Reminder: Pigs can hurt you!

[pigtickler]

#4713

A doctor acquaintance of mine in a little town just south of here almost lost his life last week at the jaws of a 150 lb feral hog. This guy (60 years old) is a life long hunter, no babe in the woods. He shot the hog in a field (don’t know what caliber rifle) and followed it into the woods. The wounded hog charged him knocking him off his feet, then proceeded to take off most of one calf and severed the artery in his arm. The hog backed off and he was able to retrieve his rifle and finish the hog. Fortunately a buddy was with him and had gone back to bring the truck. He managed to pinch the artery enough to get him back alive to the hospital, about 15 miles in Waynesboro. Changing handle back to HOGTAMER now! BTW did anybody see the Discovery channel program “Pig Bomb?”

[aeronut]

#33423

Yeowch! That ain’t really what I’m wanting to read when I’m planning a Texas hog hunt this winter:shock:. I may want to build some Rambo broadheads for my arrows!!

I know first hand what a domestic hog can do to ya so a wild hog has to be bad.

I saw part of that show.

Dennis

[Mark Turton]

#33891

Hi Hogtamer

I hope your friend is making a good recovery although his injuries sound as though they will be with him for life. I like to hunt alone but this story does make me consider the consequences of an accident.

When your friend is feeling better it would be interesting to have his firsthand account of the event.

Like Dennis I also have a boar hunt planned for November, I have been considering taking a spear but that might just be a daft idea.

Mark.

[J-dog]

#35355

Godspeed for a fast recovery,

[Ralph]

#35659

Ouch! God speed with the recovery. Just another reason that I back me and my longbow up with my 1911 when I’m poking around for hogs. I’ve had those things look really dead and then I think that they be smart enough that they’re just baiting me. At 10 yds. and that red eye opens, I get the willies in a heartbeat. I’ve been scoffed at for carrying that pistol but I figure it’s my parts and pieces and I aim to protect them if I can. I read where a guy’s Lab saved him a chewing. That’s really good too. My little Pit might be of some good also. Hey, get well soon.

[Don Thomas]

#38519

Brown/grizzly bears are the only North American game animals that I think deserve routine firearm backup. But I heard enough hog stories–and saw enough scars–during the time I spent in Australia to know it can happen. The real moral of the story is that all large wild animals are potentially dangerous and deserve respect at all times. Don

[Ed Ashby]

#40728

About three decades ago I hunted with a fellow in Tennessee who got charged by a modest-size European-cross boar, after he’d arrowed it. The hog cornered him against a tree and a downed log, and ripped the medial aspect (between the legs) of his right leg from mid-calf to mid-thigh (along with inflicting a number of smaller wounds on both legs). The fellow was carrying a Ruger Blackhawk .357, and emptied all six rounds into the boar with the barrel literally touching the pig’s chest. Only after the last round did the hog stop its attack, stagger away several yards and go down. Can’t remember exactly how many stitches the injuries required at the hospital, but remember it was a couple of hundred.

After it was all over the fellow’s only comment was, “I’m damned glad that pig wasn’t any taller!”

Yep, hogs can be dangerous. Though I’ve done nearly all of my bowhunting without any backup gun on me, I don’t move all that quickly anymore. Today, given the option, I’ll pack a heavy caliber handgun when hunting hogs. I’m doing all I can to assure I’ll be around for a few more years of hunting! However, one word of caution: If you’re not truly proficient with a handgun, you’re probably better off (and safer) carrying a hatchet or a hammer!

Ed

[Don Thomas]

#42314

I couldn’t agree more. Carrying a long gun while bowhunting is a real pain, which is why I seldom do it. As for handguns, that’s simply a skill I have never bothered to acquire. I would be lucky to hit a barn with a pistol bullet if I were standing inside it when I shot, which is why I don’t carry one! Don

[joeb]

#42387

Hope your friend heals up ok. Pigs can definitely be a hairy proposition at times with a bow, I’ve got the scar as a reminder on my belly after a wrestle with one. Dogs are a good idea if tracking a wounded one, mine has saved me a couple of times. I always wear a knife strapped to my leg while chasing pigs, seems to be an easy place to get to when needed.

[Anonymous]

#54017

I was brought up on a farm,raised hogs and still keep a couple for slaughter. The worst situation to get into is to get inbetween a sow and her shoats. A farmer friend of mine related a story about a man in Concord,N.H. years ago who was cutting some young boar piglets. He put up a sheet of 3/4 inch plywood between the sow and the piglets. When he cut the first little boar, it squealed and the sow broke through the plywood and bit the farmer who was bent over with his butt facing the sow. She totally bit off his testicles and penis. That’s a true story. We had a neighbor who let his hogs run loose and we had to shoot them after they started to tear up our farm. Some had been loose for over a year in Middleton, N.H. and when we finally got them, they were growing tusks and were some ugly. Never trust any hog.

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