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Hog Attacks #6226157 03/17/16 02:13 AM
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I always read about hogs attacking people and goring their guts out.. But never seen anyone that has been attacked. Have any of you guys ever been attacked or charged by a hog?


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I attack them

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Originally Posted By: cabosandinh
never

I attack them


Same...


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No one that I know of.
Yes, it is possible but not very likely.
The hogs I see run as soon as they know you are around.

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Most hog "attacks" are when wounded, chased, trapped, or cornered hogs are approached by people, usually the same ones trying to harm the hog.

I have been charged after shooting a hog.


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Here's one.


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When I was little and lived in Georgia I was in the woods by myself headed to my favorite fishing spot and heard something running towards me it was a hog it chased me for a couple of minutes but got away without getting hurt

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Originally Posted by Palehorse
Here's one.



That was gory. I had to turn it off before I lost my stomach! grin


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Saw a hunting show last year where the host had been attacked by a hog the year before and almost died, according to the story he told. It wasn't his guts, it was a bunch of cuts to his legs.


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Originally Posted by Palehorse
Here's one.



That one would have come home with me...I'd have to explain to the wife how we got a new pet...


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Sow tried to get me after I put a zwickey in her bread basket. I made to a tree before she got to me...I've killed around a 100 hogs and that the only one

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Yes, but only once. I trapped 8 pigs, in my excitement to get to the trap I rode right up to it without checking to see if there were any pigs not in the trap (the previous weekend I trapped 7 and had two outside the trap, I noticed them 50 yrds away from the trap, shot one and the other took off). I drove up to the trap, got off only to have two hogs run straight at me from either side of the trap. It was 27 degrees and my pistol was under 3 layers of clothing...Pig on the left saw me and went the opposite way, pig on the right came straight at me. After scrambling to get my XD-40 out, I fired 3 shots before I hit the pig, not killing it but at least turning it away from me.....It got within 7 feet before I finally put a round in her. Word to the wise, when in a panic situation it pays to have extra rounds...I'm an experienced shooter but that incident proved I needed more practice in panic mode. Needless to say that was one of the scariest situations I've been in and never walk around without a pistol now.

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I've been charged once. We were Spring turkey hunting and all I had was a shotgun with #4 shot (mistake that won't happen again!) We ran across some pigs, and we decided to flank them and shoot them from about 30 yards. I shot the largest sow twice quickly, and she circled around (either saw us to charge us, or was making the circle and ended up just coming straight at us, not sure which). Either way, she was running right at me from about 20 yards out. I put the front bead right on her forehead and pulled the trigger. It hit her about 10 yards out, and she slid to a stop just in front of my feet. It was just like the Dancing with Wolves shot on the buffalo. It got the adrenaline pumping for sure!

I've also had hunting buddy get charged bow hunting and wounding a large boar. The boar charged him after the second shot, and treed him for about 30 minutes.


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I classify wild hogs just under whitetail deer in dangerous animals in the wild. A lot more people are gored by a buck, or kicked by a doe every year then attacked by a deer. Wolves are even lower on that list!!!! Black bears are at the top of it for mammals, and snakes are what I'm afraid of the most!!!

A good friend shot a good sized sow with his bow awhile ago. He waited about an hour, then went to look for her. He followed the blood trail into a thick stand of brush and while trying to look into it, the hog charge him. He was knocked onto his back and she got on top of him. He held her off with one hand, with a couple fingers in her mouth. He was able to get an arrow and stab her to death while she was on top of him. His fingers and thumb where chewed up pretty bad requiring stitches and a metal thing taped to his hand to stop him from moving them. The rest of his body was black and blue, he looked like he had been jumped by a gang and just beat to crap.

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As pappy say's: Hog hunting will put hairs on your chest... i shave every morning & by 5 O'clock i've got a shadow ... Not a bad idea ta hunt with a friend accident do happen.... Edit: if ya huntsolo your memories die with ya... flag

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I have encountered a number of hogs and have only had 2 that look like they might. But I was able to shoot them before they did


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I had one "charge" me while trying to get away from someone else in thick brush. I ended that encounter with a 12 ga. He was panicked, exciting but I doubt I was in much danger.

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Originally Posted By: ChadTRG42
I've been charged once. We were Spring turkey hunting and all I had was a shotgun with #4 shot (mistake that won't happen again!) We ran across some pigs, and we decided to flank them and shoot them from about 30 yards. I shot the largest sow twice quickly, and she circled around (either saw us to charge us, or was making the circle and ended up just coming straight at us, not sure which). Either way, she was running right at me from about 20 yards out. I put the front bead right on her forehead and pulled the trigger. It hit her about 10 yards out, and she slid to a stop just in front of my feet. It was just like the Dancing with Wolves shot on the buffalo. It got the adrenaline pumping for sure!

I've also had hunting buddy get charged bow hunting and wounding a large boar. The boar charged him after the second shot, and treed him for about 30 minutes.


Guy on our lease had the same thing happen dove hunting. Sitting on the edge of a pond on a stool had a hog come running over the edge of the pond straight at him. He put #8 birdshot straight between the eyes and dropped it. Wad didn't have time to expand so it was basically a slug shot to the face.

