 12 gauge with slugs/00buck, or a equivalent hi-powered rifle (.223 ain't gonna do it), and be prepared to do a mag dump. An aggressive 300lb hog is not a critter you want to mess around with. You won't get a chance to place a "perfect shot" when the thing is charging you at 20 or 30mph.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Being a Loyalist there probably isn't a lot of literature supporting your position either historical fact or in fiction. One of the earlier books I read on the Revolutionary war was
Oliver Wiswell
by
Kenneth roberts.

God Bless you Dutch that was very kind of you to think of me. I have a hard back copy of the novel.
What I found most interesting...the author, Kenneth Roberts who also wrote Northwest Passage and Rabble in Arms, ..., was able to write a book for an American audience that gets the reader to be on Wiswell's side in the story, even though he becomes a "Tory".

LD

 

[Loyalist Dave]

How'd ya like to've been the guy who discovered those were a necessity?

His name was probably Og or Nog, and it was probably a stone tipped spear.

LD

 

[FlinterNick]

Hey folks if there are feral hogs near you, be careful with the muzzle loaders going after the hogs, or going after something else while in hog country. A caretaker in Texas was killed going from her car in the front yard of a house, to the house. Now..., we will never know if she saw the hogs and thought they would ignore her, and tried to walk to the front door and found out otherwise..., and the medical examiner may not have looked to see if she went passed out from some other malady, and the hogs came by while she was "down" and ended up finishing her off,
https://abc13.com/woman-died-from-wild-hog-attack-chambers-co-sheriff-confirms/5716849/

LD

I saw this in the news recently, just terrible.

Ferrel Hogs are nasty. Personally I wouldn’t go for one with a smoothbore muzzle loader, I would need to be at least 100 yards from one of those.

 

[MSW]

way back in the long- ago (Cold War period) a lieutenant from another unit didn't follow the instructions given in the mandatory briefing: he slept on the ground (not in a vehicle), he tossed food wrappers on the ground, and he was carrying his personal weapon in a maneuver area - BIG No-No … he emptied the magazine of his 1911 into a feral hog and just made it: Porky stopped about two meters from his sleeping bag.

as regards his career progression after this incident, well, Yabbita Yabbita yabbita; that's all folks (he was sent home and never mentioned again)

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Personally I wouldn’t go for one with a smoothbore muzzle loader...,

AH..., well..., his Royal Britannic Majesty has just the answer for piggies, when using a smooth bore.... 540 grain ball, and an attachment if that doesn't do the trick!

LD

 

[GunnyGene]

AH..., well..., his Royal Britannic Majesty has just the answer for piggies, when using a smooth bore.... 540 grain ball, and an attachment if that doesn't do the trick!
View attachment 19212

LD

Good luck if there's more than one. Better hope there's a tree handy.

 

[SamTex1949]

Living here in piney woods of East Texas we have a tremendous amount of feral pigs . In my last occupation as a rural mail carrier, I often encountered the herds of sows and piglets on back roads. The issue of exploding pork populations (even in Montana I hear now) wont be curbed until a way to make the females sterile. Somehow finding way to feed them a way to do that might work(which in itself would create environmentalist issues) .

 

[sawyer04]

Good luck if there's more than one. Better hope there's a tree handy.

The pig sticker will get the next one.

 

[SamTex1949]

Heck ! Spears and bayonets ? I read an article a long time ago when lived in SATX about a guy who hunted javelinas with throwing knives ! Had two bandoleras with several knives in it ready to trhow

 

[GunnyGene]

The pig sticker will get the next one.

Uh huh. Try it out, and get back to us when they let you out of the emergency ward.

 

[Nyckname]

Great to have invasive species, ain't it?

 

[GunnyGene]

Great to have invasive species, ain't it?

Only when the State classifies them as "nuisance" critters with no limits on bag limit 24/7/365, and no restrictions on how you dispatch them.

 

[Treestalker]

How'd ya like to've been the guy who discovered those were a necessity?

That would be the guy next to the guy who exsanguinated for lack of cross bars, who possessed an abstract view of applied science in regard to defensive appendages on bladed weapons.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Good luck if there's more than one. Better hope there's a tree handy

I don't need a tree....
I just need to be faster than the guy next to me...,
And I never said I had to use the bayonet on "the pig"

LD