hogs... Danderous Game???

[team fudd]

I was charged this year by the only hog i ever shot.  and that was a muzzy moment i will not forget!

[Bob4st]

...great lessons for sure... Nothing as dramatic but I was charged by a woodchuck and had another play dead and snap at me when I poked at him with stick...grabbed that stick and chewed it badly...glad it wasn't my finger...

[southernwoody]

Got charged twice last week. Guess we just have some mean ole boars down here hahaha

[HighTecRedNeck]

Most will run away as fast as their fat legs will go.

That being said I have had one or two take a disliking to my scent and come looking for me. Maybe they thought I was after their " Ladies "...lol

The only time I got a little scared was walking in from my stand in the dark and had one VERY close grunting and stomping but I could not see the rascal

[Marshallrobinson]

Originally posted by Guru:
Considered "Dangerous Game"...not hardly, not me.

Any animal we hunt can be "dangerous" at times.

But that title should be saved for the "Big 5", Grizz/Brown/Polar bears, and the like....Those are DANGEROUS critters!!

agreed

I love hog hunting and didnt see much about it until I opened dangerous game. who would have thought it ?!

[Alex A]

I can tell you first hand how dangerous hogs are.
I remember about 18 years ago shooting a wild pig (in the North West of Western Australia) at close range (within 15 meters) in the chest with a shotgun, using a 12 gauge solid slug.
I figured a 1oz solid slug at close range would be ample to drop a feral pig... I was definitely wrong on this occasion!
I hit it, but instead of dropping, it turned and came at me.
Luckily a friend of mine had his .30-06 loaded and ready, and managed to shoot it in the head before it got to me.
Stretched out it was about 7'.
Unfortunately I had no way to weigh it, so I can't tell you how heavy it was. But it was bloody heavy... Decent set of tusks on it too!
If it got to me before my friend shot it, I doubt I'd be here to tell the tale... I'm pretty sure I had to change my underwear after that encounter too!   :eek:    

[Terry Green]

I've been charged 3 times....the 1st one I side stepped....the 2nd two I paralized with shots just past the jaw into the spine....one was a buiser.  My friend Curt Cabrera put another arrow into him as he was convulsing.....

I'll see if I can find a pic.

[Terry Green]

1st charger....

   

[Terry Green]

2nd Charger.....

   

[Bowlim]

For dangerous game with a bow, the issue is are you going to do it with the bow.  If you are shooting dangerous game, but you are cut out of the solution if the animal gets uppity, then it may be dangerous game for someone, you might even get hurt, but you aren't expected to be in on the solution.  Hogs seems decent in the sense that whether backed or not, you could still be the solution in a charge, or whatever.

[Sam McMichael]

I have only had one frightening encounter with a pig. As a youngster, while walking to my deer stand, I got between a sow and her pigs. One of the little ones squealed, and Mama instantly charged. I don't if the attack was serious or not, because I climbed my scrawny butt up a tree.

Terry, I had a friend once who was attacked by a deer. He killed it and it tested out to be diseased with something or other. This guy is a very reliable fellow and has probably hunted in more areas of the world than most of us will see so I really don't think he was just telling a story. Nonetheless, though, does anybody know of a deer disease that might bring on this behavior?

[Terry Green]

I hear ya Sam, I just know folks that have been charged by hogs, me included, but no one by a deer, and I know  lot more deer hunters than hog hunters and don't recall stories here on Tradgang other than this thread.

[wingnut]

I've spent a lot  of time hunting black bear with a bow and also hunting feral hogs.  Hogs are a lot more aggressive and more likely to come with evil intent.  I've had a few charge and Rusty has had more then a few.  "Big Momma" down in the boggys had Rusty up a tree for over an hour one time.  She was well over 300#.

Mike

[two4hooking]

[Terry Green]

Sorry..

Make that 4 times

[pdk25]

The vast majority of times, these attacks are from wounded hogs that are being chased/tracked, or hunted with what I call 'noisy' methods' like running them with dogs or gun hunting.  I have little common sense, but have been on my hands and knees in the dark 5 yards from two large boar fighting over a hot sow.  I didn't intend to be in the middle of that, but there I was. Made the hair in my neck stand up, but I truly have never been worried about being charged. Even when they are close, clacking there tusks at you and growling to beat the band.  Just looking for my shot.

[Terry Green]

Seems I remember Berry Wensel getting charged in Texas... fell back into a prickly pear and broke his arm

[pdk25]

Pretty sure that was during a Pig Gig at Spikebox or Lambshead I know he got some grief about getting prickly pear pulled out of his butt, but don't remember the broken arm part.  Maybe because that is the less entertaining part, lol.  Seriously though, I think that there have been very few people seriously injured by a hog while hunting with traditional archery equipment only.  Everyone will have to decide for themself exactly how much risk of harm there is.

[pdk25]

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=101626;p=3

[Brock]

Yep Barry got charged and broke his arm.  We have had a couple people charged on spot and stalk for wild hogs in Georgia on PBS hunts...they are not cornered, it wasnt a sow with piglets, but they charged.  Hunt put his bow between him and pig and side stepped...