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back in the 60s, a close friend of my dad, rancher in NW Burnet county, rough country east side of lake Buchanan. He started losing calves to what he suspected was a large hog. He grabbed his old 30-30 and saddled up his horse to go find it. He was several miles away from the house when a very large boar charged out of the brush and ran underneath the horse. Tusk sliced the horse's belly open, horse trampled it's own guts trying to get away. the horse finally collapsed and the rancher scrambled to and up a tree with the hog in close pursuit. The 30-30 was still in the scabbard on the underside of the now dead horse. The hog started eating on the exposed guts and it quickly got dark. The rancher could hear the hog eating on his horse. He spent the night up in that tree and at day break, quietly got down and grabbed his gun and headed back to the house. He got several other ranchers together and took dogs to track the hog. They found it and killed it but not until it had killed several of the dogs. The rancher pulled the ivories and put on a leather strap around his neck as a reminder how dangerous hogs can be, especially once they have gotten a taste of blood.

in the 80s, we had a lease in northern Llano county and that rancher had range hogs, domestic but grazed like cattle. Dad always warned me about when I kill a deer, to listen for the hogs while I was gutting it. One day dad and I were together and one of us shot a doe. I started gutting it and dad told me to hurry up, he could hear the hogs coming. I got her gutted pretty quickly and he told me to toss her up in a cedar tree as high as I could and we moved 50 or so yards away. A group of 8-10 grown hogs came charging in and started fighting over the gut pile. It was a pretty scary sight and vicious. Once they finished the gut pile, they started sniffing out the drag trail to the cedar tree and I thought they were going to tear it down trying to get to the deer.

so yes, I have a lot of respect for what a hog can do although most seem to be very scared and will run away.


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My neighbor got hit by a big boar, ripped his leg open pretty good. He was Quail hunting (when we had a lot of Quail) and spooked it out of some brush. He got a pretty bad infection and had to do some skin graphs. He said he came close to loosing his leg due to the infection.


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back in the 60s, a close friend of my dad, rancher in NW Burnet county, rough country east side of lake Buchanan. He started losing calves to what he suspected was a large hog. He grabbed his old 30-30 and saddled up his shetland pony to go find it. He was several miles away from the house when a very large boar charged out of the brush and ran underneath the horse. Tusk sliced the horse's belly open, horse trampled it's own guts trying to get away. the horse finally collapsed and the rancher scrambled to and up a tree with the hog in close pursuit. The 30-30 was still in the scabbard on the underside of the now dead horse. The hog started eating on the exposed guts and it quickly got dark. The rancher could hear the hog eating on his horse. He spent the night up in that tree and at day break, quietly got down and grabbed his gun and headed back to the house. He got several other ranchers together and took dogs to track the hog. They found it and killed it but not until it had killed several of the dogs. The rancher pulled the ivories and put on a leather strap around his neck as a reminder how dangerous hogs can be, especially once they have gotten a taste of blood.

in the 80s, we had a lease in northern Llano county and that rancher had range hogs, domestic but grazed like cattle. Dad always warned me about when I kill a deer, to listen for the hogs while I was gutting it. One day dad and I were together and one of us shot a doe. I started gutting it and dad told me to hurry up, he could hear the hogs coming. I got her gutted pretty quickly and he told me to toss her up in a cedar tree as high as I could and we moved 50 or so yards away. A group of 8-10 grown hogs came charging in and started fighting over the gut pile. It was a pretty scary sight and vicious. Once they finished the gut pile, they started sniffing out the drag trail to the cedar tree and I thought they were going to tear it down trying to get to the deer.

so yes, I have a lot of respect for what a hog can do although most seem to be very scared and will run away.

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hogs on my place are a bunch of wussies ....

and they don't feed on gut piles like I've been told/heard.
These are more vegans, prefer corn and other vegetation

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Originally Posted by Palehorse
Here's one.



My concern in a circumstance like that would be that a mad, 300-pound, mamma sow might come charging out of the woods to figure out what I was doing with her baby! It is good that the piglet wasn't making any distress sounds...

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Busted a small buck early one morning in a dry creek wash right on the Eastland County line, dragged him up to the road turnaround just west of my ground box blind, and was waiting for my ride, dozing.

Heard a commotion coming thru the super thick woods across behind me...and out popped a single young adult sized porker, about 125 lbs or so, moving thru at a high trot about 60 yards to my east. He slowed to a walk & started sniffing the air, from his steady lope...and I hit him further back that I wanted when he heard my safety click off and had wheeled away from me, with a solid right shoulder joint impact instead of the clean behind the eye & under the ear aiming point, and rolled him hard, he got up and hauled it back into the deep woods behind me.

2nd shot came a few minutes later with him draging the right front leg, with almost the same exact setup on his game trail path, hit him hard right behind the shoulder and rolled him hard...and again he crawled off, only this time into a 30' high wall of brier & shin oak thicket across the road out of sight to mu south. Waited 10 minutes on my watch and crawled in after him down the game trail.

3rd shot came when I was 75-80 yards deep in the brier patch still on my hands and knees following his blood trail when he got up and faced me at about 30 yards and I hit him in the cowlick on his chest as he was getting ready for the charge, but I was hoping to end it right there. Madea good hit that turned him head over AH, and he crawled back under his tree where he'd been hiding. Sat back on my heels and waited for 5-6 minutes on my watch again, and started crawling forward when I didn't see any more movement.

4th & final shot came at about 25-30 feet on his stumbling charge still clicking his cutters, with the bullet placed just under his right eye. Game over.

Was using my all time favorite rifle, a USRAC M70 Fwt 257 Rbts with it's favorite ammo, that was well proven in it's 10 years of use on WTail & Pronghorns (& long time now discontinued) 100gr WW Silver(aluminum) Tip white box ammo. Nothing I ever reloaded ever came close to that WW 100gr ST bullets accuracy. Recovered the 1st, & 2nd bullet in full expansion and deep penetration, assummed the 3rd bullet went into the gut pile, and the 4th bullet went couple inches into an oak tree behind him leaving a 1/2" thru & thru.

Moved back to my 270's in Speer 150gr SP's after that as a my do all caliber & load and never again had an "adventure" like that. A "Too Close for Comfort" memory that has stayed with me ever since, since my 4th bullet was my LAST bullet in the pouch and the rifle's mag well.

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