I call you on the pigs treeing you thing. Urban legend that pigs attack people. Wound one, maybe. Get in the way when they want to go that way, maybe. Otherwise they run. I've killed hundreds. They run.
Don't laugh,,,I remembered driving at my ranch and saw a covey of quail spooked in high grass and they flew up and a short flight down a small truck path into some thicket, so I got off the truck with my .410 and walked down that small path, and passed a small opening in a thicket and all of a sudden a huge sow, about 350 lbs, stuck half of her body out of that hole in the thicket and snorted in anger and several piglets crawled around her. She must not have been no more than 15 feet away, and her tusks were pretty ferocious looking and she was pissed and I moved my .410 in her direction slowly just in case she charged ( of course if I shot her, it will just make her mad
) because I wanted to get the hell out of there, once I moved a tiny bit, she suddenly charged and I dropped the .410 and ran with my boots the opposite direction through a thicket and into a small half dried out pond and still heard her behind me, lost a boot in the mud and she gave me a good nudge on my butt and tore the back of my pocket open, luckily my wallet was there and I used to be a track star in my school days, but oh boy, when that hog head butted me, I never ran so fast in my life, lmao. Came to a fence and dived over 5 feet of fence and barely made it over which resulted in tearing my front pants with those barbed wire and some cuts on my legs and once I was on the other side, she turned back and left so fast that I never saw her leave but heard crashing through the thicket when she went back to her cave. Geez, I never had been shaking so bad in my life, lost my wallet by the pond and found it 15 years later with my money still in it when I went duck hunting. Saw that big sow a year later and she succumbed to a 7mm bullet. I have a CHL and I will carry my .38 Super if I go bowhunting, no matter what. Lesson learned.
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HF the discussion & difference of opinions, as old saying goes
every one has one as pappy once said:
mine stinks i like my beans...
Before the wave of NV &; Thermal would
huntsolo at night flash light off with
me pistol on me hip on a 1100 acre lease was on... Have been on hands & knees going threw thick brush & briar recovering wounded hog, reason got nickname
caveman at foundry... Even wounded deer been known ta attack if cornered... All the time spent hunting the thick stuff for hogs, finding beds were sows getting ready ta have pigglets, have been im few tight situations... Only twice had hogs come at me... First, sow bluff charged when it had several small ones... Trying ta get video of it, twas new ta cell phone with cam & video, the hog left after seeing was standing my ground... 2nd time, after firing a round at hog, Iit spun around & ran at me, had to side step... Hog was more desorented than charging...
Do agree with
passthru 99% of time hog gomna avoid hunter... Chit happens though...
As pappy said:
tis not the hogs that scare me, rather hunters that are scared & choot at the first soind or movement ... My tagoto place ta hog hunt is WMA &; in thick stuff... The hog attacks some times tis more myth & some use it for reason ta carry pistal during archery, could see it for finishing off a hog, not for protection... personaly have never felt need ta pac... When hunting with my AR only carry 3-5 rounds & close range making sure of my target... Just my
i have cheap posts... Stay Safe...