Real "hunts" in Texas! This really should get PETA going!

[indy007]

Wild hogs occasionally tear up the golf courses around here. A guy I work with offered to take me hunting them. All they use are dogs & knives. I think they've lost their minds.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Thats what they use here too.  Ive been on one hunt, and yes, they have lost their minds.  I'm not in any kind of shape to be running through jungle with those dogs while they chase down a boar, and then wrestle the damn thing and stab it with a knife.  I have taken one with a bow here.  Damn good eating.  I'd never dream of going after a big wild boar on the mainland with a bow though.  Not unless I was in a tree where he couldnt get at me.

[Leslie]

Wild pigs are not dangerous.  They're a lot more concerned about staying to themselves and minding their own business than being defensive.  They are elusive and shy animals, and do not attack men.



Les

[kevykev56]

Originally posted by Leslie
Wild pigs are not dangerous.  They're a lot more concerned about staying to themselves and minding their own business than being defensive.  They are elusive and shy animals, and do not attack men.



Les

How about this one?

[Leslie]

That's a nice picture Rhino.  I would post mine but don't want peta to be upset with me.



Les

[kevykev56]

I didnt kill that one. I sure wish I had. I just did a search for big hogs and this is what I found. Just wanted to illustrate how big these things get.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Leslie
Wild pigs are not dangerous.  They're a lot more concerned about staying to themselves and minding their own business than being defensive.  They are elusive and shy animals, and do not attack men.



Les

  LOL Those Alamba pigs must be nibbling on the valium trees over there.
  You run up on a bunch of wild hogs around here, especialy if there`s pigs around, you better have your track shoes on or be able to climb trees reeeeaaaal fast because they will get in your back pocket in a heartbeat.

[United]

Most of the fun I have hunting is just being out in the woods and the hunt itself.  The meat is just like icing on the cake.  I couldn't imagine sitting on my butt in a nice warm house with a cup of coffee and hunt.  It just doesn't have the same feeling to it...

[StarOfAfrica2]

Yep.  Maybe the hogs around you have been nibbling on something with a sedative effect, because when I went Razorback hunting in Arkansas, you better make damn sure you know where a good climbin tree is at all times.  You get downwind of one of those things even, and you can hear it coming from over 100 yards away.  They do NOT like intruders, and have no fear of men whatsoever.  Here's a bit from a ranch that organizes hunts in Florida......

It's the personality in addition to the power and athleticism of the wild boar that beguiles so many hunters, now, and over millenia. Wild boar are secretive and wiley--and can be terrifying. When cornered they can become vicious...and they will hold a grudge.

At times the squalling of a caught hog will draw in other enraged hogs, but it's not because they want to rescue a buddy...they come purely from inflammation of their aggressive drive. Hogs that approach a downed comrade come not to mourn, but to dine. Hogs are not nice to each other, or to anyone else for that matter (apart form maternal groups, but after pigs are weaned, even they're not that nice). Boars have been known to circle around a human adversary to initiate their own attack from behind. A boar, pressed by a pursuing pack of dogs will still make the extra effort to hook the hunter as he's passing, and some boars get so ticked off and insulted that they'll continue to harrass and bite at a hunter that is already up a tree.

Someone who has injured a wild boar, might get a look--directed to only him--that could kill, and with the boar's first opportunity, be the target of its charge.

The hunter's wisdom when boar hunting is to, in a confrontation, "pick your tree" so you will not take that extra millisecond to decide which one to climb.

[Bluedog]

Originally posted by Leslie
Wild pigs are not dangerous.  They're a lot more concerned about staying to themselves and minding their own business than being defensive.  They are elusive and shy animals, and do not attack men.



Les

I could say the exact same thing about grizzly bears, does that make them not dangerous either?
Saying they do not attack men is just plain false, they will attack if startled.

[Reschke]

I don't know about the wild pigs down in extreme south Alabama as I haven't hunted them down there. However the ones up closer to the central part of the state are long lost relatives of the Eurasian boar that was imported into the South over a hundred years ago to help get the hogs bigger. A few escaped into the wild as all things like that do and they have a nice niche area from about Selma north to Centerville and over to Tuscaloosa and down towards Demopolis. There have been several in the 300+ pouind category taken from there. I also was invited on a knife hunt but politely told my friends they were stupid and asked where the nearest tree was so I could get up it in a hurry and if I could bring my Springfield 1911 .45!

[storch]

Originally posted by Bluedog
I could say the exact same thing about grizzly bears, does that make them not dangerous either?
Saying they do not attack men is just plain false, they will attack if startled.

They certainly will attack