I agree. I’ve never been charged by one, but while at Boar Creek Ranch (a weekend hog hunting lease), the owner and another hunter were charged by a big boar while on a night stalk hunt. The boar took 13 or so shots during the attack before it finally expired. The owner came back to camp later that night bleeding and still high on adrenaline to tell us what happened.Lynyrd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:45 amThat'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 11:38 amI 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.Lynyrd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:33 amRunning 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.
Anyway, what a tragedy about the woman who was killed just outside her home. Sounds like these incidences may increase as hog and human populations grow.