by BigDog58 on Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:59 am
In my more Youthful days, I hunted wild hogs in the Everglades. We used dogs and hunted from either an airboat or swamp buggy. We would wait until the dogs had them corned and "stretched out" (one dog on the front, one dog on the back end. We then used a Bowie knife and stabbed them through their side, into the heart. As I got older, fatter and slower I stopped the stupidity and only hunted with a gun after my neighbors incident (read below).
If they got away from the dogs and ran out the other side of the "head" (little islands in the swamp) we would shoot them. I usually used a 30/06, and it usually dropped them in their tracks. A good friend used his dads 30-Carbine (his dad handloaded) and it worked, but not as well as the 30/06. Another buddy used a lever action 30-30 and it performed well.
My next door neighbor was into primitive weapons, such as black powder guns, throwing axes, recurve bows etc.. He was about 6'3" and around 250-275 lbs. He got the idea that he would get off his airboat and go into the "head" with just his recurve bow. He shot a big boar with an arrow and as it began running, it circled back and ran toward him. He tried climbing one of the small trees on the head, and the limb he grabbed broke, and when he hit the ground, the boar hooked him at his ankle with it's tusk. Luckily, his buddy heard the screams and ran in to help.
They said the boar tossed this Big Man over 6' in the air and opened his leg up from his ankle to his hip. His buddy had a .45 and got a shot into the pigs head and dropped it before it could attack again. They used a radio to contact a ranger station, and they flew in a Coast Guard helicopter to fly him to a hospital. The neighbor ended up with nearly 500 stitches, internal and external, and he was out of work nearly a year afterward. He never hunted wild pigs with his recurve again.
Use enough gun to get the job done. Especially, if you are going to be on the ground with them.
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