From: jgharris01
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Date: 31-Mar-15 |
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I have permission to hunt a 5 acre parcel of land that a coworker owns. Across the fence to the north is about 2,000 acres.The 5 acre property is longer north to south and at my house an Easterly wind was blowing so I decided to drive the 30 minutes to go on a evening hunt. By the time I got there the wind was blowing more to the South and I hoped to see game.
I made a few shots with my ace hex blunt tipped cedars and everything looked good. I tiptoed to the back of the property slowly ghosting down the old road that goes through the Melaleuca forest. The owner used to have feeder set up and I hoped to catch a racoon or smaller pig feeding and get a shot at one but the feeder was gone and I continued my stillhunt to the back fence at this point just enjoying the evening air and the beautiful scenery. I crested a small hill at the back of property and from my 6' vantage point over the rest of the land to the North I took in the view.
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 31-Mar-15 |
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After standing there for probably 2-3 minutes I catch movement to my right very close to me. I expected it to be a nearby farmers dog or something but imagine my surprise when I see it is a boar. A large boar! It came trotting by probably no more than 30ft from me. I had the wind and I was stock still with brush all around me so I bet it never smelled/heard/saw me. I clearly saw the lip curl and the ivory sticking out prominently from its mouth. I remember thinking several things: 1. I hope it doesn't see me 2. I hope it doesn't turn and come up the game trail I was standing on and 3. OMG I am screwed if he sees me!!! This boar looked like Bad Bad Leroy Brown and definitely looked like a warrior. He was also alone. I stood there for another 5 minutes trying to calm down after he trotted past me.
So the question is: How many of you hog slayers have had run ins with big pigs (150+)? You know, the pigs that see you and instead of swapping rooter for tooter and taking off scared for their lives look at you and dare you to piss them off.... I have had several large pigs within bow range before but that was before I started hunting solely with my Tembo.
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From: pdk25
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Date: 31-Mar-15 |
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I have had large boar square off at me when I startled them, clacking their teeth at me. Eventually they run off. I don't understand. He was 30 feet way? Weren't you hunting? Not sure why you didn't sling an arrow.
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 31-Mar-15 |
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I was hunting but he was across the property line and in Florida that is a no-no and a 3rd degree felony.
Most of my hunting in the past has been with a firearm (shotgun) and that pig would be down where he stood if used my old Browning...
This boar just gave me the willies. He came and went within 10 seconds as he trotted by. I was actually looking out over the lowlands for the Sandhill cranes I heard earlier.
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From: pdk25
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Date: 31-Mar-15 |
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Gotcha. Didn't realize he wasn't on the property that you were hunting.
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 31-Mar-15 |
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It was a fun evening. I never felt so vulnerable as I did tonight, even with a big knife on my belt... I may go again Saturday evening and I hope I can find some of that boar's children to stick.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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It's Amazing how solid a hog is. Though i don't have the option of hunting them here in PA. Growing up in a farming setting and working and living on farms when i was younger.
We had a old grumpy duroc Boar probably went 600lbs or better. He used to clack his jawls, and get all foamed and slobbered up when you were outside his pen. He'd pace back and forth just wishing he could get out and get a piece of ya.
He ran me out of his his pen on numerous occasions.
It would be a toss up which i think was worse. A nasty big boar, or a nasty bull. Either one can do a lot of damage if they corner you.
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From: DaGunz
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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Several years ago, returning from a stumping expedition, running late, needing to pick up my daughter, I was walking quickly down a gravel logging road. No semblance of stealth whatsoever.
A large sounder of hogs burst out of the brush on the left side of the road, and I don't know who was more concerned, me or them. There must have been 25 or 30 of them, from larger (not LARGE, but not small) adults to a mess of piglets.
We looked at each other for a few seconds till they spooked, half ran across the road and the others went back into the brush. I had the same thought, "I am dead meat if they decide to do something".
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From: Tom McCool
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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Sounds like the "Thrill of the hunt" stuff going on there. Hunting should have some Goosebumps! We never want to loose it completely. Its what keeps us going back. :)
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I sure wish I had some pictures of some of the boars we had when I was a kid. One was over 600 pounds and had over 3 inch tusks. As kids we used to ride them like pony's. Tame as kittens.
Amazing how different from the "wild" ones.
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From: Stick in TN
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I took a trip to Texas to hunt Javalina about 12 years ago. Last evening of the hunt I get a shot at a hog. I missed just over him and when the arrow hit the ground on the other side sparks flew and the hog came straight at me. Looking back it's obvious that the hog was running away from the sparks and noise of the arrow but when you're standing there with no trees to climb it's a full on mouth open slobber flinging I'm gonna kill you charge. I guess the fight or flight in me kicked in because I reloaded faster than Lars Anderson and busted that pig on a dead run from about 5 feet. Not a big boar. Probably 100-125 lbs but all the excitement I needed.
