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Post by 45MAN on Feb 27, 2023 7:38:26 GMT -5
SOME CHARGES ARE JUST AN ANIMAL TYRING TO HAUL ASS AND MANY TIMES IT IS A WOUNDED ANIMAL, BUT EVEN INCIDENTAL CHARGES CAN HAVE SEIOUS CONSEQUENCES.
YESTERDAY A FRIEND REMINDED ME ABOUT A LARGE BOAR HOG I SHOT AT MY RANCH WITH A SAVAGEE 99 IN 22 SAVAGE HIGH POWER. WHEN WE WENT UP TO IT WAS DOWN BUT WAS STILL ALIVE AND, ACCORDING TO MY FRIENDS's MEMORY, TRIED TO LUNGE AT ME OR ATTACK ME OR SOMETHING. THE EVENT IMPRESSED HIM MORE THAN ME, BEST AS I CAN RECALL HE WAS ANCHORED TO THE GROUND BUT HE WAS STILL AGGRESSIVE.
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Post by bula on Feb 27, 2023 8:57:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder. Likely everyone here knows to approach seemingly downed game, ready to shoot again , from behind, outta sight. I'll add, and maybe shared before. Late '80's , worked 2nd shift and came home loaded '86 Bronco with wife, Britt and bird guns and gear for a Va quail hunt with family. Like 3 miles from home thumped a deer and it went down. We were ok, some load shiftage. Got out and walked around to deer and saw eyes clenched tight shut. Uh oh, walked around back and put dog on short line attached to vehicle and dug out the tire iron. Upon approaching for final whack, it jumped up and scared me to bleep ! It staggered a few feet and dropped , now truly dead. Whacked it anyway. I dragged it off the road and over the lip of swale, kinda outta sight. Went back home and called Game Warden for a recovery type tag and them my Va fam and told them there wouldn't be room in freezer for quail, trip cancelled. Unload vehicle and went and got that deer. Hung from clotheline post and gutted into a garbage can. Went to bed. Autopsy, gutting, showed what was likely the license plate holder had punched a couple ribs thru lung, and head had hit hood edge. So unconscious and bleeding internally. Came "awake" and staggered a few feet and then down from blood loss. My next attempt to go hunt quail also a bust. Family in Va called me and said they had 3" of snow and no hunting of small game if snow on ground. As a snow belt person, that's just crazy, but I don't make the laws.
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Post by LeverGunner on Mar 13, 2023 15:00:45 GMT -5
Yep, we have domestic hogs (Mangalitsa) and I saw them catch a chicken and scarf it down in a matter of 20-30 seconds Yep had a hog that we were raising and we started knockin old roosters in the head and feeding him. But after awhile he would sit in one corner of the pen and watch his corn and goatmilk we were feeding him. When a chicken wondered in and started eating he would pounce like a cat. He was 300 lbs and could clear 8-10 feet across the pen and snatch a chicken. The worst part was the cruching sound. Once he did that a time or two he got the ol brain scrambled with a 357. Heard once they had a taste for blood they could smell it through your skin. Not one I would like wondering around. Wow, I had no idea hogs would do that. Thanks for sharing. I knew hogs would eat whatever they could get betwixt their jowls, but I've never heard of them killing other critters for the purpose. |
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Post by iwsbull on Mar 13, 2023 16:02:35 GMT -5
Way too many years ago when I was in middle school we had a high school boys dad suffer a heart attack while feeding the hogs they had. He fell and the slop he was toting spilled and he was in it and the hogs fed on him as well. It was never disclosed whether the heart attack was fatal or the hogs dealt the fatality. Regardless he died and was fed upon.
I had forgotten about that until this post jarred that memory.
