Wild Boars

[Rain]

Even domestic swine are mean, I can only imagine the fierceness of a wild boar. I think that hunting one could be very exciting for some. Hunting something with razor sharp tusks can be pretty enticing.

[Roy]

I think I smell a future installment of "When Animals Attack". Swine are very aggressive by nature, couple that with razor sharp tusks and people who don't know what they're doing and that's good quality television.

[ppine]

Tree climbing is a good idea, but takes some practice and a good tree. Wild pigs can appear suddenly, a firearm is probably best. Boars of course only refer to the males, sows are a problem too, especially wet sows with babies.

[Pathfinder1]

Hi...


If you've ever watched the old movie Gunga Din...it portrayed an instance where some of the younger officers wanted to go boar hunting on horseback, and used lances as their weapons.

The old officer in charge told them never to dismount during the hunt. Of course, somebody did, and even in the movies, someone got badly hurt...!!

Even the pecceries (wild pigs) of our southwest and Mexico can do much harm to a person.

I once had the good...and not so good...fortune to hunt wild boar in the Mountains of Turkey.

Another group of hunters was also in the area. Some of the other group were wearing clothing similar in color to a wild boar. One of them even wore an Alpine hat, that had a boar's tail in it. He ended up getting shot in the face, having been "mistaken" for a boar.

We had to carry him for miles through the mountains until we met with our Kamakazi bus driver who brought us over the winding, cliff-side roads to our starting point that morning.

I never did find out what happened to the wounded hunter after that.

[LeadOperator]

Feral hogs are gettin to be quite a problem in several areas of the country. They're pretty thick around here.
Whoever said something about climbing a tree to get away from them wasn't kidding.
Problem is, they're real smart...smarter than your average dog.
You go up a tree...you better be prepared to spend some time up there...they won't go away soon.
I was fishing in a large stock pond in SE Oklahoma with a buddy once. We were big ol' teenage boys, ten feet tall & bullet proof. We were using tube floats, havin a big time.
A herd of hogs showed up & we started making our way slowly to the opposite bank. A couple of smart alek pigs figgered out what we were doin & ambled over to where we were plannin on gettin out. We ended up stranded in the water for over 8 hours, til my buddy's dad showed up in the truck with a pistol. Finally ran'em off so we could get out.
A wild pig is nothing to fool around with. A herd is even worse.

[Blueskyy]

Originally Posted by jason

They have been running pretty bad in Florida. I would like to get a hunting license for them one day.

With as many as ya'll have down there you still have to have a license? We have so many there is no license and season on them anymore. They are fair game year round.

[LeadOperator]

I'm not sure about anywhere else, but I'm pretty sure there's no season on'em here, no limit, AND I believe just recently it was made OK to hunt them at night, either spotlighting them or using night-vision.

[jason]

Originally Posted by LeadOperator

I'm not sure about anywhere else, but I'm pretty sure there's no season on'em here, no limit, AND I believe just recently it was made OK to hunt them at night, either spotlighting them or using night-vision.

I may be mistaken, CozInCowtown my wish to chime in on this, but I believe in TX you can hunt at night. I was just talking with someone when I was there who said they hunt them from around now until July 5-6 times a week at night. He donates some to local food shelters, and sells the others for around $1.50 a pound. He said they average 3-5 a night too on I think it was 50 acres of private land.