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You sure that wasn't Ingwe?

(laughin')

Still have nightmares about that chit!

BASTIDS!


Ingwe

The one in this article gored nine farm animals, a dog and nearly got a hunter. Two of the animals had to be destroyed.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...mp;sjid=-qYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1291,4798412

As to what they CAN do if a hog takes a mind to do it. I don't have photos or news clips as to this only my word which I hope is good around here.

Years back four of us were dog hunting hogs and ran a bunch that bayed up in a swamp hole @ a quarter acre in size. We were trying to ease in on them when they busted. One big boar hog, I'd guess just under 300 pounds ran between the legs of the mule that a friend of mine was riding. Mule was about hock deep in mud as we all were.

When he went under Will's mule he gave a flirt with his cutters. Mule screamed and tried to jump but all his guts fell out on the ground. Gutted just as slick as if you had done it with a knife. That yellow and black spotted sob was gone before anybody could get off a shot.

I saw it and testify to it happening. Makes you kind of carefull walking up on bayed hogs.

BCR

I've seen them cut dogs before as well, but it happend because the dog's are annoying them, biting their ears, tail and any other apendage.

Also knew of a guy who worked with my brother who had a calf muscle torn off by a pig as he tried climbing a tree a little too late. That was nasty, but rare.

There are an aweful lot of pigs shot every year all over the world and surprisingly few stories of gore to make against these animals. They are a pest and great to shoot. That's all.

JW

read a article a while back about a ranch hand near cotulla tx that hunts hogs with one dog. he goes out at night after them with the dog no firearm just a knife. while he would sometimes kill the hog he usually would catch them and bring them in alive.

So what I take from the comments is that most likely nothing would have happened if I had gone ahead and walked out but airing onthe side of safety like I did wasn't a bad idea.

Some good news that has come from this my wife gave me the go ahead to pick up a new Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 mag. that I have had my eye on.

any excuse to buy a new gun is a good one!

i do not consider hogs to be either dangerous or aggressive, but still...

i work with an old boy who grew up around them like i did... he never thought much of them except to shoot them as vermin...
in Feb. 2008 he cornered one on horseback and got off to shoot the thing... he had it cornered and before he could even get his gun out that thing came past him and hooked the leg of his bibs with a tush... he got his gun out but dropped it... said that hog shook hell out of him... missed 2 weeks of work and got a bunch of stitches in his leg and one hand....

said that he liked to never got loose til that hog ripped the entire leg off his bibs....
when the hog left he said that he laid there and cried like a baby till he got up and stumbled out to the road... a neighbor going by took him to the hospital...

his dad had to go out and get his horse... never found his gun, a blackhawk .357...

i think that he had to do the rabies shots as well...

I don't doubt it at all stx. Case of a smart dog and half smart ranch hand. I have seen and I bet you have too hogs that no dog ever whelped could hold. They were just too damn big and tough. OTOH when I was younger and a hell of a lot more spry I have caught them or cut them with a couple of dogs helping. Never did it with a single dog though. Maybe our dogs weren't smart enough. If that ranch hands dog is smart enough not to tie into one he can't handle well and good. Depends on the dog and depends on the hog. Any five inch blade will take the heart of any hog going in over the breast bone. Straddle him and pull his head up. Shorter blade will do it behind the shoulder angle forward.

As to catching, a hog with legs over about 2inches around was too big for me to get a grip on. Unless you got hands like a gorilla it is mostly too big for any man, he'll kick loose.

BCR

Ruger a big old pistol is a powerful comfort in the woods on a dark night.

BCR

Get a hogs back leg up in the air and he's pretty helpless...

Seen plenty of boars who were dog killers- some had had their ears chewed off so the poor catch dog had nothing to grab [good reason for healer type dogs vs full breed or 1/2 pits]

One of the best pig dogs I've ever seen was a tiny rat terrier "Bullet" those big hogs would just stand and look at that squirrel sized dog and think "What the F" ......until the rest of the pack was on him

I"ve never had an aggressive one to speak of. Not much russian blood here though... all ferals mostly.

I've had to kick a couple that were a bit snotty and crunched ones skull once with my boot heel when we were bowhunting but nothing that that I'd deem anything like seek and hurt...

I did manage to get bit catching them once.... we could run down the shoats when we were younger, and lay em out... tie em up and go on.... One managed to bit through the rope and bite my thumbnail in half....at that point he lost his head to my 45..... No brains left to send in after the fact...
Had a rabies series myself... would have kept the titer up too except it was a huge hassle testing and then getting a booster when living in the country... tests had to go to KS or some such...

Another comment. I have hunted pigs in drought conditions whereby there was little protein, no carrion to speak of, no lambing paddocks and such and I would rate those pigs as more aggressive than the usual piggy that is encounted.

Broke down once 19 miles behind the homestead which was 44 miles from the front gate. It was a long walk back to the house and a mate (also a lawyer, he he) drew the short straw. We loaded him up with water for the long hike and he reported that he was surrounded by pigs several times during the night which sounded very aggressive with lots of noise and clicking tusks but none came too close.

I can understand how a person may be fearful of these things. If it promotes caution or additional awareness then I am ok with that.

Just thoght of another incident near a town called Condoblin in central NSW back in the 70's. A woman rolled her car on a corner and was pinned at the legs. The story I heard from the property owner, was that the pigs came at dark and devoured her. They found the legs still pinned under the car the next morning.

It was a lot more isolated back then. Last time I was there in the 90's someone had painted the town. Still looked like Tombstone though.

JW

JW something similar to your woman/car incident happend to an old farmer here when I was a kid. I didn't see it but heard the folks talking about it. I knew old man O'Keif.

He went out to slop his hogs, domestic, had a heart attack or stroke or something. Fell backwards over the fence so that his legs were in the hog pen and the rest of him was outside.

When he was found the next morning the hogs had eaten his legs off up to the knees.

"They said" he died of blood loss and not the stroke or what ever it was.

BCR

Hey RugerM77270, I wouldn't trust a hog. Rather be safe then sorry. Did you have those bullets I sent you loaded up? They would have calmed him down!

I've heard of stories from guys in Texas that trailed wounded pigs they shot with archery tackle. Could've been charges, could've been just wanting to get out of there and going through the guy was the easiest path.
The only unwounded ones that ever scared me were the ones caught in traps. They had a meaner than hell look about them and would charge you through the trap. I knew it would hold, but it'll still make you jump back a second when they hit they gate full force.
In those big permanent corral traps, the pigs could really get a running start on the fencing when they charge. I'd always shoot the charger first if we caught a small herd.