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Post by tja6435 on May 23, 2023 10:12:28 GMT -5
Yep had a hog that we were raising and we started knockin old roosters in the head and feeding him. But after awhile he would sit in one corner of the pen and watch his corn and goatmilk we were feeding him. When a chicken wondered in and started eating he would pounce like a cat. He was 300 lbs and could clear 8-10 feet across the pen and snatch a chicken. The worst part was the cruching sound. Once he did that a time or two he got the ol brain scrambled with a 357. Heard once they had a taste for blood they could smell it through your skin. Not one I would like wondering around. Wow, I had no idea hogs would do that. Thanks for sharing. I knew hogs would eat whatever they could get betwixt their jowls, but I've never heard of them killing other critters for the purpose. You should see what large hogs will do if a cow gets into their fence. I had it happen one time at the neighbor’s place down the road where we had our hogs in with theirs. A cow got through the barbed wire/electric fence somehow to get to their water, the hogs would have none of it. They’d run that cow around the field (2 acres or so) until we could finally get the cow out of the gate. I think they were running it to exhaustion and then it would’ve been feast time. 11x 400+ pound hogs could eat a cow pretty quick. I also saw those same hogs when little (80lb or so) go after a dog that thought it was going to chase the pigs around, they all turned around and in a V formation ran directly after the dog, which fortunately got through the fence before the pigs got it. My Great Pyrenees make zero effort to get into the pig fence when I have the gate open, they’re smarter than the pit bull/boxer mix (not my dog) that was almost pig food. Had a neighbor’s bull get into our perimeter fence and try to get into our pig fence to get some water (we live in the high desert and there’s frequently zero water for open grazed cattle), we have 22 Mangalitsa pigs currently; they were all lined up at the fence telling that bull that wasn’t his water and if he got in, they’d make a mess of him. Big pigs ain’t scurd, a big enough group of small pigs ain’t scurd either, especially when threatened on their home turf. |
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Post by Fowler on May 23, 2023 11:41:11 GMT -5
I saw a unfortunate photo the other day from Ukraine where a dead Russian solder had succumbed in a pig pen and the herd of pigs had been feasting on him for a while. It was a bit grisly for sure but the pigs were sure happy.
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Post by LeverGunner on May 23, 2023 12:38:52 GMT -5
Wow, I had no idea hogs would do that. Thanks for sharing. I knew hogs would eat whatever they could get betwixt their jowls, but I've never heard of them killing other critters for the purpose. You should see what large hogs will do if a cow gets into their fence. I had it happen one time at the neighbor’s place down the road where we had our hogs in with theirs. A cow got through the barbed wire/electric fence somehow to get to their water, the hogs would have none of it. They’d run that cow around the field (2 acres or so) until we could finally get the cow out of the gate. I think they were running it to exhaustion and then it would’ve been feast time. 11x 400+ pound hogs could eat a cow pretty quick. I also saw those same hogs when little (80lb or so) go after a dog that thought it was going to chase the pigs around, they all turned around and in a V formation ran directly after the dog, which fortunately got through the fence before the pigs got it. My Great Pyrenees make zero effort to get into the pig fence when I have the gate open, they’re smarter than the pit bull/boxer mix (not my dog) that was almost pig food. Had a neighbor’s bull get into our perimeter fence and try to get into our pig fence to get some water (we live in the high desert and there’s frequently zero water for open grazed cattle), we have 22 Mangalitsa pigs currently; they were all lined up at the fence telling that bull that wasn’t his water and if he got in, they’d make a mess of him. Big pigs ain’t scurd, a big enough group of small pigs ain’t scurd either, especially when threatened on their home turf. Wow, thank you for sharing. That is crazy. I raised a pig once. She had a personality like a dog and was a pet. Much different than the pigs you describe. I have a boxer/pit mix...and I will attest to the fact that she is senseless. |
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Post by bamagreg on May 23, 2023 15:28:53 GMT -5
I have a buddy who has tried to manage hogs on his Texas property for years. He shoots and leaves an awful lot of them every year, has all the pork in the freezer he cares for and can always get more. But he told me a carcass never lasts more than a few days before the other pigs make them disappear completely. Commented one time you could make a body vanish pretty easily if the need should arise… I just finished watching the "Deadwood" series. They disposed of a lot of bodies by feeding them to hogs! |
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Post by 45MAN on May 23, 2023 18:01:02 GMT -5
WAS WATCHING A LATE 1900's, MAYE EARLY 2000's, MOVIE THE OTHER DAY, MAYBE IT WAS "ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE" AND IN ONE SCENE WHAN ASKED WHERE SOMEBODY WAS THE FRUSTRATED RESPONDER ANSWERED SOMETHING LIKE: THE HOGS ATE HER WHEN SHE WENT TO THE OUTHOUSE.
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