Hopefully Kingwouldbe will kick in some of his stories. I've never laughed so hard as when I read one about him pulling up his skirt and running away like a little girl.
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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It definitely made me aware that I wasn't top of food cbain out in the bushes armed with just stick and string... It also made me doubt my 52# Tembo and 500 grain arrows and file sharpened ribtek. Made me wish I had a Kingwouldbe/ rik hinton set up...
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From: fdp
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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Never been spooked by one, but I do get an adrenaline rush when they get that close. I've hunted 'em off and for 30+ years (I grew up in the Yegua bottoms of Texas) and never had one attack me. I have had them attack dogs though.
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From: Fuzzy
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I've had 'em bluff me, never really been spooked, maybe I ain't smart enough to be.
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From: pdk25
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I think I am a dumb one, too, Fuzzy. For me, it is the same with hogs as when I had Water Buffalo squared up at 7 yards. Single-minded. Just looking to get my shot off, lol.
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From: pdk25
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I think I am a dumb one, too, Fuzzy. For me, it is the same with hogs as when I had Water Buffalo squared up at 7 yards. Single-minded. Just looking to get my shot off, lol.
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From: Sawtooth
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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The last big boar I shot made me put both my hands around a fence post- sized persimmon tree that I fully intended to ascend. He turned before he got to me and then went down within sight. It'll get your heart pumping. I've never been charged full on, but a big ole stinky wild boar certainly has the tools and the temperament to hurt you if he so chooses. I respect that.
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From: Fuzzy
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I woulda probably tried to provoke a charge to get him over the line...lol
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From: GF
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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So did you have any broadheads with you? Or just the hex?
I think I would've been pretty keyed up, but probably more so armed only with blunts....
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From: fdp
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I'm not sure that hogs and Water Buffalo deserve to be in the same discussion do they??? Not sure I'd be so calm 20ft. from a Water Buffalo.
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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No but I guess if pdk25 is cool and collected at 7 yards from a water buffalo giving him a death stare getting within kissing distance from a boar ain't nothing. I stillhunted through the property with a ribtek tipped cedar on the string and took it off when I got to the back fence. No permission to hunt it yet... All my broad heads were tucked safely in my arrowmaster when I got surprised.
I need to take some vacation and go up to Georgia and become an apprentice of Robert Carter. I'll be a SW Florida swamp terror in short order under his tutelage....
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From: pdk25
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I guess it's not exactly the same, but some similarities. Both could kill you if that was what they had a mind to do. Both, given half a chance, want nothing more than to get out of there as long as you don't do something to aggressive.
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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Totally agree pdk. I grew up on a farm with horses and cattle and have gotten bluff charged and fully charged by cows guarding calves, cantankerous Bulls and steers. Mostly Angus or Brahman or some mix. They don't play...
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From: DixieBow
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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We have tons of pigs in the Ms delta. I've had them all sizes as close as 10' feet from me. I can't ever remember a time that I was worried about being attacked by a hog. Any hog that ever knew I was there wanted nothing to do with me. They are very very spooky when it comes to people here. Probaly because they get hunted down here so much. I wouldn't worry about a hog. A grizzly, water buffalo,moose, ide worry about.
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From: N. Y. Yankee
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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Another good reason to carry a 10mm auto. I would've pulled the gat and swatted 'im right in the short ribs. 2 or three times. Then if he does turn on you, you still have 5 more shots.
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From: Hoyt
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I've grabbed a lot of trees after shooting hogs with arrows and bullets. But the scariest time was in 1964 when hunting Fl. Stewart in Ga.
It was just about dark and I was walking out on a fire-break when I see the biggest hog I've ever seen walking almost straight towards me. It was so big I almost didn't shoot and I had a 12ga. with slugs.
I aimed right behind it's shoulder as it turned a little at about 20yds. Unloaded the gun on it hitting him all three times and he just keeps coming at a trot right at me. I grab the only tree available, a small scrub oak sapling and somehow climb about head high while holding onto the shotgun.
The sapling is so small it slowly bows over to where my head and back is only about 3' off the ground and the hog just trots right on past me never paying me any mind.
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From: pdk25
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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Honestly, I have been up close to a decent number of very large hogs. The most they have done is hop up and down, clack the teeth, and run a few feet at you. Unless you are running after a sow with piglets, pressuring a wounded hog, or running them with dogs, I would be real surprised if they pushed the issue. Better to forget about it and for an angle to put the broadhead in the vitals.
P.S. It can be awesome to be in the middle of a sounder when the boars are fighting over a hot sow. They don't sit still as long as you would like, but the noise will raise the hair on the back of your neck.
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From: jgharris01
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Date: 01-Apr-15 |
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I can't wait to go again, I am gonna have to man up and get on em. Once I get this licensing exam over with on the 17th I will have more time to devote to pig chasing after work.....
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