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anygunanywhere wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:49 pm

Lynyrd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:17 pm

anygunanywhere wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:34 pm I had a wounded sow charge me first time I was hog hunting. Killed her with my 44 mag revolver before she got me but she dropped 4 feet in front of me. My last shot was angled down and split her spine between the shoulders.

I don't shoot pigs while I am on the ground any more. Once was enough.

She probably had a litter of piglets nearby. Sows will attack at the drop of a hat if they think their piglets are threatened.

We never saw any piglets. She was in an open pasture. I stalked up on her. Several other sows turned and ran. She turned towards me and charged. My BIL and oldest son were with me.

Did the old ticker speed up?

anygunanywhere wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:34 pm I had a wounded sow charge me first time I was hog hunting. Killed her with my 44 mag revolver before she got me but she dropped 4 feet in front of me. My last shot was angled down and split her spine between the shoulders.

I don't shoot pigs while I am on the ground any more. Once was enough.

She probably had a litter of piglets nearby. Sows will attack at the drop of a hat if they think their piglets are threatened.

dlh wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:38 am

Lynyrd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:33 am

dlh wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:14 am Rural folks should be packing when they go outside.
Feral hogs will run away like you know what when you open up on them.
Your odds of being attacked are certainly low but always best to be prepared.

Running away when shot at is true ALMOST all of the time. I have personally witnessed one 300 lb boar that charged from 50 yards away once he located the source of the gunshot, and his pain. Big boars are fearless. The only natural predator that has a chance against them is a cougar.

I have shot into wild hogs about a dozen times. Never had one charge me. Never could get off a second shot as they ran into the brush too fast. Course, I was sitting in the safety of my Ford F-150 pickup.

That's the norm. I just wanted to point out that there are exceptions. They are rare, but it does happen. Big lone boars by themselves act different than a bunch of sows and their pigs. And sometimes, on rare occasions, they just get mad when you shoot them and run at you instead of away.

dlh wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:14 am Rural folks should be packing when they go outside.
Feral hogs will run away like you know what when you open up on them.
Your odds of being attacked are certainly low but always best to be prepared.

Running away when shot at is true ALMOST all of the time. I have personally witnessed one 300 lb boar that charged from 50 yards away once he located the source of the gunshot, and his pain. Big boars are fearless. The only natural predator that has a chance against them is a cougar.

I've been around a lot of hogs. I've trapped a few hundred of them, and hunted a killed a lot more. It does not surprise me that this happened. The hog population is growing, and they are moving closer and closer to residential areas in their search for food. I have a friend who took video of hogs destroying lawns in a subdivision in Tyler with million dollar homes. He couldn't shoot because of city ordinance.

I think events of feral hog and human interaction are going to become more frequent in the coming years.